How your donations help

Rs 7200

A YEAR PROVIDES NUTRITIOUS MIDDAY MEALS, TIFFIN AND FRUIT FOR A CHILD

Rs 5800

A YEAR PROVIDES CLOTHING, BEDDING & TOILETRIES FOR A CHILD

Rs 4900

A MONTH PROVIDES A CHILD WITH AN ALL ROUND EDUCATION TO CHANGE THEIR FUTURE

Rs 14600

A MONTH SUPPORTS A YOUNG PERSON TO REALISE THEIR POTENTIAL AT UNIVERSITY

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Future Hope has FCRA registartion and a SBI (NDMB) bank account.
For foreign donations in India please contact Tim Grandage for the details tim@futurehope.net

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Payable to Future Hope India. Post to 1/8 Rowland Road, Kolkata 700020, West Bengal.

Future Hope India does not have any refund policy for the donations received from any person or organisation

Future Hope India can provide Income Tax Exemption on local Indian Rupee donations

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. 

News

Kolkata Supporting Kolkata's Children

Future Hope supported by SVP (Social Ventures Partners) organized its first Supporters’ Evening in Kolkata, India on 14th October 2022. The event was a huge success and the collective response of the evening surpassed everyone’s expectations! Future Hope not only raised funds but also gained friends and goodwill. This is very encouraging and important for us as we grow and expand further. Kolkata supporting Kolkata’s children is what we need most and this will aid us in helping many more children and make their dreams come true. 

Click here to read more in the Telegraph India article

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.

Future Hope is growing - with the team and children of Khelo Rugby becoming part of the family.  

Khelo Rugby is all about being in the community - playing rugby, which we all love - but also supporting children as they grow up with school and college education, or communication classes.

Working with nearly 2,000 children in 32 communities in Kolkata, a few hundred in the Saraswatipur tea gardens in North Bengal, Haripur in Jharkhand and Bangalore, we are excited to get to know more about them and bring our 35 years experience of creating opportunity to the young lives of the super children of Khelo Rugby. 

At this exciting time for us all our CEO Sujata has wasted no time in getting out to meet some of the children and welcome the young leaders to Future Hope.

At the Khelo Rugby Sunrise Centre in Saraswatipur Sujata met with many as we hosted 150+ children following a rugby tournament. The children are all from families that work in the local tea garden, remote from the main city of Siliguri, where future opportunities are few. With their own small educational support project and partnerships with good companies we are changing that. There is also the small matter of 11 girls from the village having played rugby for India! 

There is much to be done, but with our joint experience we hope to brighten futures for many more children.