In February 2025, a Channel 4 investigation reported allegations of sexual assault and harassment of girls and women by David Fletcher, leader of Iwerne and Titus Trust trustee.

Many men who became influential church leaders attended the Iwerne camps, including John Stott, David Sheppard, Michael Green, Dick Lucas and Justin Welby.

Randle Manwaring wrote The keynotes of Iwerne were always very simple bible teaching and pastoral care through strongly developed friendships at all levels.

[8] John Smyth, a barrister who was best known for acting for Mary Whitehouse in her successful private prosecution for blasphemy against the newspaper Gay News, became chair of the Iwerne Trust in 1974 and was involved with the camps until 1981.

[6] In 2020, after the John Smyth abuse case, the trust announced that it would be closing down the Iwerne brand and directing attendees towards its other camps (Lymington Rushmore, Gloddaeth and LDN).

[12][13] Iwerne Trust had carried out its own internal report in 1982, compiled by Mark Ruston of the Round Church Cambridge and David Fletcher of the Scripture Union, but it was not made public until 2016.

[14][15] It found Smyth targeted pupils from leading public schools and took them to his home near Winchester in Hampshire, where he carried out lashings with a garden cane in his shed.

[16] Smyth fled the United Kingdom in 1984 and moved to Zimbabwe where, in 1986, he set up summer camps for boys from the country's leading schools.

The Alliance describes itself as "a coalition of corporations‚ individuals and churches committed to upholding and fighting for justice and the highest moral standards in South African society."

[18] A group of survivors describing themselves as 'amongst the scores of victims' beaten by Smyth released their own statement which outlined that they were 'appalled' by the response of Titus Trust.

They also said that reports were stored in the loft of the chair of the Trust, Giles Rawlinson, and were not made available to any secular authorities until 2017, when they were requisitioned by Hampshire police under warrant.

[20] In 2018 there were calls for an independent inquiry into both the abuse, and the culture of the Trust that enabled John Smyth to evade justice despite awareness amongst so many trustees, associated clergy and senior figures within the Church of England.