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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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  • It really pays to keep on trucking!


    September 8th, 2024
    ‘This year’s Batemans catering stall at the Truck Festival in Oxfordshire was as crazy and brilliant as ever,’ writes trustee Alex Jacob. 'With 45 wonderful volunteers enthusiastically helping to chop, cook, stir, open tins, wash up and serve about 2,000 ...
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