Gathering Groups Mental Health and Resiliency FoundationRegistered charity 797604600RR0001
Gathering Groups Mental Health and Resiliency Foundation
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charity that promotes mental health and wellbeing, and researches structured group programmes for mental health and resiliency.
Our mission
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charity that promotes mental health and wellbeing, and researches structured group programmes for mental health and resiliency. Our registered charitable purposes are:
- To promote mental health and wellbeing by providing counselling, therapy and other therapeutic and wellness services to the general public, addressing factors that contribute to mental illness such as grief, trauma, anger, stress and addiction.
- To relieve poverty by giving people of low income access to those services.
- To advance education by researching the benefits and efficacy of available and experimental treatments for mental illness, in line with Health Canada regulations and guidelines.
We sponsor clinical research into group programmes so that their effects on mental health and resiliency are studied properly, under ethics and regulatory oversight. Our programs.
What we have done so far
- September 2024. Incorporated as a BC society (S0074954). The Foundation is a registered charity with the Canada Revenue Agency.
- 2026. Became the sponsor of the GatherWell clinical trial (CINC-003-GatherWell), taking on responsibility for running a study of a structured twelve-week group programme under ethics and regulatory oversight.
- August 2026. Updated its charitable purposes and activities on file with the Canada Revenue Agency to cover this research.
- Next. The trial has not started, so there are no results yet. When it has run, we will publish what it found here, whatever the findings.
Our research
The Foundation sponsors GatherWell, a clinical trial of the Gathering Method, a structured twelve-week group programme. The trial is not recruiting. Read about the research.
About us
Who we are, how we are governed, and how we are funded. About the Foundation.
Contact
Email admin@gatherwelltrial.com, or write to us at 675 Laxton Street, Abbotsford BC V2T 6C4. Contact details.