The Tait Vision Fund is a Scottish registered charity dedicated to supporting, promoting and encouraging the treatment of individuals using drug free and medicine free methods, by Nature Cure methods. The practitioners are all members of the Incorporated Society of Registered Naturopaths, the oldest register of naturopaths in the UK. Grants are made for training, setting up practices and most importantly, to enable those in ill health and in financial hardship to access Nature Cure treatment.

The charity was set up in 1948 to carry forward the vision of Adam Tait – a grateful patient of the Kingston Clinic in Edinburgh – to establish another health home in Scotland where the good work could be continued and extended. Sadly, due to a legal technicality his bequest could not be implemented. This was a spur to James Thomson and family to create a charity in his name. Other patients who had benefitted from Nature Cure treatment at the Kingston Clinic rallied round and donations started to roll in. In the event, no other residential homes were created but many practices were set up in the UK run by the graduates of the Kingston Clinic based Edinburgh School of Natural Therapeutics.

This Fund is still active today – nearly eight decades later – and it continues to foster the training of new practitioners and disseminate information about Nature Cure more widely. Initially focused on Scotland, latterly the Fund has spread its net wider to include all Nature Cure practitioners registered with the Incorporated Society of Registered Naturopaths in the rest of the U.K.

We also continue to support patients throughout the UK and we run an annual Retreat in Peeblesshire where people of like mind can get together for a week and enjoy treatments, walks, talks and good wholesome vegetarian (or vegan) food.  In 2025 the age range was from 19 to 87.

Broadening the remit of the Fund as we move forward. Organic food production, that is so much a part of the Nature Cure way of life, is gaining ground and becoming more mainstream again. Local organic food production is being re-established and embraced as a way for people to access both heathier food and improve their physical and mental health. People are becoming more aware of the biodiversity loss in their local areas and are questioning the current high-input chemical farming methods. Many incidences of localised pollution, biodiversity loss and links to health issues have brought the downsides of chemical and high input farming and food production to centre stage. The Trustees decided that they would like to be able to broaden their support to include community projects that focussed on healthy organic and wildlife friendly food production and acknowledge the benefits to physical and mental health that these projects show.  Our Constitution was amended in late 2025 to reflect this.

There is more information about world renowned Kingston Clinic, which closed in 1988, in the section titled A short History of Nature Cure in Scotland.