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Why your donations work

The Abhayaratna Trust is the way our Triratna Community can care for Order members experiencing financial hardship. It’s a straightforward conduit of compassion to share resources with those who have few.

A trusted way to give to those in genuine need of support where state and other help is not available. The grants we make are practical, immediate and beneficial to Dharma practice. Supporting the Abhayaratna Trust also resources us to offer non-financial support for health and housing difficulties.

What you give to us, we give in considered grants to around 120 Triratna Buddhist Order members a year. So they can, for example:

Fund retreats and solitary retreats
Access health therapies
Be at Triratna Order gatherings
Pay for urgent living costs such as heating bills
Cover relocation costs to other Triratna centres
Travel to Adhisthana and other retreat centres
Access money quickly in an emergency
Help with furnishing sheltered and other accommodation
Pay for vital medical care or equipment

Everything we do is made possible through the generosity of individuals in the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community

We use donations and legacies wisely. The Abhayaratna trustees make well informed grant decisions, based on the individual’s financial situation and the availability of other help, such as state and family support.

The Order’s Health Fund

Giving support for health grants

In this 3 minute video Taradakini explains why regular donations to the specially set up Order Health Fund are vital if we are to relieve health-based suffering among members of the Order.

To donate via a monthly, quarterly or annual direct debit, please click here, or use this PayPal link if you bank outside the UK. You are also welcome to make a one-of donation to this fund. For other ways to donate, for example by bank transfer or cheque, please email jinavamsa@abhayaratnatrust.org.

The Order Health Fund can reduce physical and mental suffering when there are no funding alternatives. Please help us build this vital resource. Thank you.

Why the time is right for an Order Health Fund

With free state health services under a lot of pressure in some countries where Order members live, and limited or not available in others, the Abhayaratna Trust launched the Order Health Fund in August 2022. Its mission, to relieve physical and mental health suffering for Order members who have no or very limited financial means.

We have already helped fund an operation for an Order member who was hit by a car; Order members needing eye operations, hearing aids, dentures and glasses, as well as counselling and osteopathy.

With your help, we can support more Order members with unaffordable and necessary health costs, such as cancer care in India, or hip replacements where this is not state funded. You might need to call on this Fund yourself one day, and meantime you will be supporting Order members who are in health hardship today.

The easy way to increase your donations by 25%!

If you pay tax in the UK, when making a donation online, please tick the Gift Aid box to increase your donation by a valuable 25%. If sending a UK cheque or donating by PayPal, please read the Gift Aid declaration below and let us know if it applies to your donation by emailing jinavamsa@abhayaratnatrust.org or downloading the Gift Aid Declaration and emailing or posting it to us.

Gift Aid declaration: ‘I confirm I have paid or will pay UK Income Tax (including Capital Gains Tax but excluding VAT and Council Tax) for each tax year equal to or more than the amount donated to charities in each tax year (6 April to 5 April), and I understand Abhayaratna Trust (registered charity no. 1126494) will reclaim 25p tax on every £1 given on or after 5 April 2018.’

If your situation changes and you no longer pay enough tax for us to claim Gift Aid or we can now claim on your donations when we couldn’t in the past, please do take the time to email Jinavamsa@abhayaratnatrust.org to let us know. Thank you.