DIARY DATES The dates for TWOAT events are as follows: For Sponsored Walk information please scroll down this page. We have had a very generous new offer to open a garden for us in Kingswood on Saturday 24th June – more details nearer the time. April is a busy month for TWOAT supporters as we will be enjoying an Open Garden for TWOAT at Meon House, 4 Meon Close, on April 16th from 1pm to 5pm, we will be selling teas in Keith Lewis’ NGS…
Key FW Food & Wine GF Gift HL Holiday & Leisure ML Meal SV Service 2015 AUCTION RESULTS Lot No Details of Promise Winner FW1 A boneless marinated shoulder of English lamb from Chapman and Son Butchers of Tadworth John Tedder FW2 Goods to the value of £20 from Tadworth Fine Foods Sally Nethercott FW3 Margie Fox’s Amazing Trifle (serves 8 to 10) Jenny Shaw FW4 Margie Fox’s 3 layer Coffee Cake made to order Heather Spanswick FW5 Welsh cakes…
Around 70 people attended St John’s Hall to hear Sir Edward Clay, former British Ambassador to Rwanda, talk about the genocide that occurred in 1994 and what might be done by the international community to prevent future such catastrophes. As a result of the meeting and with Gift aid reclaims TWOAT will have raised about £1,000 for two projects – one working for peace and reconciliation in Rwanda and another organizing health camps in nearby Uganda where many Rwandan refugees…
Sir Edward Clay was the non-resident British Ambassador to Rwanda in 1994 when that country suffered the horrors of genocide. He will be talking to a meeting organised by TWOAT at St John’s Hall, Station Approach, Tadworth, KT20 5AB (opposite the railway station) on the evening of March 11th with the topic:“Rwanda 1994;Never Again?” Doors will open at 7.30pm. This meeting will provide a rare opportunity for those interested in the modern history and development of Africa to hear from…
TWOAT supporters’ donations at our Annual Social Meeting have enabled us to help fund Sam Stevenson on her imminent project to Botswana with the HIV/AIDS charity Cricket Without Boundaries. You can follow her progress at CWBsam.wordpress.com, but here is a look at some of her previous work with CWB. http://youtu.be/fVABYqHLgLI You can also follow Sam on Twitter and see the work of the charity here.
Our Christmas Appeal this year was aimed at helping the teachers and children that we support at the Pastor’s School in Sierra Leone get through the terrible Ebola emergency. We are saddened to report that the school has been temporarily closed by Government Decree as part of the measures to contain the Ebola outbreak. The 5 teachers employed with funds that we send still of course need to be paid during this terrible affliction on their country. We understand that…
Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust Registered Charity No 286076 Annual Social Meeting (ASM) TWOAT’s ASM was held on the evening of Saturday 11th October in St John’s Hall, which had been provided for the charity at no charge by the church. Just over 50 friends and supporters of TWOAT enjoyed a fine meal of Lancashire Hotpot together with an excellent presentation by Peter Trenier from Westcott talking about the charitable project, Papua Partners, run by his daughter and her husband…
Chairman’s Message from our Newsletter published in September 2014 Full details of our income and expenditure will be given at our Annual Social Meeting (ASM) on October 11th. However, we would like to record that during the last 12 months we have been very generously supported by a number of local organisations including various church groups, Walton May Fayre and Walton Primary School. One of the committee’s most important objectives for this year was to try to spread awareness of…
STOP PRESS We have set up a new online donation facility for TWOAT using CAF donate – please visit our page here https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/22337 Other methods ofSTOP PRESS We have set up a new online donation facility for TWOAT using CAF donate – please visit our page here https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/22337 donating to TWOAT include transferring money directly to our bank account or sending a cheque made out to TWOAT to our Treasurer Antony Hawker at The Holt, Alcocks Lane, KT20 6BB. You can…
Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust Registered Charity No 286076 Dear Visitor Thank you for visiting the Tadworth & Walton Overseas Aid Trust web site. to contact TWOAT please email me at Mike.Fox2@NTLWorld.com or telephone 01737 350452. Mike Fox, Chairman TWOAT