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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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  • It’s raffle time!


    September 7th, 2024
    Want to help a bit more? Then why not enter our autumn raffle. It’s open to all, so do please encourage your friends to join in. You and they could win a lovely prize and all the money raised goes ...
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  • Our biker is back home


    September 5th, 2024
    Trustee Paul Crosby is back in the UK after his amazing fundraising ride on a Royal Enfield Bullet, made in Chennai, across half the world from India to the UK. After starting from the Batemans Trust/Satkaarya hostel for girls in ...
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