We are pleased to announce the February winners for our Top 100 Club Lottery. They are:
1st – Claire Booth £31.25
2nd – Pauline Schlamko £21.87
3rd – Stu Snell £ 9.38
A total of £125 was collected with £62.50 paid out in prize monies. Therefore the remaining £62.50 was raised for the charity.
Would you like to Join the […]
Our BASIG Golf Day, being held on the 16th May 2014 at Stoke By Nayland Hotel, Golf & Spa is now FULLY BOOKED! Thank you to all the teams that have signed up and supported the event – its going to be a great day and night!
We can also announce that we have secured the […]
Martin Englefield visited Gambia and the school in early December to review the educational processes and ensure that some of the more formal areas around the school’s accounting, tax and labour were being properly managed.
As an initial summary prior to reporting on those actions achieved by Martin, it is worth reporting that the political situation […]
Martin Englefield set off at the end of last week to visit the school in Gambia to check on progress being made and to ensure that everything is going well with the running of the school.
Martin’s main objectives is to ensure that the appropriate education processes are being maintained and are in line with the […]
We are pleased to announce that the Top 100 club lottery draw, launched last month, has gone really well. We had 19 people participating and they raised a fund of £95, with 50% going to the charity fund. The remaining 50% (£42.50) was paid out to the winners Martin Englefield (£21), Del Preece ( £14.87) and […]
A great evening was had on Saturday 5th October for our Race Night, raising important funds for the BASIG project (Build a School in Gambia). The grand total at the end of the ‘meet’ was a fantastic £1500. What a super result for the organisers, providing much needed funds for the various projects underway.
The evening […]
The team left Gatwick for The Gambia at 09.30 Tuesday 23 July, members of the group included Trustee’s Julie, Helen, her Mum Dianna also Billy who helped with the original build, his partner Christa and myself. More than our usual quota of baggage saw us fully loaded with school and admin equip along with many […]
BASIG Trustees and members invite you to join our “Top 100 Club”
Club members pay £5 each month into the Charity’s bank account by standing order. Fifty per cent of the total collected becomes the prize fund, which is distributed by monthly draw, and the remaining 50% goes directly to the Charity. The prize fund will […]
The BUILD A SCHOOL IN GAMBIA project is hosting a fund-raising golf day on 16th May 2014 to raise the funds required for ongoing funding of the MARTIN ENGLEFIELD NURSERY SCHOOL OF SUKUTA.
The entry fee for a team of four is £350.00. There will be a full program of events and the entry fee will include bacon rolls […]
Build a School in Gambia Charity Golf Day Report
The Build a School in Gambia Charity were delighted to have hosted their third annual charity golf day held recently on the stunning Gainsborough golf course at Stoke by Nayland on Friday May 17th.
At 11.00am 128 golfers teed off for a ‘shotgun’ start in chilly conditions, competing […]