Who runs the Manchester Buddhist Centre?

The people behind the scenes

On the ground, the Centre Team, its teach­ers and other employ­ees imple­ment the vis­ion of the Board of Trustees

Trust­ees

The trust­ees are leg­ally respons­ible for the run­ning of the Centre. This includes Dharma and med­it­a­tion teach­ing, and also the administration.

Manchester Buddhist Centre is a registered char­ity (char­ity reg. no. 514937).

The trust­ees are:

  • Suryaka
  • Padmadar­shini
  • Jutika
  • Mun­isha
  • Arthaketu
  • Sona
  • Vajra­mudita
  • Mahas­raddha
  • Dayamala (Chair)

Chair

Dayamala is the chair of the MBC. She is respons­ible for the Centre’s spir­itual dir­ec­tion and integrity

Teach­ing

Teach­ing is done by a num­ber of Order Mem­bers. The Teach­ing Kula imple­ments the trust­ees’ ideas:

  • Chandana
  • Rat­na­guna
  • Arthaketu
  • Padmadar­shini

Employ­ees

Vajra­mudita, as Dir­ector of Oper­a­tions, executes the trust­ees’ decisions with the Centre Team

Centre Team

The Centre Team con­sists of five part-time staff and two full-time staff:

  • Andrew Gorecki (Administration)
  • Chandana (New­comer Man­ager, Volunteers)
  • Kate Walsh (Recep­tion, shop, and room book­ings Manager)
  • Keith Green (Fun­drais­ing and Mar­ket­ing Man­ager, Pub­li­city and Communications)
  • Rat­nagita (Fin­ance, con­tracts, team rota, management
  • Suryaka (Facil­it­ies and Main­ten­ance Man­ager, management)
  • Vajra­mudita (Dir­ector of Oper­a­tions — main man­ager of team)

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Other employ­ees

  • Fiona Cutts (accountant)
  • Padmadar­shini (women’s mitra convenor)
  • Arthaketu (men’s mitra convenor)

All of these work part-time

Salar­ies

Most of the team earn £6.70 per hour, though there are vari­ations accord­ing to need; for example, if someone has chil­dren to support

Volun­teers

We have an excel­lent num­ber of volun­teers who work on pro­jects and on help­ing the Centre run smoothly, by sup­port­ing classes, work­ing on recep­tion, diy, clean­ing, leaf­let­ing, selling second hand books and main­tain­ing the facilities.

Your help is invalu­able, thank you!

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