Christchurch in Walton-on-the-Hill was the venue for “Sing Carols” led by Reverend John Gordon to raise funds for TWOAT. The highlight of the evening was provided by a choir from Walton Primary School who beautifully performed a repertoire of songs from their Christmas Show based on Dickens’ story of Scrooge. Mike Fox, Chair of TWOAT, told the children and the fifty or so adults attending about a school for 150 children of refugees from Myanmar where TWOAT has used money…
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For details of our recent Incredible India Event please go here. I am delighted to tell you that both the BBQ organised for us by Roger Ponsford and his friends in September and our Annual Social Meeting (ASM) in October were great successes with the money generated for our projects being nearly £500 by the BBQ and around £1300 by the ASM. I was very pleased to announce at the ASM that Shirley Gladman has accepted an invitation to join…
Recent News We organised both a tea party and a curry dinner in St John’s Hall, Tadworth, on Saturday March 30 to help us support a project in India. They were a great success in total attracting over 100 people to hear Revd. Anita Matthews, Trustee of the charity called CRS, which is based at the Cathedral in Kolkata, speak about its work amongst the very poorest slum dwellers in that city. Perhaps the most moving story concerned a community…
NEWS 2017 SPONSORED WALKS 3RD MAY 2017 MIKEEDIT Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust’s two sponsored walks in May attracted the largest ever participation with 46 walkers taking part across the two events and raising of the order of £2,000. On May 19th and on May 27th when Digby the Labradoodle also participated. The walkers traversed the Downs from Epsom Race Course to the Sportsman in Mogador via Headley returning via Walton-on-the-Hill. The walk was enlivened with anecdotes from local historian,…
For reports from our projects and other news please download or view our most recent Newsletters. FROM AUTUMN 2021 NEWSLETTER THE ‘KAKAMEGA PROJECT’ (RUSH), KENYA We have received greetings cards from the children we sponsor to attend the RUSH Academy School and have been kept in touch with developments there via Zoom meetings with the Kenyan staff. The feedback we have been getting has been effective via International Needs the charity that took over from the Surrey based school teachers…
Click on picture to enlarge We are delighted to announce that Antony Hawker has accepted an invitation to join us. Antony and his family live in Kingswood and all play prominent roles at the Church of the Good Shepherd where Antony himself is a Churchwarden. Unlike most of the committee Antony is still involved in the world of work and so regrets that he will not always be able to attend TWOAT events but he has already started to contribute…
Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust’s two sponsored walks in May attracted the largest ever participation with 46 walkers taking part across the two events and raising of the order of £2,000. On May 19th and on May 27th when Digby the Labradoodle also participated. The walkers traversed the Downs from Epsom Race Course to the Sportsman in Mogador via Headley returning via Walton-on-the-Hill. The walk was enlivened with anecdotes from local historian, Jean Clew. The record turnout was a…
Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust is organising the same Ten Mile Sponsored Walk on two occasions in May on Friday 19 and Saturday 27. The start will be at 9.15 from the “Lunch Box” kiosk near the “Beefeater” pub overlooking Tattenham Corner on the Derby racecourse (post code KT18 5PP). The walk will go across the racecourse, past Langley Vale and continue to Headley passing the new plantation of trees which will become a memorial to those who lost…
To go to latest correspondence with Nepal go here We had been relieved to hear that the village and school we support in Nepal had only slight damage from the initial earthquake but on Friday 15th May we received the grim news that the second quake had devastated the village and rendered the school buildings unsafe. Modern communications are such that the local TWOAT contact in the village, Sherpa Rudra, managed to send an email on Friday May 15th– this is an…