In early 2015, Breaking Convention achieved registration as a UK Charity (#1,159,687). The charity’s objectives are specifically restricted to the following:
- a) Organising and hosting a biennial academic conference bringing together multiple disciplines (including medicine, psychology, anthropology, sociology, law, politics and the arts) associated with the research of psychedelic substances.
- b) Promoting and supporting research on psychedelic substances and the dissemination, and assistance in the dissemination, of the useful results of such research.
- c) The publication of an academic book based on each conference.