LPS School in Madagascar thank TWOAT
CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF HELPING SOME OF THE POOREST COMMUNITIES IN THE WORLD.
Autumn 2025 News.
Unfortunately 2025 has been in many ways catastrophic for overseas aid. Not only have both the UK and US Governments cut back the monies they have previously provided to eradicate poverty and disease around the world, but many other countries have also taken similar decisions This is not surprising given the perceived need to divert government spending both to re-armament and to dealing with the cost impacts of people migrating to the developed world to escape from warzones and repressive regimes.
Paradoxically the 12 months up to Sept 30th have proved to be the best financial year ever for TWOAT’s own fundraising. Final figures will be presented at our AGM on Nov 8th but currently it looks as if the total raised will be in excess of £51k. The main reason for this was the one-off impact of two of our supporters very generously offering to double match fund the annual value of new Standing Orders (SOs) set up by other supporters during 2023/24. This matched funding was mainly paid to us in this financial year as the final totals depended on whether new SOs were activated right up to the end of Sept 2024. These one off payments added at least £10k to this year’s total so we cannot assume that we will achieve the same again. The reason why we wanted to encourage more regular giving was because we have entered into a number of substantial ongoing commitments.
The three largest commitments this year are to pay £8,300 to the Little Sapphires School in Madagascar
At least £7,000 to the Emmanuel School for refugee children on the Thai border with Myanmar
and £6,000 to Mtandika Trade School in Tanzania
a total of £21,300.
This amount is probably more than half our current fundraising rate and there are 18 other very deserving projects, some also with commitments.
“Students really thank TWOAT from the bottom of their hearts for their daily food is fully of nutrition. “
“They pray for TWOAT members and everyone who participate for giving their food. “
“They also said TWOAT lunch
is more tasty than food in their houses.“
excerpts from
Emmanual School Myanmar Report 2025
Thanks to our supporters’ generosity fundraising activities including our Annual Dinner, our Street Collection, the Bottle Stall, two John Allinson Memorial Sponsored Walks and several open garden events have held up remarkably well.
We were especially grateful to the four owners of the gardens who helped make these events possible – Diana & Mike Gannon and Keith & Elizabeth Lewis in Tadworth, Sarah and Robin in Kingswood and Derek Parsons in Tadworth who sadly subsequently passed away and whose family generously donated the collection at his Memorial service to TWOAT.
If you have a garden that could be opened for TWOAT in 2026 please do contact us.
We have also been generously supported with funds raised by two events in Kingswood Village Hall – a Quiz and an International Food Evening.
We also benefitted from very generous donations from St Peter’s Church in Walton and from Kingswood Walton & Tadworth Horticultural Society.
Sadly this year several supporters have passed away, most recently Margaret Phillips, a previous committee member who left us a generous bequest. Bequests are an important source of income for many charities and a lovely way to be reminded of the generosity of previous supporters no longer with us.
Mike Fox
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