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Fairbridge Society
Fairbridge may refer to: ;Charities *Fairbridge Charity, Fairbridge, a UK-based charitable organisation supporting disadvantaged children *Fairbridge Western Australia Inc., an Australian youth charity that operates Fairbridge Village in Western Australia ;People *Kingsley Fairbridge, South Africa born educator *Rhodes Fairbridge, geologist and son of Kingsley Fairbridge ;Places *Fairbridge, Western Australia, Fairbridge, a locality in the Australian state of Western Australia ;Other *Fairbridge Festival, an annual music festival {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbridge Charity
Fairbridge was a UK Charitable organization, charity that supported young people aged 13–25 from 1987. Each year it supported around 3,700 disengaged young people who were either not in education, employment or training – or at risk of becoming so – at one of its fifteen centres on the country. In January 2011 it was announced that Fairbridge would become part of The Prince's Trust. History Fairbridge is the result of the merging of two organisations, the Drake Fellowship and the Fairbridge Society. The Fairbridge Society was established in 1909 by Kingsley Fairbridge. Moved by the levels of deprivation he saw in inner city areas of England, he established a charity to offer opportunities and education abroad to young people from broken homes. Currently (2017) ThIndependent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA ) in full public hearings, is investigating the sexual abuse of children who were removed from British institutions and families between 1947 and the 70s, and taken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbridge Village
Fairbridge, Western Australia is a former farm school near Pinjarra in Southwest Western Australia. It is now used predominantly for education, school and community camps and tourism purposes. History On 15 April 1912, Kingsley Fairbridge and his wife, Ruby Fairbridge, arrived in Albany, Western Australia, from England and made their way to Pinjarra, arriving on 16 July that same year to establish the world's first Fairbridge Farm School. The school opened on 19 October 1912. Kingsley wanted to see "little children shedding the bondage of unfortunate circumstances and stretching their legs and minds amid the thousand interests of the farm." Child migration From 1913 to 1982, Fairbridge Farm School was home to a total of 3,580 children who came to Fairbridge under various child migration schemes. The school provided education in task-learning, husbandry, metal work and wood work. During World War II, Dutch refugee children evacuated from Indonesia were based at Fairbrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kingsley Fairbridge
Kingsley Ogilvie Fairbridge (5 May 1885 – 19 July 1924) was the founder of a child migration, child emigration scheme from Britain to British Empire, its colonies and the Fairbridge Schools. His life work was the founding of the "Society for the Furtherance of Child Emigration to the Colonies", which was afterwards incorporated as the "Child Emigration Society" and ultimately the "Fairbridge Society". Early life Fairbridge was born in Grahamstown, Cape Colony, and educated at St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown, until the age of 11, when the family moved to Rhodesia#1890.E2.80.931953, Rhodesia. His father was a surveyor in Mutare, Umtali (the present day Mutare, Zimbabwe) He had no further schooling until he prepared to enter Oxford University in 1908 at the age of 23. At the age of 13 he became a clerk in the Standard Bank (historic), Standard Bank of South Africa at Mutare, Umtali, and two years later, tried to enlist for the Second Boer War, Boer War, failing because of malari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodes Fairbridge
Rhodes Whitmore Fairbridge (21 May 1914 – 8 November 2006) was an Australian geologist and expert on climate change. His father was Kingsley Fairbridge. Born in Pinjarra, Western Australia, Fairbridge graduated from Queen's University in Ontario and earned his master's degree from Oxford. In 1941, he earned a doctorate in geology from the University of Western Australia. He taught at Columbia University from 1955 until his 1982 retirement. While there, he was supervising editor for the '' Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences''. In the early 1960s, he developed the so-called "Fairbridge Curve",15 October 2003 Classification of Coasts. ''Journal of Coastal Research'' pp. 155–165 a record of changes in sea levels over the last 10,000 years. In the 1980s Fairbridge wrote about climate's impact on the long-term evolution of shields and peneplains. Fairbridge died in 2006 in Amagansett, New York of a brain tumor.Pearce, Jeremy ( 27 November 2006). Rhodes W. Fairbridge, 92, Early Exper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairbridge, Western Australia
Fairbridge, Western Australia is a former farm school near Pinjarra in Southwest Western Australia. It is now used predominantly for education, school and community camps and tourism purposes. History On 15 April 1912, Kingsley Fairbridge and his wife, Ruby Fairbridge, arrived in Albany, Western Australia, from England and made their way to Pinjarra, arriving on 16 July that same year to establish the world's first Fairbridge Farm School. The school opened on 19 October 1912. Kingsley wanted to see "little children shedding the bondage of unfortunate circumstances and stretching their legs and minds amid the thousand interests of the farm." Child migration From 1913 to 1982, Fairbridge Farm School was home to a total of 3,580 children who came to Fairbridge under various child migration schemes. The school provided education in task-learning, husbandry, metal work and wood work. During World War II, Dutch refugee children evacuated from Indonesia were based at Fairbrid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
