Relate is a charity providing relationship support throughout
the United Kingdom. Services include counselling for couples, families, young
people and individuals, sex therapy, mediation and training courses. It was
founded in 1938 as the National Marriage Guidance Council, after a clergyman,
Herbert Gray, noted that the divorce rate was increasing. A co-founder was
eugenicist Dr Edward Fyfe Griffith. Relate adopted its current name on
Valentine's Day 1988. In the 1990s, Relate's public profile increased after
Princess Diana became its patron in 1989. Today, Relate sees over 150,000
clients a year, at more than 600 locations across the UK. In 2006, Relate
opened the Relate Institute, the UK's first Centre of Excellence for the study
of relationships, in partnership with Doncaster College and the University of
Hull.
