Sanata Trust

The Sanata Trust (SANCHAT) is a registered charity and consists of two Trusts, one based in the United Kingdom, the other at Gilgil in Kenya. The UK Trust endeavours to generate funds to support development and ongoing costs of the Restart centres. Trustees travel to Kenya at least once a year and are in regular contact to progress plans and fundraising. The UK Trust Committee has seven members all of whom share a passion for the work the Trust undertakes with children.

UK Trustee Helen Bowden at the Restart Office in Oct 2011

Helen's daughter Kate (and admirers)

UK Trustee Geoff Davies on a visit to the Agri Project Dec 2011

Ted Maidment

Ted Maidment, chair of the UK trust is a former headmaster of Shrewsbury Public School.

Ted, a very good friend of the Coulsons, is a frequent visitor to Kenya and a great supporter of the work they do with the children in their care. Ted uses his knowledge and experience of the education system to help guide the Coulson schools in terms of policies and practical day-to-day management.

David Cornwallis

David Cornwallis runs a Company specialising in the re-building and exporting of THWAITES dumper trucks. Through his business he travels extensively in Africa and has a good understanding of the problems experienced and feels that he would like to use his experiences to help where possible.

Helen Bowden

Helen has a background in marketing and business management and has run a printing and website design business, Orphans Press, for over a decade. When a customer returned from a visit to SANCHAT it seemed fate was demanding a link between the business, formed in 1873 to help Herefordshire's orphans, and the good work in Kenya. Helen visited Gilgil in 2009 with her daughter, Kate, and is committed to helping share the work of SANCHAT with those who can help either financially or in kind.

Kate Sowerby

Kate Sowerby has a very personal connection with SANCHAT having discovered on one of her many visits to friends in Gilgil, that her grandmother used to live in the house that the Coulsons now live in. Kate has since become very involved with SANCHAT sponsoring children in the Restart Centre and she is very keen to help raise funds to both improve the lives of the children in SANCHAT's care now and also to allow SANCHAT to fulfil its dream of a whole new centre for the development of the children.

Chris Conway

[Please click here to download visit report December 2011]

Chris teaches at Shrewsbury School. His connection with Africa began by teaching in Tanzania with VSO in 1975 where he learned to speak Swahili. His wider interest in Africa followed, and since then he has travelled frequently in East and Southern Africa, and taught in one of the “homelands” of South Africa in 1990. His experiences have allowed him to gain a broad knowledge and understanding of some of the issues affecting Africa and he is keen to put this to good use.