Iwerne Holidays began in April 1930 when the Revd E.J.H. Nash, at that time a school chaplain, ran his first holiday for thirty-three boys in Sussex. The camps continued (initially under canvas!) around Eastbourne, until the outbreak of the Second World war prompted a move away from the Battle of Britain flight-path to the village of Iwerne Minster in Dorset.
There, Clayesmore School became home for the holidays for over sixty years, and the name ‘Iwerne’ has stuck beyond the move to a new home on the north Norfolk coast at Gresham’s School, Holt.
Crocker and Football
Chess and chaps
As the work expanded it came under the auspices of Scripture Union, and Mr. Nash became the first SU staff worker for independent schools, until his retirement in 1965.
Over the years other holidays and houseparties have been added to the calendar, and the Iwerne work has founded other holiday organisations which now run as fully-established independent works, though still together under the umbrella of the Titus Trust.
