Everest Trek

Everest Base Camp

We have run our flagship trek for almost 10 years now and have decided the time has come to hand over responsibility for organising and running the trek to a reputable company in the UK. This gives our supporters security in knowing they are being guided by "the best" as well as considerable flexibility of not being tied down to a single date in the calendar. In addition there will be adaptable fundraising targets. We are pleased to announce that we are now using KE Adventure to guide our fundraisers on this trek and will shortly have details here on dates, costs and fundraising guidelines.

Trustees Visit Nepal

Trustee News

Very soon two of our Trustees will be visiting Nepal on quite different missions. Champa will be in Kathmandu for a month across November and will spend extensive time in each of our five schools. We are attempting to begin communication between the schools and ourselves as well as with our supporting schools in the UK. She will have meetings with business contacts to seek financial support and to explore the potential for setting up a permanent business support group. It is also likely that she will have meetings with a number of politicians on the current government policies on primary education and in particular meeting one of the UN Milennium Goals in this connection.

Andy is leading some of our supporters on a trek to Everest Base Camp but will also spend a little time in one of our Kathmandu schools. The small group have raised significant funds for the charity and we wish then every success in their adventure. In each case they have paid for the trip themselves with 100% of donations going to the charity.

You can follow progress of these visits on our newsblog, just click the main link on the left. 

St James School Joins Us

In recent weeks we have been helped by our first UK school at Haverigg to approach a number of others to potentially join with us in offering Nepal Studies in their curriculum. This has led to the St James school in Millom, south Cumbria to contact us and we have visited the school on three occasions now to meet with the head teacher, Nerissa, her staff and the school council.
Their enthusiasm was obvious in seeking to begin learning about Nepal and they are now planning their approach.
The picture above shows us with some of the school council who were dressed up on the day for some activities related to Book Week which was when we visited.

Events News

Hadrian's Cycleway

Well after a broken arm in May and shocking weather across the summer, the Trustee Chairman at last completes the 170 miles of hadrian's Cycleway. 

Starting from Ravenglass in Cumbria I set off at 7am on Tuesday 16th September and within the first hour had got lost 3 times! (poor signposting rather than bad navigation.....). I was on my hybrid bike which was loaded up with spare clothing for an overnight stop so I wasn't exactly motoring like I was on my Boardman road bike, but an average of 12mph was OK. Lunch in Silloth, then onwards through the slight rain to Carlisle where the route became a bog for two miles around the city and along the river. Out of Carlisle and following the line of Hadrian's Wall I arrived in Brampton at 4pm having completed 103 miles in the day. Not bad for an old git!

After a nights refuelling and a good sleep I was off at 7.30 am with better weather forecast but a bit colder. Also, I now had the pennines to cross so at times it got quite hilly. Still I was well fuelled with energy drinks, bars and gels as well as one banana which I peeled and bloody well dropped in a gritty road. However the extra roughage probably did me good. Onwards along the Tyne and through Newcastle before ............. finished, hooray.

I must say I treated this as a physical challenge rather than a meander up the Cumbrian coast and along the Wall, but I have walked the Wall before so it doesn't have the same attraction.

Overall, around 14 hours on the bike with an overnight stop, quite good going especially since around £1000 was raised for the pot.

Will try to do the Fred Whitton Lakeland Passes in a couple of weeks, but the weather may be against me.