A Nelson & Co Ltd

A Nelson & Co
Broadheath House
83 Parkside
London
SW19 5LP
ENGLAND

Tel: 00 44 (0)20 8780 4200

The relationship between the Bach Centre and Nelsons is often described as a new one, but in fact Dr Bach himself first contacted Nelsons in the 1930s and asked them to bottle his mother tinctures for resale. They continued to do this for many years until the Bach Centre was able to take on all the bottling itself, and Nelsons has always helped the Centre by making the cream used as a carrier for the Rescue Cream.

By the end of the 1980s the growth of the remedies world-wide made it obvious that the cottage at Mount Vernon could no longer bottle enough to keep up with the demand. It was also obvious that new legislation in Europe and elsewhere would mean that people in some countries would no longer be able to obtain the remedies unless measures were taken to procure the right kind of licences and satisfy various stringent quality standards. For both these reasons Nelsons were invited to assume full responsibility for distribution, and to this end they built a special bottling unit a few miles away from the Bach Centre, in Abingdon. This allowed the Centre to concentrate on teaching about the remedies and on its education projects.

Nelsons and the Bach Centre are separate organisations and will remain so. The Bach Centre's freedom to maintain and protect Dr Bach's work is greater now that the pressures of distribution and bottling have been assumed by Nelsons, and the support and enthusiasm of Nelsons for the education programme in particular have meant that approved courses and in particular training for practitioners can now be run in many more parts of the world than used to be the case. This in turn allows the Dr Edward Bach Foundation to register and support more properly trained practitioners, all of whom can help us to spread the simple message of self-healing that Dr Bach left us.