Tilden Project Nepal

The children of Aruchour have few toys. A packet of balloons we took on our last visit provided fun, games and happy laughter for several days.

The Tilden Project Nepal Calendar for 2011 is now available – twelve full colour photographs, A3 size when opened. See front cover to the right, with two extra pages and many photos showing the work of the project.

The price is £8.00 including postage and packing, order direct from us, see contact details here.

Don’t forget Top of the World 2010, our main fund raising event for this year is on Saturday, October 30th at the Corn Exchange Theatre in Stamford at 7:30 pm.

Some Sample Calendar Pictures

"View from my door" - When visiting Aruchour you never find yourself lost and alone - someone is always coming to smile at you, to look at you, or just to sit with you.

On my last visit to Aruchour, I found these classrooms at Ghante School. Teachers were apologizing there were so few pupils. "Many parents keep them at home when it is cold and wet" they told me.

Aruchour Visit – February 2010

Our first meeting with the Executive Committee for TPN in Aruchour in February 2010. The members are all wearing TPN shirts a gift from the Trustees in England. The lady committee members received TPN bags.

October 11, 2010

Many, many thanks to all those who attended our Top of the World 2010 events, we raised a grand total of £5000 which will go directly to help our work in Aruchour.

We were successful in engaging Djongology who gave  a sell-out concert for us in Loughborough in 2008 and also local musician Okus Milsom as a support act.

Everything is themed to Tilden Project Nepal:

• The date – 30th October – would have been Tilden’s 45th birthday.
• The title of the concert ‘Top of the World’ (used for all our events) links the geographical background of the project with the last music compilation put together by Tilden, titled ‘Top of the World’.
• Djongology play in the style of Stephane Grappelly/Django Rheinhardt – music Tilden loved.
• Okus Milsom – support act – as a small boy was close to Tilden.
• Samapatti Neeraj was a family friend and Tilden loved her paintings.

DJONGOLOGY

A fabulous group of musicians who will bring us a wide variety of music, featuring Richard Smith as classical guitarist whose skilled and sensitive play leaves you almost holding your breath ;  also young Ben Holder on the violin – formerly at the Birmingham Conservatoire, he has already established  a reputation as a jazz violinist known for his wild improvisations.

Nottingham Review Of Djongology 2009 “Djongology manage to pull off elaborate jams and jazz standards without a hint of pretension.  In fact they sound like a collection of highly trained session musicians and are almost flawless in their playing, yet their style and the feel of the music is more similar to a group of mates having an impromptu jam.The musicians were all ridiculously talented, but two in particular stuck out.  The fiddle player was so quick fingered and inventive it was quite frankly a little scary, and the lead guitarist left us all utterly speechless.”

SUPPORT ACT – OKUS MILSOM

Okus is a young local self taught singer songwriter influenced by The Libertines and Jamie T  but  educated by Dylan, Neil Young and Paul Weller.  He will introduce you to his own brand of Indi Acoustic folk  which was such a favourite at Little Bytham Music Festival last year.

TOP OF THE WORLD EXHIBITION

The Ill-Fitting Clothes of the World

This was also a retrospective exhibition of paintings and work by Samapatti Neeraj (earlier known as Wendy Hall) running all day (11:00 – 22:30) in the Corn Exchange complex – entry by donation.  She was a talented painter/illustrator  and a friend of the family. Sadly she died last year at the age of 60 having suffered from Parkinsons Disease for some years.
Her work ranges from dark mysterious pictures to light humorous works.  She always has a powerful message and a story to tell.  Much of the work on show will be on loan from people who loved her work in her lifetime.   It was her dearest wish to use her work to support Tilden Project Nepal.   We hope to have prints, posters and cards on sale as well as some her most recent unsold paintings.

VENUE:

The Corn Exchange Theatre Stamford is a 400 seat theatre built within the shell of the original Corn Exchange Hall – refurbished and run by volunteers.   The theatre is on Broad Street in the centre of Stamford, for details see http://www.stamford-corn-exchange.co.uk.

May 14, 2010

Joanna Lumley has generously agreed to be Patron of the Tilden Project Nepal.
We are enormously grateful for her help which will have an impact both here and in Nepal, where she has achieved ‘semi goddess’ status.

“I am proud to be a Patron of this beautiful little charity”

- Joanna Lumley

Recent Fundraisers

November 2008 – Top of the World Djangology Concert

£1,600

December 2008 – Year 2009 Calendar

£1,800

June 2009 – Garden Sculpture Exhibition

£2,500

Donations

We are indebted to those Trusts, organisations and individuals who have sent substantial donations in 2009.
Special thanks to our supporters who make regular monthly donations, these enable us to be confident of meeting our salary commitments.

Work continues with the smokeless stove scheme, provision of clean water supplies to schools, funeral shelters and pre-school nurseries. We have requests for provision of new nurseries and have just completed a new building at Buddha School.

TPN also now employs a librarian who we hope will help us extend our initial provision of books more widely in the community. The committee in Aruchour have been exploring extension of the goat scheme, chicken farming and a longer term project of tree planting. We will have more details after Jan’s 2010 trip.

The Trustees Of Tilden Project Nepal very much appreciate your continued encouragement and support.

March 04, 2010