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.

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.

“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.

Future Events

• Sophie intends to swim up and down Everest

We had Nepalese crafts, plants and homemade jam on sale. There were ploughman’s lunches, hot dogs, homemade cakes etc. on sale in the refreshment area and, of course, a raffle. Amongst a range of prizes, one lucky winner took home a piece of garden sculpture, another won a weekend in Filey.

From left: Thea Revell (jnr helper)/Sophie Revell (Sec)/Mike Brewer*/Anthony Revell, Trustee and Sculptor/Jenny Brewer*/Neil Revell (Trustee)/Corey Revell (jnr helper)/Jan Revell (Chairperson) *Mike and Jenny Brewer's son Chris is the original founder of the project in Aruchour.

Mountains	Urchin
Flame	Waterfall
Window	Spheres

Our major fundraising event for 2008 was a Top Of The World Jazz Concert.

In November 2008, Djangology captured the attention and enthusiasm of a large audience at Trinity Methodist Church, Loughborough with a stunning programme of jazz inspired by the Quintette of the Hot Club of Paris. Richard Smith also gave us some inspired classical solos. It was a wet, stormy night outside but every member of the audience must have been glad they make the effort to turn out – none of us wanted the music to stop. It was a truly memorable evening. We launched our new calendar for 2009, introduced our range of greetings cards and raised £1600 for the work in Aruchour.

We are grateful to Trinity Church for providing the venue, for the Church members who came along to provide technical support and serve refreshments – and, of course, a huge thanks to Djangology.

Ben Holder - Violin, John Smith - Guitar, Steve Peters - Bass, Richard Smith - Guitar

Ben Holder, whose wild style and brilliant improvisations had thrilled the jazz fans in the audience, draws the first winning ticket for the raffle from Sophie Revell (Sec.)

Raffle Draw

In April 2008, our chairperson Jan Revell went out to Aruchour again. This time she took with her Pete Bird, a photographer. Pete, seen below being greeted and honoured by the children at Sarbodoya School, is a supporter of Tilden Project Nepal and wanted to help us achieve a wide range of photographs of the work we are doing in Nepal.
We are very grateful to him and many of the new photographs on the website were taken by him this year, further examples of his work are on his own website at www.highkeyimage.co.uk

These photos enabled us to produce a 2009 calendar to raise funds for our work programme.

]]> http://tildenprojectnepal.org.uk/2008/09/2008-news-roundup/feed/ 0 http://tildenprojectnepal.org.uk/2008/09/goats-for-families-in-need/ http://tildenprojectnepal.org.uk/2008/09/goats-for-families-in-need/#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:43:48 +0000 dw77 http://tildenprojectnepal.org.uk/?p=131 This year we are about to branch out a little by providing goats to families who are exceptionally poor.

There are many families without any employment, they usually have a little land so they can grow their own food, but no money coming in. To purchase a goat costs £20; with a goat they are able to produce a range of milk, yoghurt, cheese etc and this enables them to improve their standard of living.

The committee in Aruchour are currently exploring ways of introducing a viable scheme.

More photographs and full details can be seen here.

The Project has also funded five locally built bookcases for Buddha School

and a new roofing panel to improve light in the classrooms at Buddha School

Thanks to a generous grant from the Oundle Rotary Club, we have been able to fund the essential building work, prepare and equip a playground, complete the interior of a newly built room and provide basic toys etc.

The new nursery will be called   The Andrew Nursery in memory of Andrew Pemberton who was tragically killed in a car accident in January 2008.  The Pemberton family are supporters of Tilden Project Nepal.

Building work on the Andrew Nursery started in March 2008

Building a wall to keep the children safe at Andrew Nursery

The nursery building with playground cleared                The finished wall