Finding a New Home for Buddhafield

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Our Crowdfunder

We're almost there. Get rewarded for doing good and for helping the Buddhafield Base project over the finish line. 

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Community Share Offer

This share offer is an opportunity to be part of the future of Buddhafield through the Base project.

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The Story So Far

Check out Living Bridges, our blog posts, timeline and video to see what we've been up to since the Buddhafield Base Project began.

We are fundraising to create a Buddhist community that will nurture a resource and events centre on 70 acres of land. Our goal is to support the practical exploration of answers to the important questions of our time. We aim to build sustainable, connected local economies and communities through ecological restoration, incubating social innovation, courses, and more. We’ll also continue to run our successful events and enterprises, including the Buddhafield Festival and Buddhafield Cafe.

Buddhafield Base will inspire change, connection and simplicity to support the well-being of the planet and its inhabitants. It is a bold way to live sustainably together while addressing the essential causes of our present crises. It will create opportunities for meaningful work, creativity and imagination, community, and care for land and ecology through a sense of place, purpose and belonging.

Buddhafield Base Crowdfunder

We’ve got big plans and a lot to face up to as human beings in this stage of development. We’re on the way.

Our rewards are designed to be meaningful, low-waste, and aligned with our values. Here’s what we’re offering in return for your donation: 

  • £10 – Seed Supporter- A heartfelt thank you, and your name listed on our online supporters’ page.
  • £25 – Digital Gratitude- The first reward, plus downloadable Buddhafield Base artworks/wallpaper.
  • £50 – Community Circle- The first two rewards, plus an invitation to two online gratitude and meditation gatherings in the autumn/winter.
  • £75 – Course Discount- The first three rewards, plus £50 off a future Buddhafield Base course.
  • £200 – Base Celebration- The first three rewards, plus an invite to an on-the-land celebration when we have established Buddhafield Base, will include camping or live-in spot, vegan and locally sourced food, music and fireside joy.
  • £500 – Land Guardian- The first three rewards, plus a tree planted in your name at Buddhafield Base.
  • £750 – Base Builder- The first three rewards, plus a private tour for you and a guest, and a shared meal when possible.

Buddhafield Festival Tickets

These tiers are for you if you know and love Buddhafield Festival, know you’ll be coming forever anyway, and want to lock in your tickets for the future. Please check the terms and conditions for these options.

🏕️ Festival Friends

  • £400- The first three rewards, 2 x festival tickets - lock in the 2026 price for two future years (25 available)
  • £1000- The first three rewards, 5x festival tickets - lock in the 2026 price for five future years (25)
  • £2150- The first three rewards, 10x festival tickets- secure your place in Buddhafield’s future for the next decade (35 available)

✨Sangha Partner Rewards

We appreciate all of our donors, and we know that some people have more to give and want to spend that in ways that will make a difference.

 

  • £5,000 - The first 3 rewards, plus a private tour of Buddhafield Base for you and a guest in year 2 after purchase, a shared meal and ten years of festival tickets (5 available).
  • £10,000- the first three rewards, a private tour of Buddhafield Base for you and a guest in year 2 after purchase and a lifetime pass to Buddhafield Festival (10 available).
Visit the Crowdfunder

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Community Share Offer

Imagine a place where you can attend events and volunteer that also feels like a home you helped build. With your contribution comes a chance to get involved in this exciting project.

You can buy shares from as little as £250 and up to £100,000.

Community shares are different from standard shares in that any profit goes to benefit the community project rather than individuals. By buying shares, you’ll be making a long-term investment in the community. You might think of it as a donation that you may one day get back.

Read more in our blog post here.

Why invest?

By investing, you will be helping to:

  • Create a hub to work out how to be together in this changing world and creatively approach the challenges we all face.
  • Sustain a positive organisation for future generations to enjoy the fruits of practice and our events.
  • Further educational and support aims designed to resource individuals and communities.
  • Create stronger bonds within an intentional community and help with its expansion.
  • Allow an ethical charity to employ people for more time to further community aims.
  • Support growing ethical enterprise opportunities that help to meet people’s core needs.
  • Create more volunteering opportunities so people can connect with a supportive project year-round.
  • Look after around 70 acres of land and use it to exemplify living simply and harmoniously.
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Read the full share offer here
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Buddhist Art Shop

Support the Base project and invest in some beautiful Buddhist art from artists such as Mumukshu and Aloka.

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Blog Posts

Discover more about our various values, the events we've hosted, and other aspects of the project.

Buddhafield Base Values

At Buddhafield Base, we seek to grow, reconnect and be of service through our four values:

Care for Land and Ecology

Land is integral to Buddhafield. It’s where we connect with the elements, strip away our complex lives and live simply, together. It’s where we can experience a new and beneficial way to live.

At Base, we aim to grow our own organic food, develop a forest garden, re-wild areas and support local biodiversity. Our buildings will be eco-conscious, with energy drawn from renewable sources.

Authentic Community

In a community, we find others and we find ourselves. The beauty and challenge of relationships are opportunities for generosity, forgiveness and bravery. These are the qualities that move us beyond our self-centredness.

At Base, we will have a permanent community with space for individuals and families. We have a strong track record of creating powerful, temporary communities that come together for events or projects. They leave with a lasting connection to a collective sense of purpose and belonging. This focus will continue through events, volunteer projects, trainings, and other activities and celebrations.

Meaningful Work

Buddhafield offers opportunities for people to work in teams while creating our events and looking after land and kit. Meeting the challenge of working together outdoors in all weathers develops skills, confidence and collaboration skills. The bonding and shared purpose dissolve the sense of isolation felt by many.

Base will increase opportunities for volunteers and teams to work together in support of our events, courses, and community. By providing opportunities for shared purpose in a context supporting regenerative working practices, Base offers a radical antidote to the dominant paradigms of alienation and burnout.

·Celebration of Imagination and Creativity

Imagination and creativity have drifted to the edge of our daily lives, as if they are not robust enough for the serious business of today’s world. At Buddhafield, we seek to re-centre qualities like these that go hand in hand with renewal and regeneration.

We aim to maintain the golden thread of beauty and inspiration in all our activities. We create systems that encourage people’s inspiration, autonomy, and ability to rejoice in the world. This kind of resourcing is essential if we are to rise to the challenges the world is facing collectively.

Buddhafield Base - the film

Get a feel for the project, what Buddhafield has to offer and where Buddhafield Base will take us with this video.

Living Bridges Conversations

Buddhafield Base is more than a fundraising project, or a land project or a community. It's about a way of living in the world that's flexible, beneficial, compassionate and effective. While we're on the journey to Buddhafield Base, we're also creating conversations at different events, Buddhist Centres and within a diverse community about what it means to feel like a living bridge.

Living root bridges are a type of simple suspension bridge formed of living plant roots by tree shaping across generations. They are common in the North-Eastern part of India. They last up to 500 years and make connections across rivers and ravines that are resilient and yet integrated into the landscape.

The experiential workshop draws on the Buddha's teaching of conditionality, awareness and insight. It examines how conflict and polarisation manifest in our lives and communities while drawing on our unique lineages and their role in shaping the conditions for creative action in areas of importance to us.

What happens during a workshop?

During the workshop, participants look at:

  • how conflict and polarisation are showing up in their lives
  • an area where they would like to make a difference
  • creating space to identify and share the linage/ roots of what is important to them
  • finding wisdom in the root that can inform skilful means to take action and make a difference
  • devising a clear and manageable steps towards action

Facilitators

Our workshop facilitators include: Amaragita, Lucy Barber, Sara Riley and Cait Crosse - all long term members of the Buddhafield team with experience in holding space and diving deeper.

Locations

Places where Living Bridges has taken place:

 

Contact us if you would like to host a living bridges workshop

Timeline

The Buddhafield Base Project has been gaining momentum for a few years now - flick through the slide to see some of the important milestones.