Charities

Charities

 Our staff support a number of charities, you may find these of interest to you.


Gurkha Welfare Trust

Support Those Who Served and their dependants. The Gurkha Welfare Trust was established in England in 1969. Its remit is to provide financial, medical and community aid to alleviate hardship and distress among Gurkha ex-servicemen of the British Crown and their dependants after they have returned to their homeland of Nepal.
[ www.gwt.org.uk ]

 

1st Bn. Royal Gurkha Rifles negotiate a wall in the Nahr-e Saraj region of Helmand province, photo ©bySgt IanForsyth, RLC CC bySA Licence
1st Bn. Royal Gurkha Rifles negotiate a wall in the Nahr-e Saraj region of Helmand province, photo ©bySgt IanForsyth, RLC CC bySA Licence

HeroRats / Apopo

Please consider helping to train rats to diagnose tuberculoses and find land mines in Africa so old war areas may be made safe.
[ http://www.apopo.org ] and

see the video on YouTube

"A Day in the Life of a HeroRAT-in-Training" from ApopoVideos.

“Rats helping to clear mines” by brett jordan is licensed under CC BY 2.0
“Rats helping to clear mines” by brett jordan is licensed under CC BY 2.0

 

National Museum of Computing.

If you are interested in cryptography and computer use in cryptography or its history then consider visiting The National Museum of Computing, Block H, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB Tel: +44 (0)1908 374 708
[ www.tnmoc.org ]

 

Colossus_Computer,_Bletchley_Park__A._Pettigrew_© _CC_by_SA_geograph.org.uk_-_1590874
Colossus_Computer,_Bletchley_Park__A._Pettigrew_© _CC_by_SA_geograph.org.uk_-_1590874