Whole Person Health Trust

The Whole Person Health Trust (WPH Trust) has grown out of the work of the Hanbury Community Project in Spitalfields, East London, and the medical work of Dr Michael Sheldon, a General Practitioner based originally at the Mission Practice in Bethnal Green. The ideas and concepts behind the Trust were debated for several years under the auspices of the Inner City Renewal Trust (ICRT), the charity that developed the Hanbury Community Project. Eventually the WPH Trust was launched independently in 2000, becoming a limited company in 2002 and gaining charitable status in July 2003.

The aim of the Trust is to develop, practice and promote a whole-person approach to health care.

The Charity's Objects are briefly:

To relieve and prevent sickness and ill health by the treatment and care of the whole person;

To advance education by the development and dissemination of the concept of whole person health care in accordance with Christian principles by such means as the trustees may consider appropriate.

Activities of the Trust in 2008 consist of:

Running a Whole Person Clinic in the east end of London (now temporarily stopped);

Conducting teaching sessions and training programmes for health care workers;

Consultancy in the development of whole person medicine and health care;

Publications through booklets, articles and the world-wide web;

Developing a resource of publications about whole-person health for researchers.