[3] In 1919, Jowitt moved to Gateshead to oversee the newly established Bensham Grove settlement, intended to be a 'common meeting ground for men and women to learn through class study, discussions, music and fruits of Fellowship’.
[5] She believed that educational settlements should ‘seek to unsettle those who had narrow personal aims and were content with the injustices and inequalities of the social system in which they live’.
[6] Jowitt saw the challenges and significant social deprivation in Gateshead, and gathered a group of residents ('settlers') with welfare and reform in mind.
[3] In 1942, she was asked to investigate the conditions of Polish refugees in Tanganyika and Uganda, teaching and living for two years in one of the largest camps.
[3] Following the war, Jowitt worked for 18 months as general secretary of the Friends Relief Service,[3] and spoke about her experiences at various Quaker meeting houses around the country.