Annual Report of the National Spiritual Assembly 2015
National Spiritual Assembly
nsa@bahai.org.uk
13 April 2015
5 Jalál 172 B.E.
To all Bahá’ís in the United Kingdom
Dearly loved Friends,
The National Spiritual Assembly is pleased to share with you a copy of its Annual Report for the year 2014-15. It will also available for download on www.resources.bahai.org.uk.
The Annual Report reviews the achievements and learning of the Bahá’í Community of the United Kingdom during the last year. The following are the main contents:
1. Advancing the process of entry by troops
A. Frontiers of learning in the UK
B. Emerging programmes of growth
C. Increasing intensity
D. Youth
E. Schools
F. Emergence of a well‐grounded educational process
G. Enhancing institutional capacity to support the movement of clusters
2. Statistics
3. Distribution of literature
4. External affairs
A. Participation in the discourses of society on the national stage
B. Relationships with government and civil society, including efforts to defend the Bahá’í community from persecution
C. Relations with the media
D. Work of the Religious Education taskforce
E. Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity undergraduate seminars 2014
5. Financial report
A. National fund
B. Deputisation funds
C. Guardian’s Resting Place Operational fund
D. Guardian’s Resting Place Endowment fund
E. The International Collaboration fund
F. International funds
G. The year ahead
H. Summary of key opportunities for 2015
6. Other matters
A. Clifton Guest House, 17 Royal York Cresent, Bristol
B. Guardian’s Resting Place
C. Institution of Huqúqu’lláh
D. National archives
E. National library
F. Bahá’í histories project
G. Bahá’í Society for Persian Arts and Letters
H. Pastoral agencies & chaplaincy
I. Afnan Library Trust
J. Faroe islands
K. National Haziratu’l‐quds
L. Bahá’í population statistics
7. Concluding remarks
8. Members of institutions, committees and agencies
The National Assembly hopes that a reading of this report will be informative, encouraging and inspiring to the efforts of all who labour throughout the United Kingdom with such love and diligence in the path of service to Bahá’u’lláh.
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
National Spiritual Assembly
Patrick O’Mara,
Secretary