The Teach Ghana Trust will be holding their first fund-raising event of 2012, a pub quiz at The Trader in London on Saturday 25th February.

The entry fee is £20 per person, which includes a professionally run quiz, and a buffet meal. You can enter as a team of between 4-6 people, or as an individual and we will place you in a team ourselves.

Our previous quizzes have proved to be a great success, and this year should prove no different! Prizes include a free pub meal, and champagne!

If you would like to take part, please e-mail info@teachghanatrust.org.uk

We are pleased to report that 89 boxes containing text books, and 11 containers holding clothes and assorted items have begun their journey to Ghana this week, where they will be distributed amongst a number of schools.

The task was no small feat, and was accomplished with the hard work of Nitharshan Srikanthapalan, Faye Daniels, Cyril Okpuno and Martin Burder who spent the best part of the bank holiday packing boxes and loading them onto a lorry! Thank you all so much for your help.

The books were, in the main, donated by Caludon Castle School (Coventry) and Nicholas Chaimberlaine School (Bedworth), and we extend our warmest thanks to them. In particular, Victoria McManus, Noel Devine and Tim James were instrumental in securing the donations and helping to pack, load and carry the books.

The shipment is due to arrive in Ghana on the 28th January, and we will update on our progress very soon.

The Teach Ghana Trust has been actively providing more grants for various projects in Ghanaian schools this year.

There are details and photos of some of the projects that are underway linked on the left hand side of our grants page.

Work to provide electricity to the Teshie school was successfully completed recently! We were sent photos of the working lights, and students can now continue to study after the sun has gone down!

There are more details and photos on the Teshie 5 page.

2010 was a very busy year for the Teach Ghana Trust, and a number of meetings were held throughout the year. If you would like to follow our progress in more detail, full minutes of all of our meetings are posted here.

Teach Ghana Trust Quiz

The Teach Ghana Trust held its second quiz event in order to help raise funds to further our cause in Ghana.

A great time was had by all, and a significant amount of money was raised for the charity. You can see details and photos at our event's facebook page.

Quiz Winners 2010!

A "Thanks" page has been added to the website! Click on the link to the left, or see details here.

An application for financial aid by the Teshie AMA 5 A & B Junior Secondary Schools was submitted and approved. See details here.

Progress has been swift at the Krobo Odumase Anglican School and the work is well under way. See photos of the work here.

Our grant monitor in Ghana, Fatawu Abubakar, today received the second installment for the Krobo Odumase Anglican School (see below). The installment will be delivered in the coming days. Monitor the progress of the grant here.

On Sunday 1st March, Dr Clare Chandler hand-delivered the first installment of a grant to the Krobo Odumase Anglican School. The Teach Ghana Trust will be funding a new classroom at the school named the "The Berry Room" (named after the late Baz Berry - see News item 3.1.2006). Read more about the project here.

Today, trustees Roscoe and Narsh left on an epic bike ride!

They will cycle from Land’s End to John o’Groats – a distance of approximately 1000 miles and they will do this without a support vehicle (i.e. they will carry their own equipment, clothes etc while cycling).

You can follow their progress on their blog here.

Ghanaian school

Earlier this year, The Teach Ghana Trust Chair (Narsh) visited a number of schools in Ghana and invited them to make applications for capitial grants from us. Two schools' applications have been approved by the trustees and a third is currently under review.

Procedures are currently being placed so that we can ensure that the grants are used appropriately and, once in place, the grants will be issued.

We feel the work of the Trust is now coming to fruition and that once the first grants are made, we will be in a better position to make a significant impact on schools in Ghana.

If you'd like to know more about the approved grants please feel free to contact us at info@teachghanatrust.org.uk or if you'd like to get more involved you may wish to visit our membership page.

Quiz winners

The Teach Ghana Trust held a charity evening at the Plum Tree Pub in Farringdon, London. The night was a great successs and included a Pub Quiz, dinner and dancing into the early hours!

A large amount of money was raised for the Teach Ghana Trust and we would like to thank everybody who assisted either by helping out or simply being there.

We will keep you informed of any future events right here!

The Teach Ghana Trust trustees and organisers are in the process of of organising a fund raising event to take place in early February 2007.

Hopefully this will allow us to showcase some of the work we are doing, as well as provide an exciting and entertaining evening for everyone who attends!

More information will be made available nearer the time.

In the meantime, Seasons Greetings to all from the TGT!

Over the past 4 months Baz Berry (with help from regulars at the Star in Haywards Heath and the assistant manager there, Claire McCord) has successfully raised over £1200 which was raised through a variety of means (from a pub quiz to birthday donations for Baz’s 70th birthday). The donations were presented to members of the Teach Ghana Trust at Baz’s birthday dinner on 3rd January and they have suggested that more may be on the way!

The Teach Ghana Trust is grateful to all the work put in by Baz, Claire and any others who helped to make their fundraising attempts so successful.

Claire and Baz, alongside the Star, Haywards Heath

On Sunday 16th April 2005 Narsh successfully made it to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro. Our thanks go to everyone who sponsored him or supported him through the climb.

You can continue to support this effort by clicking on the link here.

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