Champernowne Trust

The Champernowne Trust is a mental health and educational charity, founded in 1969 by the late Irene Champernowne. It was established to promote psychological health through Jungian psychotherapy and the creative arts, building on the pioneering work of the Withymead Community which ran from the 1940s-1960s. The Trust’s principal objectives are: 1. To advance education through the provision of courses, conferences, workshops, lectures and information for members of the medical, educational, psychotherapeutic and psychological professions, with the purpose of improving public mental health. To promote the ideas of CG Jung through proven and evaluated methods, with the purpose of enhancing skills and knowledge and the practice of creative and psychological therapies. To promote and protect the health of those in need of psychotherapy through the provision of financial support to those who, through lack of financial means, would otherwise be unable to avail themselves of such treatment, with the purpose of improving their mental, physical and spiritual health. The purpose of the Trust’s summer course is to provide those working in the helping professions with a time of professional and personal restoration, an opportunity to restock mentally and spiritually, with the ultimate aim of enriching and enhancing their therapeutic practice to the benefit of users of their services. CPD certificates are provided on completion of the course.