Hilda Jennings (1894–1978) was a British community activist, social worker, author, academic and University Settlement Warden.

Her parents were Arthur Jennings, a successful boots manufacturer and building society director, and Anne Madders, from a prominent Staffordshire farming family.

[citation needed] She attended Stafford Girls' High School and won an open scholarship[citation needed] to attend St Hilda's College, Oxford to study English, and she graduated in 1920.

[1] From there she studied at the London School of Economics,[2]: 78  gaining a Master's degree in Social Science.

In 1937 Jennings became the warden at University Settlement Barton Hill, a position she held for twenty years.