Thanks to generous donations, 11 boxes of children’s and young adults’ books have made their way from Montgomery to Pune, India to bolster the bookcase library at City of Child orphanage. In November 2019, as part of the Trefoil Topaz trip, Sue Michaels of Montgomery was volunteering at City of Child, the orphanage run by the Deep Griha Charity. Since the volunteering trip, Sue has been asked to give talks about the trip to a range of organisations. Rather than trying to raise money, which can be a challenge to send out to India, she thought she would collect children’s books for the library at the orphanage.
Orchard gift Montgomery Energy Group (MEG) has been gifted some raised beds and a pear tree for the community orchard. The raised beds were generously donated to the orchard by Gwyneth Depport who is moving away from Montgomery to be closer to her grandchildren, and wanted the raised beds, which her late husband Alan had made for her, to become part of the community orchard. She has also given the orchard a Snowdon Queen pear tree, now christened Gwyneth, and some rhubarb. All of these are a perfect addition to the orchard, which lies on a piece of land in the junction between the Newtown and Welshpool roads at the bottom of town.