The Joseph Rowntree Foundation awknowledges its colonial past and history

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty has awknowledged its colonial past and troubled history. A statement from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) Trustees and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT) Board is below: The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. It is linked through a group structure with the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT), a registered housing association and care provider. In 1904 Joseph Rowntree endowed our organisations with large shareholdings in his family’s confectionery…

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