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Aims of the Trust
| The East Sheen-Chengannur trust is a small registered charity which was set up in 1979 and officially registered in 1984 (the founder, Mrs Kay Mattin, previously lived in East Sheen in South West London - hence the name).
The aim of the Trust is to help the poor in Chengannur, Southern India; and elsewhere through sponsorships, gifts, grants to individuals, schools, and small organisations in need.
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| Where we differ from many larger charities is in our approach to donors and recipients. We maintain a personal approach to every type of aid and encourage personal contact between donors, their beneficiaries, the trustees and our project manager in India.
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Over recent years the administrative burden and costs in the UK and India have increased with far more regulation and effort need to comply with all the Government, Charity Commission and banking regulations. The work of running the charity is quite onerous and with no obvious successors to the current Trustees we do not want to find the Trust in a nightmare scenario where the work collapses either at the UK or India ends should anything happen to the current trustees. So, with great sadness, and after a lot of deliberation, we have come to the difficult decision that, after many decades of successful work, we will be closing the Trust.
2026 will therefore be our last full year of operation and we will stop taking money on 31st December 2026 but run for a further year after that to fully distribute the funds remaining and deal with all the administrative tasks necessary to close the Trust.
Obviously we cannot thank all our supporters enough, both past and present, for their generous support without which we could obviously have achieved nothing and we hope you will all understand this very hard decision that we have made.
Our newsletter 109 explains this in greater detail so if you would like a copy emailed to you please make contact with us. (We are currently unable to upload it due to some technical issues with the website) |
**** Stamp Appeal ****
Please send us your used (and spare new) stamps to:
Russell Mattin, East Linton, Keycol Hill, Newington, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME9 8NA.
Please ask your relatives, neighbours, friends, and colleagues to support us ... spread the word about our appeal - we want juggernaut loads of stamps!
Thank you for your support
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