Work for the Abhayaratna Trust

Part-time opportunity for an Order member to join the team at the Abhayaratna Trust

Donor Support and Communications Coordinator, 21 hours a week, home-based

We are looking for someone with strong administrative experience, excellent organisational and record-keeping skills, and confident use of Microsoft Office. Experience creating content for newsletters, websites, and social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube is important, as is a clear and professional writing style, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and with sensitivity to confidentiality. Knowledge of content management systems, basic video editing, or Squarespace would be an advantage.

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Many of you will have seen our recent 2025 Annual Review, which highlights the Trust's work over the past year. We are very grateful for everything that has been made possible, and proud of the support we continue to offer Order members around the world. At the same time, we think there is more we could do. We would like to reach more Order members, encourage those in need to seek support, and strengthen the network of care that exists within the Order.

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Many of you will have seen our recent 2025 Annual Review, which highlights the Trust's work over the past year. We are very grateful for everything that has been made possible, and proud of the support we continue to offer Order members around the world. At the same time, we think there is more we could do. We would like to reach more Order members, encourage those in need to seek support, and strengthen the network of care that exists within the Order.

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This year, Order members from around the world have been reaching out to the Abhayaratna Trust for help attending their Area Conventions.

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Este mes, Ghosaka, nuestro nuevo Director, habla sobre conocer mejor el trabajo del Trust, y el equipo destaca las maneras en que el Trust puede ayudar a los Miembros de la Orden con subvenciones.

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One of the ways that the Abhayaratna Trust can help Order members is with assistance in attending retreats. This is the area where we give most grants and these are predominantly grants for people to attend residential retreats. There are also, however, growing opportunities within Triratna to attend non-residential retreats online.

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This month Ghosaka, our new Director, talks about getting to know Trusts’ work and the team highlight the ways the Trust can help Order members with grants.

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We are pleased welcome Ghosaka, (pictured), as the new Director of the Abhayaratna Trust. He brings a great deal of experience of working in teams and right livelihood situations during his twenty six years as an Order member.

Ghosaka writes: ‘I am delighted to have been given the opportunity to become a part of the team at the Abhayaratna Trust and to contribute to

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When I was in Norwich in December, I visited Sarvananda, who wished to make a short video, thanking the Abhayaratna Trust and its supporters for helping him go on retreat by providing a grant. Due to having a ‘bad cold’ at the time he asked his auntie Jean to speak on his behalf. I was moved.

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As we approach the end of the year it's customary to look back at what we've achieved over the past twelve months. The headline for the Abhayaratna Trust is that we've helped some 225 Order members in financial hardship around the world.

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Cohousing offers a way of living where neighbours have their own private homes but also share common spaces and facilities.  This creates a more sustainable lifestyle and fosters genuine connection between people. Suvana is a cohousing project grounded in Buddhist values, drawing on friendship, simplicity, and shared practice to support daily life.

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‘A comienzos de este año tuve que dejar mi trabajo en Londres y regresar a Venezuela para cuidar de mi padre moribundo y apoyar a mi madre. No había vuelto a mi país en siete años y, de muchas maneras, este viaje inesperado representó un regreso profundo a mis raíces. Aunque inicialmente había planeado una estancia de tres meses (ya fuera para estar presente en el 90 cumpleaños de mi padre o en su funeral), terminé quedándome otros tres meses, rodeado de incertidumbre, belleza y dificultad.

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There have now been many retreats in Triratna geared especially towards young people. With his work with the Abhayaratna Trust giving him a keen awarenes of the needs of older Order members, Mahasraddha came up with the vision of a retreat intended for Order members of 65 years and more, giving them the opportunity to explore what it means to maintain an effective life in the Dharma into old age.

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Abhayasara who lives in Merida in Venezula is struggling with her eyesight, her eyes are now in an advanced state of deterioration, and she needs cataract surgery on both eyes. Parami who publicly ordained Abhayasara says:

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A big welcome to Kshantika, who is joining the Abhayaratna Trust team as our new grants and care co-ordinator from he 12th of August. We are very happy to have Kshantika take the role and invited her to introduce herself.

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After 13 years of serving the Order through her work for the Abhayaratna Trust, Taradakini is leaving us this month.

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AN Opportunity for an Order member to join the Team as Order Care Co-ordinator

The Abhayaratna Trust works to relieve financial hardship among Order members, particularly in the face of illness, ageing and disability. We also take a strategic view, helping to respond to crises such as the Covid pandemic, and the implications of the Order’s ageing demographic.

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Sudarshanaloka Retreat Centre New Zealand is 11 buildings and huts spread over 230 acres of rugged and mostly steep ground. At age 70, it’s getting rather too much to get around for Guhyavajra, one of its main caretakers.

Rather than leave, Guhyavajra wants to manage ageing in these conditions intelligently. Having an electric bike will enable him to carry on his day-to-day work at Sudarshanaloka at the same time as strengthening his health - but without overdoing it.

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The work of the Trust has greatly expanded in India since the covid pandemic of 2020-22. India was hit very hard at that time and many Order members in found themselves in desperate and sometimes life-threatening circumstances. The Abhayaratna Trust responded by running an appeal which received a tremendous response from the Tritana Community all over the world, raising over £200,000. This enabled the Trust to help many Order members across India at the time and also in the longer term, because many Order members there lost their livelihoods due to the pandemic.

As a result, the Abhayaratna Trust developed our Livelihood Project, giving grants to Indian Order members in hardship

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Mahasraddha, the Director of the Abhayaratna Trust is in India for the Order convention, which is taking place at Bodhgaya from 24th to 31st of January . While he is in India Mahasraddha will also be visiting some of the livelihood projects that were funded by the Abhayaratna Trust through our covid India fund, which was money raised by an appeal run by the Trust in 2021.

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