Volunteering Thursdays

  • Every Thursday 10am - 4pm

    If you wish to meet people and work together for a good purpose, do pop in to engage with the volunteering team.

    The Centre holds weekly volunteering day on Thursdays 10am-4pm, and during those days you can enjoy free communal lunch with others. You can come only for a short time or for the full day.

    Get in touch with our volunteer coordinator if you wish to come and start volunteering. You are welcome to visit and just meet us and get to see the place to begin with.

    Please let us know if you are attending, so we know how many to cook for.

  • The works vary according to the time of the year, weather and your skills and interests, but you can volunteer for cooking, cleaning, small DIY like painting etc., garden works from weeding to planting and landscaping. If you have any other skills, that you can think might be useful, please let us know!

  • Please let us know if you are joing the day and if you wish to have lunch. The lunch is served 1pm and is vegetarian / vegan. Let us know if you have dietary requirements. We are able to cater vegan & gluten free, but for more complex needs and severe allergies, we recommend that you will bring your own lunch.

  • We really appreciate all the volunteering help, regular or occasional, so we try to arrange it so that you could come another day if Thursdays are not good for you. So, if you cannot make it on Thursdays, but would like to volunteer occasionally, please get in touch with our volunteer coordinator through the link below, to arrange another day.

Volunteering & Community Day 6th July

  • COMMUNITY & VOLUNTEERING DAY
    10am Short meditation (15min) in the shrine; after a cup of tea & day's job share
    10.30am-1pm Volunteering in the house & garden
    1pm-2pm Lunch break
    2pm-3pm Volunteering in the house & garden
    3pm-4.30pm Discussion (Theme Buddhist funeral arrangements, death and dying preparation)

    5pm Film Evening (a Dharma themed film)

    You are very welcome to join the full day, or just parts of it.

  • ACCOMMODATION
    If you are coming to volunteer for a full day and need accommodation, you can arrive already on Friday, and stay also Saturday night if needed. Meals (breakfast & lunch) and accommodation (Fri & Sat night) will be offered for free for the volunteers.

    If you need accommodation during the weekend, please email palpungukaccommodation@gmail.com

  • These days are for the community to spend time with each other in a more informal manner, working together at the Centre / in the garden, and later in a day there’s also a film evening. We usually focus on a specific volunteering project these days because many hands make light work! Sometimes these days can also have an invited speaker, or a discussion around a specific theme. 

Film Evening 6th July (5pm)

  • We will hold Dharma film evenings in the Centre's lounge about once a month. These evenings are open to everyone.

    These film evenings are also a part of our community day, so we welcome you to join us for the day too. However, if you cannot make it for the day, join us for the Film Evening!

  • Dalai Lama Renaissance is a 2007 feature-length documentary film, produced and directed by Khashyar Darvich, and narrated by actor Harrison Ford. The film documents the Dalai Lama's meeting with the self-titled "Synthesis" group, made up of 40 Western "renaissance" thinkers who hope to use the meeting to change the world and resolve many of the world's problems. The meeting took place at the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India in September, 1999.

    The film won 12 awards, was the official selection in over 40 international film festivals, and played in cinemas in over 100 cities in the U.S., as well as other countries in the world like Germany, Austria, Switzerland.

    Through the film the audience sees the clash of egos that soon developed among the members of the group and their assistants, as each member attempts to mold the meeting to fit their own personal expectations.[citation needed] Ultimately they discover they cannot hope to change the world until they undergo a personal transformation. Assisted by the often light-hearted musings of the Dalai Lama, each member comes away uniquely changed by their experience.[citation needed]

    The film includes original music by Tibetan musicians.

    Source HERE