Keith Hammond

Keith is a qualified Chartered Accountant.  Since April 2005 he has been the Trust Secretary of the EST. His duties include working on the financial aspects of the EST, as well as organising Trust meetings and dealing with various compliance matters.

Keith has been a regular visitor to Amaravati, since first attending a meditation workshop at the monastery in February 1997. He usually goes on two or three retreats a year at the monastery. Occasionally he has led the Saturday Introductory Meditation Workshop.

Before taking up the Trust Secretary post at the English Sangha Trust he worked for 17 years for a large accountancy firm in London, specialising in company tax and later in designing and running internal training courses for the firm’s students.

His hobbies and interests include, long distance running, supporting non-league football, reading, organic gardening, and watching Columbo (though not necessarily always in that order).

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