Owing to a reorganisation of websites the new link for the open access to The Childrens Lands instruction manuals in 3 volumes in English, Spanish and Portuguese now is http://mundodeania.org/category/programas/tierra-de-ninos/manuales/

The Foundation sugggested to the natural history museum and ANIA that this project should be linked to our Ica project and to the promotion of interest in the fate of the Huarango tree. we suggested that an area be dedicated to a live exhibit of huarango in a micro environment and this idea has been…

A proposal is being examined to contribute to sponsorship of this project that will be viewed by 70000 visitors a year. Full details of the outline proposal are in the attached PDF

The Foundation remains committed to the restoration of the organ at St. Mark’s Church. This was moved in the early 1950s from the chancel to the back of the church and has not had serious maintenance since. Aidan Platten, the vicar, has done wonders in renewing seals and cleaning out accumulated detritus which has made a huge…

The Foundation has made a gift towards the raising of £100,000 for the expansion of the College Library to be renamed The Pantin Library in honour of the late Prof. Billy Pantin, Professor of Medieval History. In addition the Foundation has raised a further sum of £18,000 from independent charitable sources.

The Division of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development of UNESCO has officially recognised The Childrens Lands projects as ‘an official activity within the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. This is a quite timely initiative and helps in promoting a new vision of a more just and sustainable world. It offers a…

Such has been the popularity of the Spanish edition of the three instruction manuals for forming a Childrens Land project that the first edition has sold out. The Foundation has therefore decided to sponsor a reprint of 500 copies of each of the thre manuals in march 2012.

As announced in October 2010 it was our intention to place the Instruction Manuals in open format on line for anyone to upload . The manuals have now been perfected illustrated with cartoons using the ANIA cartoon personality to promote ‘greeness’. The manuals themselves (3 of them) are too large for this site so I am posting the direct…

The Foundation received its best ever Christmas present – a letter signed by all the children at the Santa Cruz project thanking for their Magic Forest, the fresh water well, the planting and all the other things apertaining to the project. The smiles of the children say it all…………. Enlarge the photo and click on…

In the summer of 2011 the Foundation made a grant for educational fees to a promising Spanish cellist at the Guildhall School of Music. The Foundation also made a grant towards the publication of a catalogue raisonne on Goltzius by Larry Nichols due to be published in 2012 by Davico in the Netherlands.

Please open the attached PDF to see the progress on the site of this project and scroll down to the second page.

The scheme has been up an running for four months now since reconstruction. The following message was received on June 13th:- Dear Patrick and Warwick  To communicate with great joy that after 4 months of interrupted operation of the micro hydro scheme of Chambamontera.  This ceremony has been organized with the people and authorities of…

By May 2011 much of the groundworks to the children’s enclosure had been completed including the new freshwater tank and ground tank. Please see the attached PDF for illustrations.

In order to see the scope of the new project please click on the PDF link below for a full expose in Spanish

The success of the previous projects, the adoptation of the scheme in several other countries worldwide and the success of the multi-lingual manuals has led the Foundation to back what promises to be a new show project in tandem with the Orbis Pictus Trust. The scheme after extensive planning with Joaquin Leguia was commenced early…

I am delighted at long last to announce that as of mid-February the totally rebuilt and re-installed electrical scheme in Chambomontera and El Eden is up and running between the hours of 5pm and 11pm Mondays to Fridays and 10am to 11pm at weekends. The whole system was rebuilt and upgraded to three phase with…

We are pleased to announce that the English language version has now been completed and may be viewed at :