Founded | 1997 |
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Type | Charitable trust |
Registration no. | 1066751 |
Location |
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Area served | England & Wales |
Method | “To seek by every available effective means to make the Christian faith a living practical issue to young people having a past or present association with independent schools in England and Wales, this being done in accordance with the basis of faith.”[1] |
Key people | The Revd and Hon David Fletcher; Mr Giles Rawlinson (Chair until 2016) Peter Gaskell |
Subsidiaries | Iwerne Holidays, Christian Activity Holidays Forres, Lymington Rushmore Holidays, Gloddaeth (St David’s College, Llandudno) , LDN Holidays |
Revenue | £2million (2017)[1] |
Employees | 18[1] |
Volunteers | 939[1] |
Website | www.titustrust.org |
Formerly called | Iwerne Trust |
The Titus Trust is a registered charity in the UK, and is the successor organisation to the Iwerne Trust.
It runs evangelical Christian holiday camps for children and young people at private schools. The camps provide adventure activities including kayaking, climbing, go-karting, sailing, laser clay-pigeon shooting and other activities, while also providing Bible studies and discussion groups on the Christian faith.
The Iwerne Trust was set up in 1932 by E. J. H. Nash ("Bash"), initially to financially support the Iwerne camps, which were in theory run by Scripture Union (though in practice largely independent). In 1997 it was succeeded by the Titus Trust, which took over running of the holidays directly in 2000.
After the death of barrister and Iwerne Trust chairman John Smyth in 2018, details came to light about abuse of boys at Iwerne Trust camps under Smyth's leadership which eventually resulted in a settlement being reached between the Titus Trust and a group of survivors.