Donate online via justgiving.com

The Human Givens Foundation is now listed on justgiving.com, and can accept donations or membership fees online. If you have a fundraising idea, you can also list the Foundation as a beneficiary by creating your own fundraising page. Please contact the Charity Secretary if you have any ideas or need support.

Foundation to Fund Bursaries for Schools and Local Councils to Train in Human Givens Parenting Programme

The Foundation is now accepting applications from schools, local councils and charitable organisations involved in parenting and children's programmes who wish to introduce the "Just What We Need" programme for parents.

"Just What We Need" is now listed on the Commissioning Toolkit of the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, and the programme's leaders and facilitators have attended a training course accredited at Level 3 by the Open College Network.

Enquiries should be directed to the Charity Secretary.

Foundation Completes Research funded by Cheadle Royal Hospital (CRH) Charitable Trust

The Human Givens Foundation has completed the six month multi-site study of outcome data using the human givens approach, funded by a generous grant from the Cheadle Royal Hospital Charitable Trust .

The study started on 1 October 2007 with sixty HG therapists working in a wide variety of settings (from GP practice, PCT, MIND, Occupational Health, Personal Injury and other Insurance work and private practice) contributing data to the study.

The data from the study is now being prepared for publication by Bill Andrews and a team from Nottingham Trent University.

The results, when compared with the CORE database of therapeutic results for other forms of psychological therapy in the UK, will measure efficacy of the human givens approach and help move practice-based evidence to the fore in the treatment of a wide range of psychopathologies.

Call for Research Proposals

The Human Givens Foundation would like to fund research into the efficacy of the human givens approach. Although we have limited funds, we are keen to encourage psychological research as a way of furthering our aims and establishing our ideas more broadly throughout the academic, medical/medical health professions and education.

All proposals should be sent to the Charity Secretary. There is no application form, but we encourage an extract of proposal as an initial approach. The Foundation Trustees meet quarterly in February, May, September and November of each year.

HGF Becomes a Member of the Fundraising Standards Board

The Human Givens Foundation has joined the new Fundraising Standards Board (FRSB), the self-regulatory body for fundraising in the UK. We have signed up to the highest standards of good practice with our fundraising and the FRSB's Donors' Charter, which gives donors the comfort of a 'safety net' provided by a robust complaints system.

Foundation Endorses CORE as Outcome Measure

At its Board meeting in October, the Foundation reviewed the outcome measurement data from the ORS/SRS research conducted thus far, and based on the impressive results, recommended that CORE, in use by many within the NHS, be adopted alongside ORS/SRS. This will enable human givens therapy to be compared directly against other therapies in use within the NHS, and will also allow the Foundation to conduct a comparison research project between the two outcome measures.

Bill Andrews, research co-ordinator for the Human Givens Foundation, said "This is a huge opportunity for supporters of the HG project to show the effectiveness that we have all witnessed first hand in a format understood by the rest of the mental health world." Bill's well-researched and dynamic presentation yesterday to the Board of the Foundation convinced all present that to do the two measures alongside, create the data for a correlation study and be able to speak the same language as our peers in the psychotherapy world, policymakers, insurance industry mental health specialists and GPs would be another major step for the evolution of the Human Givens approach.

For more information on the progress of this research, click here.

Foundation Receives Grant from Steel Charitable Trust and Garfield Weston Foundation for GP-led Research

The Human Givens Foundation has received generous grants from the Steel Charitable Trust and the Garfield Weston Foundation to conduct a two-year research study into the cost-effectiveness of employing a human givens trained therapist in a general practice setting. The Foundation's Board decided in September to commence the research project, to be led by Dr Gina Johnson, the research director of the Stopsley Group practice in Luton.

It is a research practice, funded by the Department of Health, which in 2004 was awarded 'Investigator-led Research Practice' status by the Royal College of General Practice, one of only seventeen such practices in the UK. It also belongs to a newly formed Practice Based Commissioning group which covers approximately 70,000 patients.

The study will examine whether integrating a human givens therapist in an NHS general practice is effective in meeting the needs of primary care patients with mental health problems and psychosocial distress. The study also incorporates a case-control economic analysis, using both historical and control practice data, on both prescribing rates for relevant medication and also referral rates to counselling and Community Mental Health Services.

Join us as a Founder Friend

The Trustees of the Human Givens Foundation are looking for as many people as possible to become Founder Friends.

Work on funding the first Human givens residential treatment and training centre is well underway, but the costs of the planning stage, consultancy and other expenses (such as maintaining this website!) are beginning to exceed our income, despite the generosity of the Foundation's existing donors. And our vision for this centre is nothing short of being the first step in an alternative mental health system! Severely depressed, anxious or traumatised people, or people on the edge of psychosis, will be helped back into a proper state of mental health, without the need for medication, using the HG approach. Students of the approach will be able to stay at the centre, too, taking courses and learning from seeing, and participating in, the work with patients. Researchers will also be able to monitor people's progress and carry HG ideas out into the wider community.

We are not suggesting a set sum, and hope that people will offer what they think the project is worth, but a monthly donation of £10 or more will secure entry onto the roll of Founder Friends. Founder Friends can join online.

Appeal for Members

Individual membership has been set by the trustees at £120 per annum, and members will receive a free library hardback edition of Human Givens: a new approach to emotional health and clear thinking, a 15 per cent discount on books by HG Publishing and a regular newsletter. Members can join online. The Foundation is grateful for any one-off or ongoing donations if you cannot commit to membership at this time. Corporate memberships start at £1,000 per annum, and come with a package of benefits such as free seminar/workshop places at events taught by Human Givens College, corporate logos appearing on all HGF literature and publicity material and further discounts on books from
HG Publishing.