Future Hope India

Future Hope India was founded by Tim Grandage in 1987 and registered with the Indian Trusts Act 1882 in 1991. Future Hope India provides opportunity through its homes, school, sports and medical programme to some of the most vulnerable children from the streets and slums of Kolkata.

A charity with a strong family ethos, we are apolitical and secular and have a 30-year track record of empowering street and slum children of Kolkata. Future Hope has committed and experienced staff, skilled to deliver efficiently and with care in the school and at the homes; and is governed by an eminent Board of Trustees. 

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Who Are We?

When school reopened after the Durga Puja break, we had brainstorming meeting on day one to remind ourselves Who Are We and we had some interesting thoughts from teachers and staff.

For us the child is at the centre of everything we do; we are about all-round development for the child; their families matter; their mental and physical health is crucial; co-curricular activities and the arts make them creative thinkers; our values of Trust, Care, Commitment, Tolerance and Opportunity guide us at every step and we will respond as conscious citizens to the outside world protecting our environment, from our trees to our earth and the ant to the elephant.

We agreed that our signatures will be as follows:
1. We will continue with our Individual Child Care Plans because every child matters. These plans will track the wholistic development of every child. Academic of course but also help with vocational and skills courses if formal academics is not something that the child can cope with. We will strengthen our resource room for Special Education, we will take the help of partners where we don’t have our own capacity, we will review this periodically and take corrective action.

2. We will be a green school and green organisation. No plastics and wastage of course, but also positive, innovative, affirmative action towards environment and climate change and carbon neutrality. Every teacher and every member of staff will have three action points to work on towards environment education and action. We will live this every day and in every little action or gesture we make.

3. Sports will be at the centre of our education as it is an equaliser for our children and brings values of teamwork, confidence, discipline and joy. We like winning trophies but we like the values of sports more.

We agreed on action points for each of the above. This also aligns us with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We have a caring team which will make this possible.