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Ada Salter 1

Ada Salter 1

The Ada Salter 1 room is located on the ground floor. The room offers various layouts, with a maximum capacity of 30 delegates in theatre style.

  • Ground floor
  • Step-free access
  • Air-conditioned
  • Natural daylight

All of our meeting rooms include complimentary Wi-Fi access, conference notepads and pens for each delegate*, stationery box, and flipchart pad.

*As part of our commitment to being a sustainable venue, these will be provided on request.

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Capacity 30
Theatre / Lecture
Capacity 12
Boardroom
Capacity 16
Hollow boardroom
Capacity 16
U-shape boardroom
Capacity 19
Classroom
Capacity 20
Circle of chairs

Ada Salter was born in Raunds, Northamptonshire, to Samuel and Sarah Brown, both Methodists.

Young Ada Brown was very active in politics and social justice work. She did missionary work in London slums, firstly here in Euston with the West London Mission who worked with the poor of St Pancras, and then in Bermondsey.

She married Alfred Salter, a doctor, in 1900. They became Quakers, attending Deptford Meeting. Ada was a social worker in the Bermondsey Settlement. In 1909 she was elected to the borough council for the Independent Labour Party becoming one of the first woman councillors in London, then the first woman mayor in London and the first woman Labour mayor in Britain.

She was a leader of the trade union movement for women and influenced the Bermondsey Uprising of 1911, when 14,000 women successfully went on strike for better conditions.

Ada and Alfred Salter were pacifists and Ada was involved in international peace and socialist movements. She campaigned to improve housing for the poor in inner-city London, and to improve communal parks. She was one of the main drivers behind the concept of a green belt for London, securing this in law in 1938.

Statues of Ada and Alfred stand in the Ada Salter garden in Bermondsey today and there is an annual Ada Salter Lecture organised by the Quaker Socialist Society.

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