History of the UK Paruresis Trust

Trustees

The first trustees originally met via Richard Z's U.S. website (which is no longer in existence) and then set up the UK site. More people joined in after finding the UK site. We first met informally in spring 1999, and have met on and off ever since.

The association was set up in July 2002, became a charity in December 2002, and a charitable trust in 2005. Humour, trust, intelligent cut and thrust, friendship and empathy are all bywords for the meetings.

We were saddened to note the death of Professor Alex Gardner, our first Hon Advisor, in late 2018.

Alex was a Chartered Psychologist and Registered Psychotherapist who made it his personal project to raise awareness of paruresis and support the development of UKPT. Without him there would have been no charity, no workshops, and none of the hundreds of individuals would have had their lives changed.

We owe him an enormous debt of gratitude.

Read his obituary here.