Donations
- Donations
- Online donations (by debit or credit card)
- Standing Orders
- Cash, Cheques and Bank Transfers
- Top-slicing of restricted donations over £20,000
- Gift Aid
- Donations of shares
- Making a bequest in your will
- Cryptocurrency
Donations to Amaravati Buddhist Monastery are made through The English Sangha Trust
Ltd., a registered charity which acts as steward for Amaravati and Chithurst monasteries.
Online donations (by debit or credit card)
Online donations using a debit or credit card can be made online in UK pounds and in other
currencies. A charge of 1.58% is made by the company handling the transaction.
You will be asked if you would like your donation to go to general funds or for a specific
purpose. If the amount received is more than is needed for that specific purpose, any surplus
funds will be used for the general support of the community.
Standing Orders
Amaravati’s income varies greatly from month to month, depending on the public teaching
programme, festivals and unpredictable things such as the weather. Standing Orders provide
regular income and particularly help the monastery plan its work. If you are a UK tax payer
please consider adding Gift Aid to your donation.
Cash, Cheques and Bank Transfers
Donations in cash or by cheque can placed in the donation box in the envelopes provided.
Please make cheques payable to The English Sangha Trust Ltd. They can be sent by post
to: Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, St Margarets, Great Gaddesden, Hemel
Hempstead, Herts HP1 3BZ.
To make domestic and international bank transfers, please contact the Trust Secretary by
completing the ‘Contact the English Sangha Trust’ form below to request details of the
Trust’s bank account. You may wish to check with your bank in advance on the charges for
transferring funds.
If you want a donation to be used for a specific purpose, please include a note explaining this
with the donation. If the amount is more than is needed for that specific purpose, any surplus
funds will be used for the general support of the community.
Top-slicing of restricted donations over £20,000
Large donations for specific projects:
For donations of more than £20,000 given for a specific purpose or project, our policy is to dedicate 5% of those donations towards operational costs, providing the donor agrees.
Gift Aid
If you are a UK tax payer please consider Gift Aiding your donation. The government will
add 25% to your donation at no cost to you.
Donations of shares
We accept donations of shares. These may be retained or sold in accordance with our
investment policy.
Making a bequest in your will
Please contact the Trust Secretary, by using the form below, if you wish to make a bequest to
the monastery in your will.
Cryptocurrency
The EST Trustees, on the advice of the Sangha, have decided not to accept donations of
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies at present. This was decided because of environmental
and other ethical concerns. If you have funds held in cryptocurrencies and you wish to make
a donation to support the Sangha you are, of course, welcome to convert your gift into pounds
sterling and to offer it in that form instead.