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The 2020 Spice Lunch is on!

Sunday September 13th at 12.30pm

Hosted by Nick and Mary Thompson at 27 Stocks Lane, Abingdon, OX13 6SS.

If the weather is good, please stay and have a socially distanced picnic outside. Bring your own plates, cutlery and drinks. Tables and chairs provided.

Chicken curry and chickpea and spinach curry, dhal, vegetables and rice and chapattis. (This can be packed individually or in group packs). Weather permitting, there will be an update about how our Batemans children and team (some of whom are pictured above) have managed during lockdown.

Tickets are £7.50 each; children under 10 go free.

To book, please email mail@batemans.org.uk, with your name and the number of people attending, and make your payment via www.justgiving.com/batemanstrust

There’s still time to take part in the 2.6 Challenge!

A huge virtual hug and thanks from all of us at Batemans/Satkaarya.

In just three weeks, our Circle of Support Appeal and Challenge 2.6 activities have raised nearly £7,500, and the money is still coming in.

And there’s still time to join the 2.6 Challenge.

It’s a nationwide campaign, launched to help charities plug an expected £4bn income shortfall due to Covid-19.

Anything with 2.6 or 26 in it will do!

Just think of your own activity based around the numbers 2.6 or 26 – anything goes.

So far our supporters have done everything from run relays equalling a final distance of 26.2 miles (the length of a marathon), spun plates, stood on their head for 26 minutes, pushed through to achieve 26 sit-ups, and done 26 cartwheels. It’s your choice.

For those of you whose athletic days are behind you, or never began, please support others – family or friends – as they do their very own 2.6 effort.

This is a marvellous opportunity to be part of something really big. Get active, have fun, and raise money to help our vulnerable children in Chennai.

You can donate now via the 2.6 Challenge website. Simply select The Batemans Trust (all three words) as your nominated charity and it will take you to our JustGiving 2.6 Challenge page. If you would like to be kept up to date with all our children’s activities please give us permission to see your email address. No one else can.

Or please transfer your donation directly to our bank with the reference ‘2.6 Challenge’. Batemans Trust; Account number: 21628984; Sort code: 404130.  Alternatively, please send a cheque to Batemans Trust, 27, Stocks Lane, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX13 6SS.

Thanks for your support – and please share your pictures via our Facebook page or email the best ones to info@batemans.org.uk

 

Building brighter futures: please donate via our 2019/20 wish list

Help build brighter futures for more disadvantaged children in Chennai by using Batemans wish list this Christmas.

For every ‘wish’ that you donate, we will send a special gift card that can be passed on to friends and family to let them know you have made a donation by way of a gift to them. Download the wish list to find out how to get involved and give a present that will really make a difference this Christmas.

How does the wish list work?

We will send gift cards to anyone donating more than £10 to the wish list.

To order one or more gift cards, donate via JustGiving, then email mail@batemans.org.uk with your name, address details and number of cards required.

Alternatively, print out the wish list, complete the form and post to the address on page four as soon as possible.

 

Major donation provides further momentum for Batemans’ new building project

Batemans’ drive to raise funds for a new school and boarding home has received a massive boost, thanks to a hugely generous donation by shareholders of a Chennai business.

The UK and Ireland-based shareholders of Meritgroup Ltd made the donation of around £80,000 following the sale of their data and technology business, which was set up in Chennai in 2004.

It means Batemans is now more than one third of the way towards our £280,000 fundraising target for the new building project.

Over the past decade, a number of former Batemans students have gone on to work for Merit, including 21-year-old Isabel Ireland who is currently working for Merit’s digital marketing team in Mumbai.

Cornelius (Con) Conlon, chief executive of Merit, said: “We have been based in Chennai for 14 years and the shareholders are conscious of how much we have benefited from our association with the city and its people.

“We felt that by donating to such a long-standing Chennai-based charity, it was a chance to give something back. We are delighted to be supporting Batemans and can’t wait to see the plans becoming reality over the next few months and years.

Anne Desir, chair of Batemans’ trustees, said: “Meritgroup, and particularly Con and his wife Natasha – who is a Batemans trustee – have been great supporters of Batemans over the years.

“We are so grateful for this hugely generous donation, which gives further impetus to our exciting future plans.”

Find out more about:

 

Be part of the Batemans-Satkaarya Grand 100!

The Grand 100 are 100 amazing Batemans supporters each pledging to donate £1,000 over a 12-month period.

Together they will raise £100,000 of the £250,000 we need to build a primary school and community training centre to help underprivileged children in Chennai, south India. For more detailed information about our plans, you can download our Development proposal.

How does it work?

To become part of the Grand 100, you can donate £1,000 right now via our Grand 100 JustGiving page or send a cheque to The Batemans Trust, 27 Stocks Lane, Steventon, Nr Abingdon, OXON, OX13 6SS (please write Grand 100 on the back).

To make a pledge to raise £1,000 over the year, please email grand100@batemans.org.uk

We will send you some fundraising support, a logo and a fundraising thermometer.

Who’s involved?

So far, the supporters that have pledged to be part of the Grand 100 include:

Spring Park Capital

Old Buckenham Hall School in Suffolk

CPL in Cambridge

Cambridge Sashcraft

Greenwich Free School

 

 

Help our young people find their wings: please donate via our 2018/19 wish list

Help our young people find their wings by using the Batemans Wish List this Christmas.

For every ‘wish’ that you donate, we will send a special gift card and an angel Christmas tree decoration that our children in Chennai have made by hand. Download the wish list to find out how to get involved and give a present that will really make a difference this Christmas.

How does the wish list work?

We will send gift cards to anyone donating more than £10 to The Batemans Trust Wish List. These cards can be sent to friends and family to let them know that you have made a donation by way of a gift to them.

To order one or more gift cards, donate via JustGiving, then email mail@batemans.org.uk with your name, address details and number of cards required.

Alternatively, download the Wish List, print it out, complete the form and post to the address on page four as soon as possible.

‘Educate a girl, empower a nation’: please donate via our 2017/18 Wish List

Educating girls has been a Batemans priority for many years and it is the focus of our 2017/18 Wish List.

If a girl can make it through primary and secondary education, the chances of lifting her and future generations out of poverty are vastly increased.

While Batemans has a proud history of enabling all the children in its care to fulfil their potential, we recognise that girls face unique challenges to access education.

Please help us continue to change lives this Christmas by giving a gift that will have a lasting impact.

How does the wish list work?

We will send gift cards to anyone donating more than £10 to The Batemans Trust Wish List. These cards can be sent to friends and family to let them know that you have made a donation by way of a gift to them.

To order one or more gift cards, donate via JustGiving, then email mail@batemans.org.uk with your name, address details and number of cards required.

Alternatively, download the Wish List, print it out, complete the form and post to the address on page four as soon as possible.