The Face to Face Trust is a new and unique national charity, with a personally empowering and essentially preventative focus, founded in 2008. The Trust seeks to promote and enhance personal and social trust, without which no society or individual can function with confidence and efficiency. Hence the Trust seeks to deliver awareness and growth in absolutely basic issues, making a real difference to life quality for citizens, and at low unit cost.

Trustees are especially concerned with changing the nature of many dysfunctional personal relationships within our fragmented society: at home in family life, in business, employment, public services, relevant political arenas, and within local communities. At the centre of most down-stream socio-economic and educational problems are issues of lack of trust between people; and trust is clearly a very precious and delicate human capacity.

Despite many material improvements, our variously stressed times emotionally, economically and practically, reflect deep desperations for personal significance, meaning, trust, and sufficient social predictability, reliable love and belonging. Frustrated by a seeming lack of cohesive, non-partisan concern for these personal and social fundamentals, a diverse range of experience, energy and concerns of individual Foundation Trustees came together in the Spring of 2008 to establish the Trust; and that very word is for us an active noun. Continued…