Blackthorn Trust is a registered charity which runs a Health and Community Hub providing holistic, life enhancing opportunities for people with mental and/or chronic physical health conditions.
Our main, mental health, support programme offers the people referred to us a six-month, free to attend, placement of social-therapeutic workshops within our tranquil grounds in Maidstone. Our tranquil site provides an environment where people can recover through nurture, healing and growth.
Blackthorn Therapy Clinic is part of Blackthorn Trust and offers low-cost complementary therapies for anyone aged 16+ who wants to improve their physical or mental wellbeing.
The Blackthorn Trust site includes a large garden, café, charity shop, plant nursery (open to the public 10am to 3pm, Monday to Friday), therapy rooms and the therapeutic workshops that are used by our mental health support programme.
Our anthroposophical approach is that more than medication is required to affect positive change.
“To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.”
Rudolf Steiner – philosopher, social reformer & founder of the principles that Blackthorn Trust is based upon