We have a number of different schemes for supporting our home, tailored to the needs and interests of our supporters. Please choose the one that best matches your interest. Giving can be in cash or in kind or you may choose to undertake an adventure or a project to raise money to support us.

GIVING IN KIND AND FUNDRAISING SCHEMES

Volunteer Scheme

Volunteering with us can be a life-changing experience and something useful for your personal skills and career.

We have opportunities for occasional assistance for local volunteers and for short and long term assignments for international volunteers.

Support in kind

This option may be of particular interest to our supporters in India. Our home operates on a very low budget and our girls place enormous value on the few material possessions that they have. As we develop the infrastructure of the Baale we are also planning to make the campus a model for sustainability, using solar heating and lighting amongst other environmentally friendly technologies, and we would value any support to make this vision a reality.

In the past we have received help with dress materials, school books, school bags, toiletries, mattresses and blankets as well as offers of free medical care, computers and paint.

Adventure fundraising Scheme

Do you have a particular talent, or a challenge that you want to undertake? If you think that we might be a worthwhile cause that you would like to fund raise for in pursuit of your talent, then the scheme may be for you. In the past, our supporters have climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, sailed across the Atlantic, organised Christmas fairs and auctions of promises and even made their own jewellery for sale to support us.

If you participate in this scheme, click on this button to set up your fundraising webpage and to get started.

DONATIONS

Individual donations will be allocated to our general funds. However, you may prefer to make a donation to one of our specific funds, details of which are given at the bottom of the page.

MAKING A DONATION

Indian donors should make all donations payable to Paraspara trust which currently funds the operations of the home. Cheques should be posted to the address given below. Donations will be eligible for exemptions under 80G.

International donors should choose one of the methods below:

Online Donations

If you would like to make a single donation, you can do so online by clicking here

to access our secure space on the Charities Aid Foundation website

Alternatively,if you would like to make a regular donation, by direct debit, you can also do this online by clicking here

to access our secure space on the Charities Aid Foundation website

Or, for UK donors, if you have a preference for donating through JUST GIVING, either in a one off payment or through a regular donation, please click here:

UK taxpayers will be able to benefit from gift aid if they use either of these approaches.The gift aid declaration forms part of the on line donation process.

UK taxpayers will be able to benefit from gift aid if they use either of these approaches.

US taxpayers, able to give US$500 or more, and wishing to benefit from tax deductible giving can make a donation through CAF America.

Please download a CAFAmerica gift form which you will need to send to CaFAmeria with your donation, which can be by cheque, stock transfer or credit card payment.

Donations by Cheque and enquiries into our fundraising and volunteer schemes

India

Please make cheques payable to Paraspara Trust, indicating your donation is for The Baale and post to:

Paraspara Trust

No.17/2, 1st Floor,
7th Cross,
Bandappa Road,560022
Yeshwanthapura
Bangalore
India

International

Please make cheques payable to The Friends of Baale Mane Gopalapura and post to:

The Friends of Baale Mane Gopalapura

29 Stoatley Rise
Haslemere
Surrey
GU27 1AG
UK

UK donors paying by cheque who would like to make a gift aid declaration, please download the declaration and reply card here

SPECIFIC FUNDS TO WHICH DONATIONS CAN BE ALLOCATED

Providing a place for a girl at the Baale Mane

There are currently 52 girls at The Baale Mane and it costs on average RS37,000 or £500 in operating costs to keep each girl for a year at out current level of expenditure. To help us achieve our goal of doubling this level of expenditure we are offering the opportunity to donors to provide a place for a girl at the Baale. These places are available to donors willing to contribute at least RS3750 (£50) per month and can offer the opportunity for donors to attach their funding to the progress of a particular girl if this suits the donor's requirements.

The Operating fund

Our current operating costs are as little as RS2500 (£35) per day, but this is not enough. We keep costs this low by involving the girls heavily in their own welfare and by engaging the support of volunteers. We have immediate needs that will increase the costs to RS4200 (£60), primarily involving the recruitment of additional staff. We are seeking regular donors to cover a day’s operating costs. A donation of as little as RS35 or £5 per month will cover a day’s operating cost: RS420 or £60 per month will allow you to cover costs for a day each month, and enable you to choose your date.

If you wish your donation to be allocated to one of our funds outlined above and are paying on line, of for further information about the place scheme please contact Chris Harrison, the Chairman of The Friends of Baale Mane Gopalapura

Email: charrison@baalemane.org

Phone: +441428654945