Community
Office bearers
If you have ever tried to find out who to telephone at a sangh in a city you do not live in, you already know the problem this page is about.
Why this is so hard to find
Most sanghs do not have a website, and the ones that do often let it lapse. Office bearers change every year or two, so a number printed in a souvenir in 2019 rings a man who stood down in 2021. What actually circulates is a photograph of a printed committee list on a WhatsApp group, forwarded until nobody can say when it was taken.
The consent rule
We publish every contact we hold for an institution — a sangh’s office number, its email, its address, and the mobiles of the office-bearers who actually answer, because for most trusts that is the only number that works. Each is published with the person’s name and role so a caller knows who they are ringing, and every contact block carries a link asking us to take a number down, which we do on request, without asking why. What we never publish is the family directory: that is app-only, behind a login, and no family record reaches this website.
Where a number on this site came from a community directory rather than from the institution, the page says so on the number itself and asks you to confirm before travelling. That label is not a disclaimer; it is the difference between a fact we were given and a fact we found.
How a sangh gets listed
Write to us with the institution’s name, its address, its office contact and the current office bearers with their posts. Say which of those contacts may be published. We list it, free and permanently, and we come back to you once a year to ask what has changed. Until self-service editing arrives with the app, changing a listing is one message to us.
