The 2nd Annual Build a School in Gambia Charity Golf Day has been run and won with 124 golfers participating challenging for both team and individual honours. The day was run again at Stoke by Nayland golf club and in very pleasant weather conditions which was a relief to the organisers considering the rather wet […]
Build a School in the Gambia (BASIG) charity trustees and members on Sunday inaugurated Martin Englefield Nursery School in Sukuta. The school is funded by our charity in the UK, founded by Martin Englefield and Alan Seager.
Speaking at the opening ceremony, Fatou Jallow, head-mistress of the school, said the school activities will be based on […]
The team are now back from their recent visit to The Gambia and can report that arrangements for the official opening ceremony on 21 September have now been finalised. There was a lot to do in a very short time with the team only being there for one week, but with each member of the […]
Having recently returned from their 4 week stint in The Gambia BASIG team members are pleased to report the school building project is running to schedule and within budget, so much so it can be announced a planned opening day has been scheduled for Monday 24 September after the local school holidays.
There are still matters […]
BASIG principle Martin Englefield has been in The Gambia during February checking on build progress and finalising advance preparations for when the team and volunteers arrive in force during the month of April to help with completion of the main build.
Martin was pleased to witness continued good progress with everything on schedule to meet the […]
Following award of the school building project in September to a local builder and following commencement of works in October, senior members of the BASIG team travelled to The Gambia in November so they could check on progress. Great excitement was gradually overtaken by frustration when the team learned that builders were facing problems not unusual to the […]
BASIG are pleased to announce that the construction phase of the school building project will get underway in mid October. A contract for 80 % of the build has been awarded to a local Gambian builder and ex-patriot Eric Whitehead, his knowledge and expertise of Gambian style build projects are very wide ranging. The charities […]
Following on from the very successful charity golf day fund raiser the BASIG team are very pleased to announce they are to seek firm quotations from local builders within The Gambia to commence work on the school in Sukuta mid October with a view to completing the project in April/May 2012. Martin Englefield said “we […]
What started out as a modest attempt at raising funds for the school building program saw the event staged at Stoke by Nayland Golf Club exceed all expectations.
A total of 30 teams entered the event which was held on the Gainsborough course at Stoke and an amazing £12500 was raised for the children’s charity, a […]
