The Why
We are planning these spaces because we have a deep commitment to providing services and spaces that will nourish and support us and others as we struggle under the pressures of modern life. We aim to bring people together – people from a range of backgrounds, life experiences, talents, and skills to explore what it might mean to be a human being who is deeply connected to the sacred inner dimensions of our lives and, from that base, able to make unique contributions to the world.
Legal Structure
SCIO. Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation. A SCIO may trade as a company and make profits that are not taxable, on the proviso that all profits are used in advancing the charitable work. May also receive Gift Aided donations from UK taxpayers.
Trustees
The Sanctuaries for Humanity team brings together their extensive professional experience in international and national charity management, retreat facility management and marketing, personal development program development and delivery, facilitation, building design and construction, organisational development, funding and financial management, and senior executive “C-level” management. In addition, the team has an extensive international network from which to draw expertise and suitable venues for the Sanctuaries for Humanity project.
Osanna Vaughn
Osanna is a world citizen who speaks English, Spanish, French and German fluently. She has lived and worked in France, Spain, Australia, the US and, more recently Germany and the UK, primarily making use of her languages in different fields of communication. She is a published author, as well as translator and sub-editor for Leica Fotografie International magazine, and is editor-in-chief of the Subud World News website. From 2005 to 2010, Osanna was Chair of the World Subud Association (WSA), and ex-officio member of the Board of Susila Dharma International Association (SDIA), Subud International Cultural Association (SICA) and the Muhammad Subuh Foundation (MSF).
As such she travelled all over the world making presentations at congresses and gatherings, attending Religions for Peace and the Parliament of World Religions events, and promoting a diversity of projects. Osanna is currently Chairman of the Board of WOW Borneo and a trustee of the Sanctuaries for Humanity initiative.
Osanna is the Chairperson of Sanctuaries for Humanity Ltd.
Annabella Ashby
Annabella originally trained in art and design. After having her family she gained a post-graduate diploma in Careers Counselling and worked for seven years in schools and colleges helping young people into work and further and higher education, before moving into management of the service in Suffolk UK. She moved on to work for the Improvement and Development Agency (IDA) for Local Government to develop the Careers Counselling Diploma into a qualification that was accessible as part time workplace learning.
Annabella gained a Master’s degree in Personal and Organisational Development. She worked in London at the IDA as a consultant working on various projects. Annabella’s most satisfying work was in organisation and team development when she coached local authority executive teams in finding fruitful and respectful cooperative working relationships.
Since her retirement she has lived in Portugal and Spain and returned to England to be a part of her family of grandchildren and to care for her father. She moved to Lewes, East Sussex in 2011 where she plays an active role in the local spiritual association Subud. She was elected as a Councillor for Lewes Council in 2015 where she served as Chair of the Personnel Committee.
Andrew Holloway
Andrew is a designer and maker. He completed an apprenticeship with A. Harris and Sons, traditional terracotta manufacturers in 1975, and went on to complete a BA in Ceramics at Farnham. He ran a studio pottery making wood fired stoneware with his wife, for seven years, before retraining as a carpenter.
He set up greenoakcarpentry.co.uk in 1987. This was the beginning of a lifelong career in design and manufacturing. He is passionate about the built environment and good design as a means to improve the quality of life for all. The company went on to win numerous awards for its projects. Andrew co-authored an authoritative book on oak timber framing; Green ‘Oak in construction’ in conjunction with Arup and TRADA in 2007.
Andrew sold the business in 2021 and is now a trustee of the Guerrand Hermes Foundation for Peace.
Following a mental health crisis, his focus has now turned to holistic well-being. He says, “Initially, I thought my experience a little unusual, now I know that it was, in fact, something many of us have gone through and we share a common bond”.
Irwan Freeman Wyllie
Irwan is a senior executive, consultant and educator with 50 years’ experience in the public and private sector. He has undergraduate degrees in Economics and Arts and postgraduate qualifications in town planning and education. His experience includes Bid Management, Outsource Management, Merger and Acquisition Management, Client Management, Transition Management, Program Management and Change Management whilst working for Compaq Computers, Hewlett Packard, and Volante in Australia.
He was MD of ASX-listed Computronics Corporation Ltd, one of Australia’s leading agricultural technology companies.
He is an award-winning lecturer and facilitator having taught at the University of Canberra, Southern Cross University, and in corporate training.
He has been Chairman and CEO of Dharma Care, an Australian charity that supports the most destitute and disadvantaged people in regional communities around the world. His career focus has been on assisting organisations and their teams to reach their potential. He lives in northern New South Wales, Australia.
He is currently Managing Director of Venture Capital Partners, a venture capital company with an international focus that is based in Australia.
He is fascinated by history, geopolitics, social change, and the visual arts.
Harman Scott
Harman was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He has 45 years of experience as an architect, working all over the UK and in Ireland on medium to large-scale projects in the commercial, industrial, retail, transport, domestic, community and worship-spaces sectors. Now retired from the mainstream, he continues to work as a consultant for properties belonging to the British charity, Subud Britain.
Much experienced in working on new and existing buildings, Harman finds success in a project by feeling for the ‘soul’ or guardian spirit of a building, the client body and the prospective users, while at the same time applying lateral thinking and practical worldly measures to achieve the intended aims. He is also the founder of the Visioning Spaces project being developed for Toronto, Canada. visioningspaces.org
Harman now lives with his family in rural Perthshire, Scotland, travelling regularly round the UK in his capacity as an architectural advisor.