Root and Branch Exhibition at John Wesley's Chapel

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This was a world where there was desperate poverty and hardship endured by many. Early work undertaken by missionaries included setting up jobs, accommodation and opportunities. Some of the tales are heart-breaking – a boy turned out onto the streets after his father sold his boots to buy beer. But there was hope!

Many were placed on farms and elsewhere and learned skills including poultry, pig and cattle farming as well as trades.

The exhibition is also about the professionalism of the present day Probation Service, which employs 19,000 people in England and Wales, managing almost a quarter of a million people on probation.

In this new touring exhibition from Englesea Brook Chapel and Museum, you'll learn the origins of the Probation Service and how early Christian values and principles behind the work would go on to be rolled out across the world.