How to Support the Václav Havel Library

Financial contribution

The aim of the Václav Havel Library is not only to create a museum mapping the period of historical changes in the life of our country and celebrating the life and work of a person, whose role in the transformation of our country into a democratic society is indisputable and who has not only played a significant role in societal life of the Czech Republic, but has also significantly contributed to its literary heritage. The Václav Havel Library should become a multicultural centre which will serve both the academic community, students and their teachers and the wider public and which will enable them to meet with significant Czech and international personalities over current topics.

The activities of the Václav Havel Library are partially financed from the funds of Czech and international institutions. However, these funds only partially cover our activities and the operations of the organisation. We endeavour to acquire the remaining finances, for example, by selling our publications or by organising cultural events, but you can also contribute. Your material or financial support means more to us than just a financial contribution or donation. You will become a partner for us in the community of tolerant and perceptive citizens which we are endeavouring to build.

If you have decided to support the Václav Havel Library by means of a financial contribution, you may make your contribution via our bank accounts.

Bank accounts

ČSOB a.s., Na poříčí 24, 115 20 Prague 1

Account numbers:

  • 7077 7077 / 0300 CZK
  • 7755 7755 / 0300 EUR
  • 7747 7747 / 0300 USD

It is possible to support the Václav Havel Library not only financially, but also by means of sponsor participation at the events which the library organises within the framework of its activities. If you want to offer sponsor assistance, please contact us at the hereafter stated address or telephone number.

Tax exemptions for our donors

Physical entities (according to section 15, subsection 8 of the Income Tax Act)

Physical entities may deduct the value of their donation from their tax base, provided its total value in the taxation period exceeds 2% of the tax base or amounts to at least 1000 CZK. In total, it is possible to deduct a maximum of 10% from the tax base. This must therefore involve minimum donations in excess of 1000 CZK or amounts which are higher than 2% of the tax base.

Legal entities (according to section 20, subsection 8 of Income Tax Act)

Legal entities may deduct the value of their donation from the tax base, provided its total value in the taxation period exceeds 5% of the already reduced tax base or if it amounts to at least 2000 CZK. This must therefore involve minimum donations of 2000 CZK or an amount which is higher than 5% of the already reduced tax base.

More detailed information can be found in Income Tax Act no. 586/1992 Coll.

Thank you to all donors, sponsors and institutions for their kind support and help.

Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter

„I am a child of the age of conceptual, rather than mystical, thought and therefore my god as well – if I am compelled to speak of him (which I do very unwillingly) – must appear as something terribly abstract, vague and unattractive. But it appears so only to someone I try to tell about him – the experience itself is quite vivid, intimate and particular, perhaps (…) more lively than for someone whose “normal” God is provided with all the appropriate attributes (which oddly enough can alienate more often than drawing one closer). And something else that is typical of my god: he is a master of waiting, and in doing so he frequently unnerves me. It is as though he set up various possibilities around me and then waited silently to see what I would do. (…) His Last Judgment is taking place now, continuously, always – and yet it is always the last: nothing that has happened can ever un-happen, everything remains in the “memory of Being” – and I too remain there – condemned to be with myself till the end of time – just as I am and just as I make myself.“

Václav Havel:
Letters to Olga – essays written in prison, letter
August 7, 1980