The Future

Why we need money

For the past seven years we have lived in rented accommodation which, although it has served us well, is no longer suited to our purposes.

We need to be able to put down permanent roots. We also need more room to be able to admit novices, expand our charitable activities and welcome guests adequately (our present house may look big, but the amount of usable space is much smaller than you might think). It is heartbreaking having to turn vocations away or refuse guests because we cannot provide the facilities they need.

A monastery, however, is not just any kind of house and grounds. It needs to be big enough to be welcoming, small enough to be sustainable, and beautiful enough to inspire all who visit with a sense of God's beauty and holiness. The nuns' accommodation needs to be very simple whereas that used by guests should be comfortable. Above all, the areas devoted to worship and study, the chapel and the library, should be dignified, suited to their purpose.

Why we need money now

For a long time we have been trying to find a way of meeting all these requirements. We have investigated a number of properties in the diocese but were unable to raise the purchase price in time.

Can you help us? WILL you help us? The next few pages explain how you can help us achieve our aims by

• investing in the Holy Trinity Monastery Charitable Bond
• making a donation
• making us a loan

Every penny helps, so even a small donation would be greatly appreciated.

Become part of the monastery's future

Bishop Crispian is very supportive of our plans and has encouraged us to do all we can to make this project succeed. Helping us will do more than give us the space we need to accomplish our aims; it will make you part of the monastery's future. It will make you a founder of an enterprise with a global reach even though it is based in rural Oxfordshire.

We have a carefully thought-through Business Plan. Buying a house represents the first, essential stage. If you would like to see some of the questions that have been raised and the answers provided by the community, please see the blog post of 22 August (link opens in new window).

One last thought: if everyone who visited our web sites in 2010 had donated 23p/35c each, we'd have had enough to buy a house without appealing for help . . .