Best Sponsored Walk Yet!

Burnham Beeches turned out to be the perfect venue for our 2017 sponsored walk, with great parking, a good cafe and toilets, and beautiful surroundings – even the weather was good. We just needed the walkers, and this year we had 31 people, plus Smudge the dog, which broke all records! The 9 mile walk…

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Sponsored Walk – UPDATE

The meeting time for the sponsored walk on the 23rd September is now 10:30am by the Burnham Beeches Cafe for a 10:45am start. (Post code SL2 3PS, see map below). Burnham Beeches is north of Slough, on the west side of the A355 which goes north from Junction 6 of the M4. From the A355…

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Help needed!

Gujeshwari Shrestha is 47 years old and has been working at Lalgadh hospital for the last 18 years as a night orderly.  She first came as a young leprosy patient herself, and was admitted to the inpatient department with an allergic reaction to one of the anti-leprosy medicines she was taking at the time. As…

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NLT Annual Sponsored Walk 2017

Saturday 23rd September is the day for NLT office staff and friends to do the annual NLT sponsored walk. Having done Richmond Park and the River Thames several times, it is time for a change, and this year we are going to walk around Burnham Beeches in a figure of eight which should be about…

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Serious flooding and landslides in Nepal

Since 11th August, the heaviest rains for 15 years have brought landslides and widespread flooding to 27 districts in the south of Nepal, most of them prodominantly poorer areas, and several of them still recovering from the lasting effects of the earthquakes of 2015. Over 100 people have died, and many are injured or missing…

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