Buriton's Village-to-Village charity was able to deliver over 2,000 supplementary reading books to boost school libraries in our 'adopted' community in Ghana during October.
The joy on the faces of the children (and teachers) when they received these extra books had to be seen to be believed.
All the hard work and help provided by people in Buriton is richly appreciated 3,000 miles away in tropical Africa.
There's a new twist to the Buriton Parish Calendar for 2016 - but it's an old twist!
Each month will provide a picture of the parish from a bygone era - photographs from across the last century.
Also known as "PM's Question Time". In Buriton Village Hall.
This highly entertaining Quiz Night, orchestrated by Paul Martin, is bound to sell out quite quickly (the last five years have completely sold out) - so please book your places soon.
It?s only ?5 per person with all money raised going towards improving living conditions in Buriton?s sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana.
The popular Downland Singers will present their Summer Concert "Songs for the Seasons" in Buriton on Saturday 4th July at 7.30pm.
The singers have provided special concerts in Buriton in 2011 and 2013 and are delighted to be returning to the village to raise money for good causes again.
For this next concert Downland?s theme of the seasons provides plenty of variety for all tastes - from the classical to the light-hearted and includes songs from several shows.
Britain's Got Talent may be back on the telly but in Buriton all eyes will be focused on village performers.
Villagers and their friends are parading their secret skills at a Buriton’s Got Talent show in the parish church on Saturday, April 25.
The event is jointly organised by St Mary’s Church, Buriton, and Buriton Village to Village group which supports sanitation and education projects in the village’s sister community Dominase in Ghana.
Buriton's 'Village-to-Village' charity has arranged another successful inter-school Reading Competition in and around Dominase - with hundreds of children taking part.
Nine primary schools took part in the competition - an initiative inspired by Buriton's work with the Local Education Authority in the area.
Each school selected its best reader, boy or girl, in each of their six age-based classes and these children were then all brought together to be tested in front of a special panel of judges in Dominase.
One of the first wells that Buriton had provided in Dominase had stopped working - but recent efforts have brought it back to life
The repairs were made possible thanks to generous funding from the estate of a donor to the Osiligi Charity which helps with clean water projects elsewhere in Africa: http://www.osiligi.org/clean-water-africa/
Bill Gosney's light hearted look at the history of sanitation attracted dozens of people to his talk in March and raised about ?150 for Buriton's sister community of Dominase in rural Ghana, West Africa.
The talk provided a fascinating insight into the history of something that we all now take for granted – and a world tour of toilets including the Orkney Islands, Rome, Northumberland, Africa, Japan and Burma.
A light hearted look at the history of sanitation and the significant part the British have played in its development. Not to be missed: don't poo-poo it!
Bill Gosney is an entertaining and amusing speaker – and he just happens to know a lot about toilets.
Buriton's annual antidote to ordinary quiz nights launched a new 'regular giving' initiative for the community's link with Dominase - and raised almost ?1,000 for West African children.
With the village hall being ?out of action? this popular charity Quiz Night was held in the magnificent Tithe Barn, Ditcham (courtesy of Jeremy & Margaret Oates).
The venue provided a splendid backdrop for a highly entertaining evening, orchestrated as usual by Paul Martin.
