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Book your tickets for our London drinks reception
January 18th, 2025
Hear from Batemans trustee and award-winning conservation architect Paul Crosby, who travelled 18,000 miles by motorbike from our hostel in south India to his home in Cumbria, capturing dozens of historic buildings along the way with his wonderful line drawings ...
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Celebrations at this year’s Diwali
November 26th, 2024
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Read our 2024-25 newsletter
October 31st, 2024
How our former students are thriving in the world of work... news on our outreach programme... some lovely pictures from Chennai... latest fundraising news. It's all in our 2024 newsletter. ...
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Amanda Morris-Drake: reflections on her Chennai visit
October 25th, 2024
We are so sad to report that trustee Amanda Morris-Drake died in October 2024, after a short illness. During 2023, she had visited Chennai to see the work of Batemans-Satkaarya for the first time. Below are the reflections she shared ...
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From Chennai to Cumbria – an epic ride
October 23rd, 2024
Trustee Paul Crosby took time away from work early this year to fulfil a challenge he'd first considered whilst in Chennai volunteering for the Batemans Trust in 1998. During that year, undertaking conservation work for Batemans, he had dreamt of ...
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Batemans/Satkaarya wraps arms around more children
September 8th, 2024
Thanks to your support a new dimension to our activity in Chennai has been launched: Satkaarya’s wraparound care programme. Wraparound care is provided for needy children whose home environment is chaotic, unstable and often even dangerous. These children are impoverished and ...
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