[1] The organisation was headquartered in Briarsend, at the end of Briar Street in the Saint Clair district, and held fundraising events to raise money for improvement projects.
[5] One of the few exceptions was Afro- and Indo-Trinidadian, social worker and Coterie member, Gema Ramkeesoon, who campaigned for cooperation among various ethnic groups, as well as against shadism.
[6][7] In addition to providing homes for the blind and elderly,[8] the Coterie pressed for higher education for girls and employment opportunities for middle class women.
[12] The conference was notable in that it did not allow men to speak throughout the majority of the sessions[10][13] and that Jeffers emphasized that the government was failing in its obligation to address the needs of citizens.
[17] In 1940, the Coterie opened its first day nursery, called Cipriani House, in Laventille [4] and In the 1940s and 1950s, working with the Child Welfare League, the Day Nursery Association, the League of Women Voters and the Union of Women Citizens, the Coterie instigated the establishment of National Health Centers.
[18] The organisational headquarters is now located at 3 Longden Street in Port of Spain and celebrated its 85th year of operation in 2007[19] at which time, complaints surfaced that the house at 22 Sweet Briar Road, the original site of the Coterie, was in disrepair.