We know first hand that being part of high control faith or cult spaces can impact us financially. From the prosperity gospel teachings to the opportunity cost of being at services and events six days a week, to being so caught up in the system you have no other skills or qualifications when you leave - it’s a lot, and can leave us feeling like we’re being taken advantage of in other spaces too.

So we want to be transparent about money here. The Religious Trauma Collective charges (what we think are really good value) fees for practitioners to be part of our registry and we charge a fee for people to access our events after the initial free period is up.

In our first year of operation we are running on a shoestring and we’re happy to show you how we use our limited funds. We are also accountable to our advisory committee who receive a financial report each quarter.

The three of us don’t earn a wage from the Collective. We hope in time, to be able to charge some of the hours we put into making everything happen, but we’ll be open about that too when there is surplus.

We provide as much as we can for free on our website and point you to resources that have helped us. We want to be able to provide access for those who have been excluded from services or disadvantaged due to marginalisation and discrimination and will let you know how we will manage this too. Whenever we engage Indigenous people in events for example, we will ensure they are fairly compensated. 

There are real costs to running a platform like this and while it’s a passion project for us, we need to charge to meet these costs.

All of this to say, we get it and we’ll be open with you.