By this time, the group had broadened its interests to campaign on a wide range of feminist issues.
[1] This suffrage offshoot had been founded by Dr Elizabeth Knight and Alice Green.
The club was used for meetings but also acted as a hostel for suffrage activists and fund-raising annual birthday parties were organised[2] for Charlotte Despard.
She also came to know many other residents of the area, and during World War II she founded the London Emergency Apartment Keepers' Society (LEAKS) to support the many local owners of boarding houses and hotels.
[1] Reeves served on the national executive of the WFL for many years, and eventually became the organisation's president.