Margaret Pyke Trust

Ever since His Royal Highness, the Duke of Edinburgh, officially opened the first Margaret Pyke Centre on 27 November 1969, the Margaret Pyke Trust has been a pioneer in reproductive health. For a period, the Margaret Pyke Centre was the busiest family planning clinic in the world. In 1974, contraception finally came within the remit of the National Health Service (NHS) and the Trust transferred the Margaret Pyke Centre to the NHS, enabling the Trust to turn its attention to training and research. The Trust became, and remains, the UK’s leading provider of sexual and reproductive health training for healthcare professionals. Today, in addition to the Trust’s reproductive health training work, the Trust works to change global development policies, to integrate reproductive health improvements in environmental and climate change structures. The Trust has Observer Status with both the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and United Nations Environment Programme. Consequently, the Trust fills a unique niche in cross-sectoral working. The Trust is also a Commitment Maker of Family Planning 2020; the United Nations led global partnership composed of governments, civil society, multilateral organisations, donors, the private sector, and the research and development community working to meet the unmet need for family planning.