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INFORM is an independent charity that was founded in 1988 by Professor Eileen Barker with the help of British Home Office funding and the support of the mainstream Churches. It is based at the London School of Economics.

The primary aim of INFORM is to help people through providing them with accurate, balanced, up-to-date information about new and/or alternative religious or spiritual movements.*

INFORM does not make judgements about religious beliefs.
But we can tell you what those beliefs are.

INFORM does not say whether a group is 'good' or 'bad'.
But we can tell you what a group has done and is doing.

INFORM does not tell you what to think about a group.
But we can give you information from a wide variety of sources so that you yourself can come to a more informed opinion.

INFORM does not tell you what to do.
But we can tell you the likely consequences of different actions, based on past situations and scholarly research.

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*No attempt is made here to define too precisely the term 'new religious movement' (NRMs). It is used merely to provide a common-sense starting point to cover what others have called cults, sects, non-conventional religions, alternative religions or self religions, as well as new movements in established religions.