News

Financial Statement 2006 :  The Trust has completed its second Financial Year and the first Income and Expenditure statement may be viewed on the Finance page

Baraimu Update - Autumn 2006 : John and Faith Nyota have been three years in the Wimbledon Circuit. They were planted there by the World Church Organisation and one of the conditions was that they take a three month furlough after three years. So they set out for Kenya this Summer. John went out for June to August. Faith joined him with the children in July and whilst John bought the children home at the end of August, Faith stayed on during September.

Whilst there, they were able to progress the construction of the school and saw it with its roof on. John took some photos and these can be seen on the Autumn Update page.

The Midsummer Charity Concert on 24th June, has so far raised £638.00 for the "Toto Simba" project. Some monies were donated and Gift Aided so we shall benefit by another £91.56 pounds when the taxman eventually pays up. This will bring a grand total of £729.56. Well done everyone and many, many thanks to the artistes, audience, front of house and backroom boys, in fact all who made a thoroughly enjoyable evening possible.

Baraimu Update - April 2006 : The building of the school/craft workshop/community centre is now moving on apace with construction up to the lintel level, ready (almost) for the roof to go on. More photos have been received and may viewed on our Photo Update page.

Kenyan Trip - August 2005 : This has now happened and the team have been debriefed to find out what, if any, improvements can be made for the next trip, currently scheduled for Summer 2007. Everyone who went found it a very emotional experience and something which they would not have missed for the world. The villagers in Kenya, although not having very much of their own, were generous to a fault. There's many a lesson to be learnt by all of us.

Information from the various journals that were kept, photos from the many cameras and even a DVD from film shot by Rob King are all being distilled and as soon as more information is available, it will be made available via this web site.

In the meantime, a diary written by the Wimbledon Circuit Superintendant, Rev Barrie Tabraham, can be downloaded by right-clicking here and selecting "Save Target as" to save it to your own PC. This will give you a taster of what is to come. Beware it is 21 pages long and 108kb in size!

20th June 2005 : Gift Aid Now that we have charity status, we have heard from the Inland Revenue that ALL donations now qualify for GIFT AID. This means that for every pound donated by a tax payer, the Chancellor will add another 28p.

Gift Aid donation forms are now available from the Trustees and may also be downloaded from here. In order to make regular payments via a Standing Order from your bank, please contact one of the Trustees. We cannot at this point in time publish the Trust's bank details on line as the Internet is open to abuse.

14th May 2005 : Charity Status The Trust has now gained charity status and has now been entered in the Central Register of Charities at the Charity Commission website www.charitycommission.gov.uk

Fund raising events

The amount raised by the events below totals £2,920.20 - a big thank you to all those who arranged, took part or donated.

The Four Big Brunches in April, May, June and July have raised £637.00 for the Trust.

5th March 2005 - Sweet & Low Music Concert at Ruxley Methodist Church - £160.00 raised

12th March 2005 - Food & Entertainment Evening at Martin Way Methodist Church - £200.00 raised

21st May 2005 - Merton Park Music Society concert at Martin Way Methodist Church - £150.00 raised

9th July 2005 - Garden Party at the Manse, Stoneleigh Methodist Church - £802.20 raised

9th July 2005- Quiz Nignt at Martin Way Methodist Church - £156.00 raised

12th July 2005- Charity Concert at Martin Way Methodist Church - £425.00 raised

Not only but also - the Stoneleigh Barn Dance raised £150.00 and a retiring collection on 6th June also at Stoneleigh raised - £240.00.

Sponsorship

17th April 2005 : Mini-Marathon. Jennifer & Rosemary Fernando, 14 year old twins from Martin Way Methodist Church, who also run for the Hercules Wimbledon Athletic Club, ran for the Trust in this year's Mini London Marathon. They raised £301. Well done girls and a big THANK YOU from the Trust.

24th March 2005 : Base Funding pledged! In order to achieve chari table status, an organisation must be able to show that it will have at least £1,000 income. We are please to announce that this base income has been secured for the forseeable future by the churches of the Wimbledon Circuit who, between them, have pledged a total donation of £1,200 per annum.

Donations

£5,000 has been received from Martin Way Methodist Church to seed the Trust.

Ad hoc personal donations and collections during services e.g. Good Friday service