Coach House Alternatives

Gifts with a difference

that make a difference

Looking for a gift for a friend

who doesn’t need one?

Give a card instead and the gift

to someone who really does:

Wellington boots for a holiday home in Scotland

A shopping voucher for a woman in a refuge

Cataract surgery for tribal people in Kerala

Care for a street child in Kolkata

A desk for a school in Burma

Two fields of vegetables for women in Mali

Learn more about it overleaf and

choose from the full selection

We like to give presents, but often, the people we give them to don’t need them. Through Coach House Alternatives we can give to the people who really need our help and at the same time,

remember our nearest and dearest.

This is how it works:

You choose from the selection below, fill in the form and pay the given amount. You will receive a card [handmade, from one of our partners in Kerala, India] in which will be inserted another card stating what your gift will provide. The Balmore Trust will guarantee that your money goes directly to your chosen recipient. You can even ask for personal feedback.

If you are a UK taxpayer, you can make your gift even greater by signing the Gift Aid form, which will add 28% to the value of the gift at no extra cost to you.

This is what you can choose from:

East Dunbartonshire Women’s Aid (www.womensaid.org.uk)

EDWA has firmly established its credentials as an organisation providing support and refuge for abused women and children. Although their core funding is relatively secure, running costs are always in short supply. Women and children arrive with nothing so any kindness they receive from a stranger means a great deal.

A manicure for a woman in refuge (£15)

EDWA1

manicure

A pedicure for a woman in refuge (£15)

EDWA2

pedicure

An aromatherapy massage for a woman in refuge (£20)

EDWA3

aromatherapy

An outing to a panto for a woman and child (£25)

EDWA4

panto

A supermarket shopping voucher for a family in refuge (£5/£10/£15)

EDWA5

shopping voucher

An outing to cinema and McDonalds for a family in refuge (£25)

EDWA6

outing

Family Action in Rogerfield and Easterhouse (FARE)

(www.greatereasterhouse.co.uk/fare)

FARE is a locally run community project. It started at a public meeting in 1989 and now has 9 full and part-time staff working from a tenement block, which became available after some drugs related deaths made it ‘hard-to-let’. FARE runs youth clubs, sports activities, holidays for over a 100 children, a café, parent & toddlers’ group and support for some vulnerable families and youngsters. It is working hard to reduce tension between local gangs. The great majority of FARE’s staff, sessional workers, committee and volunteers are local residents.

2 table tennis bats for the Centre (£10)

FARE1

bats

Snooker cue for the Centre (£15)

FARE2

snooker cue

Week’s holiday with FARE (£50)

FARE3

holiday

Contribution towards sessional staff working with gangs (£100)

FARE4

sessional staff

100

The Lilias Graham Trust (www.braendam.org.uk)

The Lilias Graham Trust provides holidays at Braendam Family House for inner-city families who would otherwise not have the opportunity to go away together. It is in an idyllic setting in Stirlingshire, where families can escape from the stresses of poverty and share their burdens with other families and with a sympathetic and trained staff. Gifts will help maintain high standards of equipment within the House.

Wellington boots for children staying at Braendam (£10)

LGT1

wellingtons

Waterproof jacket  (£10)

LGT2

jackets

Duvet and cover  (£15)

LGT3

duvet

Up-to-date film on DVD for the library (£15)

LGT4

DVD

Admission for one family into Safari Park (£30)

LGT5

safari

Child in Need Institute (CINI), Kolkata, India (www.cini-india.org)

CINI has been working with severely malnourished mothers and their small children since 1974.

· For £10, a mother can be provided with food, accommodation, nutrition education and emotional support while her child is treated at CINI’s Emergency Ward and Rehabilitation Centre.

· CINI’s “Adopt a Mother and Save her Child” scheme provides care for a pregnant mother and her child up to the age of two, ensuring proper nutrition, vaccinations, child planning and education at a time critical to the child’s healthy development. Payment can be one-off, or in three annual instalments of £50. Sponsors will be sent three progress reports on the mother and her child.

· The “Early Childhood Stimulation” programme is a follow-up to AAM, and targets children between 2 and 6, making sure that the well-nourished child is nurtured until he/she reaches school age. Each payment of £42 covers one year of the programme.

· “Educate a Street Child” is a two-year programme focussing on bringing back school drop-outs into mainstream education. Each payment of £42 covers one year of the programme.

Food, accommodation and tlc for a distressed mother (£10)

CINI1

distressed mother

Early Childhood Stimulation [ECS] (£42)

CINI2

ECS

Educate a Street Child (£42)

CINI3

street child

Adopt a mother and save her child [AAM] (£150)

CINI4

AAM

150

Daynes Education Fund, South Africa

(www.saintbarnabas.org.uk/v1/objects/WPLOverseasAmajuba.pdf)

The Balmore Trust has been supporting this fund ever since The Coach House opened in 1980. It was set up to help black Medical Students during their studies, many of whom are unable to support themselves financially, but who, once qualified, can make a huge contribution to their own communities.

Medical Text Book (£25)

DEF

text Book

HiLDA Trust, Kerala, India (www.hildatrust.org)

HiLDA has been working amongst the poorest and most marginalised people of Wayanad in Kerala since 1987 to promote:

· Self-reliance through people-centred initiatives;

· Community participation in the development process;

· The empowerment of disadvantaged rural and tribal people.

It has established a large number of impressive programmes, such as micro-credit and community business, sexual health & HIV/AIDS, water harvesting & sanitation, organic agriculture, legal advice, leadership development and youth work.

The Balmore Trust has always been impressed by the energy and commitment of HiLDA and remains one of its main UK supporters

Umbrella (for walking to school during monsoons) for young

person in HiLDA’s adolescent programme (£5)

HILDA1

Umbrella

Steel shelf for one family to keep clothes and valuables free from

vermin and ants (£25)

HILDA2

Steel shelf

A goat for milk for young children & income generation for the

family (£40)

HILDA3

Goat

A clean toilet for a family (£50)

HILDA4

Toilet

(Note: Prices above may seem high. The cost of living in Kerala, one of India’s wealthiest states, is high, making things even more difficult for the very poor in remote areas)

Joliba Trust, Mali (www.jolibatrust.org.uk)

The Joliba* Trust supports grassroots development work with farming and cattle-raising communities in some of the most marginal areas of the West African democracy, Mali. Rich in human kindness and social cohesion, Mali has already suffered severely from the effects of climate change and soil erosion, which have pushed many people to the edge of survival in some of the most difficult living conditions in the world.

The particular focus of the Joliba Trust is on projects to help women and on environmental work for long-term food security.

* Joliba is the local name for the River Niger and means ‘riches of life’

For gifts, see next page:
Two weaned pigs (£6)

JT1

pigs

Two fields of vegetables (£10)

JT2

vegetables

Female sheep (£25)

JT3

sheep

Fruit trees for 30 women (£15)

JT4

fruit trees

Tools for compost-making (£30)

JT5

compost tools

Kottayam Social Service Society (KSSS), Kerala, India (www.ksss.in)

KSSS runs a large number of innovative social welfare programmes in the Kottayam Diocese for the poor and marginalised in its community, especially women, widows, handicapped, elderly and children, irrespective of caste and creed. Fr. Michael Vettickat, the organising Secretary of KSSS, visited The Coach House in 2004 and The Balmore Trust has been able to give support in a small way since then, in particular through last year’s Coach House Alternatives.

Play materials for ‘differently abled’ children (£3)

KSSS1

play materials

Spectacles for Senior Citizen (£5)

KSSS2

spectacles

Educational Street Theatre for AIDS awareness (£50)

KSSS3

street theatre

Cataract Surgery (£50)

KSSS4

cataract op

Wheel chair for ‘differently abled’ (£100)

KSSS5

wheel chair

100

Income Generation Project [IGP] for AIDS patient – self help (£125)

KSSS6

IGP

125

Sophia Mission Institute, Burma

The Balmore Trust has been supporting this highly regarded school in the Chin Hills in northern Burma for a number of years. Recently we have been helping with the construction of a new school building and persuading other agencies to follow suit, including the British Embassy in Rangoon.

The building of the new school has been a major achievement, but there are all sorts of other associated expenses we invite you to contribute towards.

A tree – Pine (for building), Cherry (for drinks) or Teising (for

furniture or food for goats) (£1)

SMI1

tree (please specify)

A chair for a Sophia student (£8)

SMI2

chair

A desk for Sophia student (£16)

SMI3

desk

Support for a Sophia student for one month (£15)

SMI4

maintenance

Salary for a teacher for one month in the school (£40)

SMI5

salary

A house for a teacher (£2,000)

SMI6

house

2000

Wells for India (www.wellsforindia.org)

Wells for India works in Rajasthan, India and is concerned primarily with the water harvesting and conservation in areas susceptible to drought.

· Stone gully plugs are built across water courses to slow down the flow of monsoon rain and allow the water to penetrate the soil

· Trees play an important part in stopping run-off of the rains, when they come.

· Check dams are built lower down the water courses to retain the monsoon water and allow crops to flourish.

· An orchard provides a family with nutritious fruit and a means of income generation.

A gully plug (£5)

WFI1

Gully plug

A tree (£10)

WFI2

tree

A check dam (£20)

WFI3

Check dam

An orchard (£40)

WFI5

orchard

If any of the gifts – UK and Overseas - are over-subscribed, the organisation to which they are sent will undertake, with your consent, to put your donation towards a similar project.

Find out more by looking up the websites

Charity craft, gift and coffee shop housed in a charming 18th century building

Open 10.30am - 5pm daily except Mondays

Balmore is on the A807 midway between Milngavie and Kirkintilloch

Member of the British Association of Fair Trade Shops

Coach House Alternatives

Order Form

Gift ref.	Description	Price £	Quantity	Total £
Example:
EDWA1	Manicure	15	2	30


















Total

Please fill in your order form and hand it in, with your payment, at the counter.

Alternatively, fill in your name and address overleaf and return the completed form, with payment [cheques to be made payable to The Balmore Trust], to The Balmore Trust, Viewfield, Balmore, Torrance, Glasgow G64 4AE.

If any of the gifts are over-subscribed, the organisation to which they are sent will undertake, with your consent, to put your donation towards a similar project.

If you, or the person on whose behalf you make the gift, would like to have feedback from the recipient, please provide name and address overleaf.

Official use only

Payment to Coach House

Card issued

Payment to Balmore Trust

Entered on file

Gift Aid Form

You can raise the value of your gift by 28%, if you are a UK taxpayer, by filling in the form below.

I, .....................................................................……………....... , a UK taxpayer,

of.............................................................................................…........................

..........................................................………………........ Post code……………

[home address of donor]

wish The Balmore Trust (Scottish charity no. SC 008930) to treat the attached donation and any I make from 6 April 2000 until I notify otherwise, as Gift Aid. [Note: The Ba