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History
The name The London Human Resources Connection was adopted in October 2003 but the history of LHRC has much earlier origins.
1921 – 1922
Records of the Welfare Workers Institute mention the London Branch. The Welfare Workers Institute became Institute of Industrial Welfare workers.
1946
Became the Institute of Personnel Management. The first recorded meeting of the Central London Group was on 7 October 1946 at Metal Box.
1965
London IPM was split into three with the Central London Group having the specific aim of ‘arranging lunchtime meetings for those who work in the middle of London’.
1994
Formation of the Institute of Personnel and Development from the merger of the IPM and the Institute of Training and Development. The lunchtime special interest group became the CIPD Capital Network.
October 2003
Following a major consultation exercise with our members we re-branded and became The London HR Connection.