Guardian’s Resting Place Endowment Fund
National Spiritual Assembly
nsa@bahai.org.uk
13 November 2014
10 Qudrat 171 B.E.
To all believers in the United Kingdom
Dearly loved Friends,
Guardian’s Resting Place Endowment Fund
One of the great bounties of the UK community is the responsibility for the Guardian’s Resting Place. In a letter of May 2008 the Universal House of Justice suggested to the UK National Assembly that “in view of the need to establish a more stable means of income in future for the upkeep of this most important holy place” the National Assembly should “consider the feasibility of establishing an endowment fund for this purpose.”
In 2011 the National Spiritual Assembly felt able to institute an endowment fund for the upkeep and future maintenance of the Guardian’s Resting Place. The goal for this fund was set at £130,000 per year for ten years, to total £1.3 million. In two of the past three years we met our goal, though we entered this fourth of ten years with a deficit of approximately £35,000. And now there is already a serious shortfall; we face a deficit of over £97,000 for the year ending 31 December 2014, over £132,000 before 2015 starts. The National Assembly is confident that the friends in the United Kingdom will respond through their generous and sacrificial outpourings of funds to meet our target for the year.
Every pound contributed to the Guardian’s Resting Place Endowment Fund will continue to pay for this holy site for eternity!
With loving Bahá’í greetings,
National Spiritual Assembly
Vafa Ram
Treasurer