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|Year<br />
|Organisation<br />
|Founder<br />
|Notes<br />
|-<br />
|1652<br />
|Quakers<br />
|George Fox<br />
|Religious Society of Friends<br />
|-<br />
|1660<br />
|Royal Society<br />
|Christopher Wren and others<br />
|The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge<br />
|-<br />
|1694<br />
|Bank of England<br />
|William Patterson<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1741<br />
|Foundling Hospital<br />
|Thomas Coram<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1747<br />
|The Shakers<br />
|Jane and James Wardley<br />
|Ann Lee was a member<br />
|-<br />
|1750<br />
|Jockey Club<br />
|<br />
|Founded as a high society social club<br />
|-<br />
|1753<br />
|British Museum<br />
|Hans Sloane<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1768<br />
|Royal Academy of Arts<br />
|<br />
|Founded through a personal act of King George III <br />
|-<br />
|1780<br />
|Sunday School movement<br />
|Robert Raikes<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1788<br />
|Linnean Society<br />
|<br />
|Named after the Swedish naturalist Carolus Linnaeus<br />
|-<br />
|1791<br />
|Ordnance Survey<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1799<br />
|Royal Institution<br />
|Henry Cavendish and others<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1802<br />
|United States Military Academy <br />
|Thomas Jefferson<br />
|West Point<br />
|-<br />
|1804<br />
|Royal Horticultural Society <br />
|John Wedgwood and Joseph Banks<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1823<br />
|The Lancet<br />
|Thomas Wackley<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1824<br />
|National Gallery<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1824<br />
|Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI)<br />
|William Hilary<br />
|Founded on Isle of Man<br />
|-<br />
|1828<br />
|Royal Free Hospital<br />
|Richard Marsden<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1830<br />
|The Mormons<br />
|Joseph Smith<br />
|Succeeded by Brigham Young<br />
|-<br />
|1830<br />
|Royal Geographical Society<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1843<br />
|The Economist<br />
|James Wilson<br />
|Founded to campaign against the Corn Laws<br />
|-<br />
|1844<br />
|YMCA<br />
|George Williams<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1851<br />
|Western Union<br />
|Ezra Cornell<br />
|Completed the first transcontinental telegraph line in 1861<br />
|-<br />
|1857<br />
|Alpine Club<br />
|<br />
|Probably the world's first mountaineering club<br />
|-<br />
|1859<br />
|Red Cross<br />
|Henry Dunant<br />
|After the Battle of Solferino<br />
|-<br />
|1860<br />
|Battersea Dogs Home<br />
|Mary Tealby<br />
|In 2002, name changed to 'The Battersea Dogs and Cats Home'<br />
|-<br />
|1865<br />
|Salvation Army<br />
|William Booth<br />
|Originally the East London Christian Mission<br />
|-<br />
|1865<br />
|Ku Klux Klan<br />
|<br />
|Founded in Tennessee by Confederate Army veterans<br />
|-<br />
|1866<br />
|National Secular Society<br />
|Charles Bradlaugh<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1866<br />
|Howard League for Penal Reform<br />
|John Howard<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1867<br />
|Ladybird Books<br />
|Henry Wills<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1869<br />
|Nature<br />
|Norman Lockyer<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1875<br />
|Theosophical Society <br />
|Madame Blavatsky <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1876<br />
|Mothers' Union<br />
|Mary Sumner<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1879<br />
|Christian Scientists<br />
|Mary Baker Eddy<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1881<br />
|American Red Cross<br />
|Clara Barton<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1882<br />
|Church Army<br />
|Wilson Carlile<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1883<br />
|Boys Brigade<br />
|William Smith<br />
|Motto - "sure and steadfast"<br />
|-<br />
|1884<br />
|Fabian Society<br />
|<br />
|Named in honour of the Roman general Fabius Maximus <br />
|-<br />
|1891<br />
|Crufts<br />
|Charles Cruft<br />
|Best in Show was first awarded in 1928<br />
|-<br />
|1891<br />
|National Canine Defence League<br />
|<br />
|Now known as Dogs Trust<br />
|-<br />
|1897<br />
|Women's Institute<br />
|Adelaide Hoodless<br />
|Founded in Stoney Creek, Canada. First UK meeting in 1915<br />
|-<br />
|1897<br />
|World Zionist Organisation<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1897<br />
|National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies <br />
|Millicent Fawcett<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1897<br />
|Royal Automobile Club (RAC)<br />
|<br />
|Oldest motoring organisation in UK<br />
|-<br />
|1903<br />
|Automobile Association (AA)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1903<br />
|Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) <br />
|Emmeline Pankhurst<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1904<br />
|Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)<br />
|Herbert Beerbohm Tree <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1905<br />
|Rotary Club<br />
|<br />
|Founded in Chicago<br />
|-<br />
|1905<br />
|Magic Circle<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1908<br />
|Mills & Boon<br />
|Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1909<br />
|National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1912<br />
|Calgary Stampde<br />
|Guy Weadick <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1912<br />
|Girl Scouts of the USA<br />
|Juliette Gordon Low <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1913<br />
|New Statesman<br />
|Sidney and Beatrice Webb<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1916<br />
|Paramount Pictures<br />
|Adolph Zukor and Jesse Lasky<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1917<br />
|People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA)<br />
|Maria Dickin<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1917<br />
|Hogarth Press<br />
|Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1919<br />
|Save the Children<br />
|Eglantyne Jebb<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1919<br />
|United Artists<br />
|Chaplin, Fairbanks, Pickford and Griffith<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1921<br />
|British Legion<br />
|Earl Haig and others<br />
|Granted a Royal Charter in 1971<br />
|-<br />
|1922<br />
|Reader's Digest<br />
|Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1922<br />
|Transport and General Workers’ Union <br />
|<br />
|Merged with Amicus to form Unite in 2007<br />
|-<br />
|1923<br />
|Warner Brothers<br />
|Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack Warner<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1923<br />
|Interpol<br />
|<br />
|Founded in Austria as the International Criminal Police (ICP)<br />
|-<br />
|1928<br />
|Flying Doctor Service<br />
|John Flynn<br />
|Founded in Queensland<br />
|-<br />
|1928<br />
|Muslim Brotherhood<br />
|Hassan al-Banna <br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1928<br />
|Opus Dei<br />
|Josemaría Escriva de Balaguer<br />
|Founded in Madrid<br />
|-<br />
|1934<br />
|British Council<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1934<br />
|Hammer Film Productions <br />
|William Hinds<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1934<br />
|National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL)<br />
|<br />
|Changed its name to "Liberty" in 1989<br />
|-<br />
|1935<br />
|Alcoholics Anonymous<br />
|Bill Wilson and Bob Smith <br />
|Founded in Akron, Ohio<br />
|-<br />
|1935<br />
|American Institute of Public Opinion <br />
|George Gallup<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1935<br />
|Ramblers’ Association<br />
|TA Leonard<br />
|Rebranded as the "Ramblers" in 2009<br />
|-<br />
|1946<br />
|Mensa<br />
|Roland Berrill and Lancelot Ware<br />
|At Lincoln College Oxford<br />
|-<br />
|1950<br />
|Missionaries of Charity <br />
|Mother Teresa<br />
|Headquarters in Kolkata<br />
|-<br />
|1951<br />
|War on Want<br />
|<br />
|Motto - "Poverty is Political"<br />
|-<br />
|1953<br />
|The Samaritians<br />
|Chad Varah<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1955<br />
|Black Sash<br />
|Jean Sinclair<br />
|White women's resistance organization in South Africa<br />
|-<br />
|1955<br />
|Institute of Economic Affairs <br />
|<br />
|Think tank<br />
|-<br />
|1957<br />
|White Defence League <br />
|Colin Jordan<br />
|Dissolved in 1960<br />
|-<br />
|1957<br />
|Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) <br />
|<br />
|Bertrand Russell was the first President<br />
|-<br />
|1961<br />
|Monday Club<br />
|<br />
|Founded by four young Conservative Party members<br />
|-<br />
|1961<br />
|Amnesty International<br />
|Peter Benenson<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1961<br />
|World Wildlife Fund<br />
|<br />
|Changed its name to World Wide Fund for Nature in 1986<br />
|-<br />
|1964<br />
|Organization of Afro-American Unity <br />
|Malcolm X<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1965<br />
|Confederation of British Industry (CBI) <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1965<br />
|National Viewers' and Listeners' Association (NVLA) <br />
|Mary Whitehouse<br />
|Now known as Mediawatch-uk<br />
|-<br />
|1965<br />
|The Landmark Trust <br />
|John Smith<br />
|Building preservation charity<br />
|-<br />
|1966<br />
|Black Panthers<br />
|Huey Newton and Bobby Seale<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1967<br />
|Hospice movement<br />
|Cecily Saunders <br />
|St Christopher’s Hospice<br />
|-<br />
|1969<br />
|Friends of the Earth<br />
|David Brower<br />
|Motto - "Think globally, act locally"<br />
|-<br />
|1971<br />
|Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA)<br />
|<br />
|Founded in Ireland<br />
|-<br />
|1971<br />
|Greenpeace<br />
|Bob Hunter<br />
|Founded in Vancouver<br />
|-<br />
|1971<br />
|Médecins Sans Frontières <br />
|Bernard Kouchner and others<br />
|Formed as an aftermath of the Biafra secession<br />
|-<br />
|1977<br />
|Sea Shepherd Conservation Society <br />
|Paul Watson<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1979<br />
|Inamrsat<br />
|<br />
|Founded as the International Maritime Satellite Organization<br />
|-<br />
|1984<br />
|Cirque de Soleil<br />
|Guy Laliberte<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|1985<br />
|COTS (Childlessness Overcome Through Surrogacy)<br />
|Kim Cotton<br />
|Britain’s first surrogate mother<br />
|-<br />
|2003<br />
|Fathers 4 Justice <br />
|Matt O'Connor<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
|2005<br />
|Plane Stupid<br />
|<br />
|Want to see an end to airport expansion<br />
|-<br />
|2007<br />
|Help for Heroes<br />
|Bryn and Emma Parry <br />
|<br />
|}</div>
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