The Pioneer Health Foundation exists to disseminate the ideas of the 
Peckham Experiment, a unique enquiry into the nature of health that took 
place between 1935 – 1950.

As part of its activities, the Foundation is offering the ‘Mary Langman 
Prize’; an annual award for an essay that furthers the lessons learnt at 
the Pioneer Health Centre about the social, emotional and environmental 
contribution to health.

Mary Langman was personal assistant to Dr George Scott Williamson who 
with Dr Innes Pearse founded the Peckham Experiment. She ran Oakley Farm 
at Bromley Common which produced organic food for the Experiment, and 
founded and ran ‘Wholefood’, the ground breaking organic shop in Baker
Street, London. She worked closely with Lady Eve Balfour of the Soil 
Association, and was one of its founder members with George Scott 
Williamson and Innes Pearse. After Scott Williamson's death, she 
assisted Innes Pearse in the editing of his papers, put together in the 
book ‘Science Synthesis and Sanity’.

We believe that the Peckham Experiment, the emergent hypothesis and the 
findings, bring together a nexus of ideas that are beginning to be seen 
as central to problems facing society today.

Mary Langman made a generous bequest to the Pioneer Health Foundation 
and we feel it appropriate to use it in the creation of an intellectual 
platform and philosophical basis that is rational, ethical and inspired.

The Mary Langman prize will be awarded annually for an essay of not more 
than 3000 words which shows an understanding of the principles of the 
Peckham Experiment, which identifies key aspects, and which explains 
their relevance to today's issues. The competition is open to all 
students studying at Universities and Higher Education institutions in 
the UK. The title of the essay is 'The Relevance of the Peckham 
Experiment in the 21st Century'.

Full details of the competition rules and guidelines are available
at  http://www.marylangmanprize.org.uk 
by clicking on the 'Rules and Guidelines' tab. Further information about 
the Peckham Experiment is available on the Pioneer Health Foundation 
website at www.thephf.org

An A4 poster for display in Universities and Higher Education
institutions is available for download here
<http://www.marylangmanprize.org.uk/mlp%202009%20poster.pdf>. (PDF 6KB)