Recognising lifelong cultural work
GSN starts from a simple question: what does responsible care look like for those who have given their lives to teaching, composing, performing, broadcasting and preserving tradition?
A care and palliative support vision for those who hold our traditions — gurus, teachers, artists, writers, community elders and cultural workers.
Guru Support Network (GSN) sits alongside the project’s heritage, artists and community participation pillars. Use these links to understand the wider Aandaal ecosystem, Booking ID participation, and Seva partner routes.
The Guru Support Network is an emerging framework to connect elders and senior practitioners of culture — including spiritual teachers, public speakers, TV and radio personalities, classical artists and community organisers — with practical care: financial stability, medical assistance and, over time, a network of palliative care facilities linked to heritage hubs.
How Seva Partners support GSN:
Seva Partners are well-wishers who want to walk with Aandaal by offering time, skills or
goodwill — helping the long-term cultural, care and palliative vision grow steadily and responsibly.
To be recorded as a Seva Partner, you will need a Booking ID.
This Booking ID is automatically issued to anyone who books 10 ANDAL Coins or more
as a token of commitment to the project’s early development.
Once you have your Booking ID, simply fill in the short Seva Partner form (linked above).
Your Seva details are linked silently to your existing registration — no email steps required.
GSN starts from a simple question: what does responsible care look like for those who have given their lives to teaching, composing, performing, broadcasting and preserving tradition?
Rather than one-off charity, the aim is to build a thoughtful pathway — from basic financial stability to medical support, home care and, where needed, palliative care in dignified settings.
Over time, GSN imagines a chain of partner facilities and palliative care collaborations, connected to key cultural and spiritual locations, so elders can stay close to the traditions they nurtured.
The Guru Support Network is in its early design phase. The direction is clear: to create an accountable, transparent and respectful system that can sit alongside The Aandaal Project’s other long-term commitments.
In practice, this includes:
The emphasis is on partnership, not patronage: listening to what each person or family feels is appropriate, and working within those boundaries.
GSN does not replace families, institutions or existing systems. Its role is to complement them where possible — especially in bridging gaps that appear late in life.
All of this is subject to resources, partner capacity and responsible governance under the UK Community Interest Company (CIC) structure that guides The Aandaal Project.
If you know a senior teacher, guru, artist, broadcaster, scholar or community elder whose health or circumstances would benefit from this kind of structured thinking, you are welcome to introduce them to the GSN concept.
You can share a brief note with: name, field of work, city/country and a simple one-line description of the current concern.
Spiritual teachers, artists and cultural figures who are comfortable doing so may share a short blessing or message for The Aandaal Project. With consent, these can appear as part of the “Supporters, Gurus & Influencers” section on the main site.
This is entirely optional. Some may prefer a quiet connection focused only on the care and palliative aspect — that choice will always be respected.