The Decult Trust was set up as a Charitable Trust in February 2024.
The Trust is committed to:
- Foster social cohesion, mental health support and human rights advocacy for
people leaving high-demand groups (aka cults); - Raising public awareness about coercive control and the emotional, spiritual, physical and sexual abuse suffered by people in cults;
- Hinder the recruitment into cults and their harmful influence in Aotearoa
The purpose of the Trust is to seek funding and facilitate contracting with service providers to deliver the following projects:
- To provide regular cult awareness conferences including international experts to educate the public on cults.
- To produce media resources for cult awareness and education.
- To continue the ongoing operation of the Decult Trust
Trustees
Dennis Parker (Chair)
Business manager & governance consultant
Anke Richter
Decult founder/director & journalist
Dr Frank Kueppers
Urological surgeon, Christchurch Hospital
Tracey Irving
Senior psychologist, Waikato Hospital
Mark Darbyshire
Data analyst & Justice of the Peace
Judy Wnendt
Teacher aide & social work student
