Manchester Buddhist Centre

Your chance to show how many people live by Buddhist val­ues in this country

March 2011 sees the next UK census — the first since 2001. It includes a vol­un­tary ques­tion about your reli­gion. The Network of Buddhist Organisations is ask­ing us to change the UK pic­ture of reli­gion by:

• Ticking the Box for Buddhism on your census form
• Asking your friends and fel­low prac­ti­tion­ers to Tick the Box for Buddhism too

Why Tick the Box for Buddhism?

Buddhism is offi­cially recog­nised as one of the six major faiths in the UK and Government fund­ing is alloc­ated to each faith in pro­por­tion with census figures.

Many thou­sands of British people sup­port or live by the teach­ings of Buddhism: they may med­it­ate, prac­tise mind­ful­ness, agree with the Buddhist approach to life – and still prefer to avoid labelling them­selves Buddhist.

This is under­stand­able, but accur­ate census fig­ures make a real dif­fer­ence and Buddhism has a dis­tinct­ive con­tri­bu­tion to make to British life.

More inform­a­tion

See the Network of Buddhist Organisations cam­paign site