In spite of massive operational challenges in Nepal and a tough fundraising climate, we have continued to make great progress in our Nepal programmes.

The pledging process for the Big Give Christmas Appeal has now opened - there has to be a six-month lead in to our major fundraising effort of the year. Can you please join me in making a pledge?

As his annual fundraising challenge for Pipal Tree, the charity's Founder, Philip Holmes, will be taking on the 186-mile coastal path in support of the Lily's Leaves project work in Nepal.

In the midst of the cost-of-living crisis we have just received our biggest-ever individual donation that will transform the prospects for children at a school in Madhesh Province, southeast Nepal.

Pipal Tree will be taking part in the Big Give's Green Match Fund appeal to coincide with World Earth Day on the 22nd April 2023. All online donations towards our Gurkha Memorial Forest project will automatically double in value!

While work is underway at the first of our Gurkha Victoria Cross forests, we are thrilled to spot the wildlife showing up at our Dhanusha Bird Park forest site, including endangered species.

This Valentine's Day we're inviting our supporters to reduce their carbon footprint by not sending conventional cards; instead, we're offering the chance to do something that will benefit the environment in the long term.

Trustee Caroline Milne visited our education projects in Nepal and provided voluntary consultancy to the teachers.

Pipal Tree is now using the Restor platform to showcase its reforestation projects in Nepal.

Our Founder/CEO Philip Holmes receives coveted award as an entrepreneur.

Our Christmas 2022 Big Give Appeal aims to raise the funds we need to sustain and expand the Lily's Leaves programme in Nepal. This includes setting up a regional production and training centre in Sarlahi District of Madhesh Province.

A BRANNGO webinar presented jointly by Pipal Tree and The Mithila Wildlife Trust on our joint reforestation and afforestation work in Nepal.

We are pleased to share with you one of the most bizarre, yet inspirational, stories that we have heard in over two decades of working in Nepal. This is the stuff of fairy tales!

This year, the Pipal Tree Big Give summer appeal will offer supporters a chance to have their gifts towards an innovative education project in Nepal automatically double in value.

This year, our Nepal partner, The Mithila Wildlife Trust, will be extending educational support to children at two extremely deprived communities in Dhanusha District, including those who live at the so-called "Thief Village".

Today I visited our Dhanushadham Bird Park forest project and was stunned by the success of the Miyawaki rapid-growth reforestation method that we are pioneering in Nepal.

Pipal Tree has released its 2021 Annual Report and Accounts that reflect an impressive bounce-back after the setbacks of COVID.

Pipal Tree Founder Philip Holmes makes a special bird mosaic to incentivise donations during Earth Day 2022 appeal week.

On World Earth Day 2022, Pipal Tree launches a Big Give matching appeal for its Dhanushadham Bird Park project in Nepal.

Today, we left the city of Janakpur, driving out into the sticks to visit the village of Bhatighari. Stopping off at Dev's reforestation projects along the way, we also went wildlife spotting on a dried-up river bed.

Touchdown in Janakpur! We've finally arrived at our home for the next few weeks. Not wasting any time, Pipal Tree partner and social activist Dev Narayan Mandal took us out for a history lesson and cultural experience.

On 28th May 2022 we will launch our ambitious ten-year Gurkha Memorial Forest project, a living memorial honouring the Gurkhas who have served in the British and Indian armies since World War 2. This is one of our series of reforestation projects that will see us plant at least 1,000,000 trees during our Decade of Action in response to the Climate Emergency.

Welcome to the first entry of our blog. Over the next month, Dan and I (George) will be working with various individuals representing organisations aiming to better the lives of the citizens of Nepal, also endeavoring to protect and reinvigorate its diminished ecosystems. Here is our first impressions from touching down in Kathmandu.

Pipal Tree's main thrust is the response to the climate emergency, with our initial focus being in Dhanusha District, southeast Nepal. After an enforced two-year absence because of COVID, I was able to spend three weeks in Nepal in February and here are my impressions.

Following our tremendous success in the 2021 Big Give Christmas Appeal, we have been able to deliver immediate help to children at a community school that we are supporting in south Nepal.

We are very pleased to welcome Mrs Rayner Rees as our sixth Trustee, bringing a wealth of experience in education and philanthropy to our Board.

Since March 2021, in partnership with Our Sansar, we have been operating a girls' refuge in Janakpur, southeast Nepal. It is the only one of its kind in a region where gender-based violence is endemic.

Pipal Tree is now funding educational support to children at a leper colony in southeast Nepal.

Our colleagues at the Bhatighadi Community Forest Users' Group (CFUG) have been awarded the prestigious Ganeshman Singh Outstanding Forestry Award for 2020/2021

Pipal Tree will be holding its annual charity dinner at the prestigious Victory Services Club on 30th November to coincide with the launch of our Big Give Christmas Appeal week.

Pipal Tree is delighted to be able to offer two guaranteed places in the exclusive 2022 Holy Island Marathon - you can be one out of just 25 runners in return for raising (at least) £1,000 in sponsorship towards our Nepal projects.

The Dhanushadham Bird Park is a new joint initiative by Pipal Tree and The Mithila Wildlife Trust through which we will merge art, education and the rapid-growth reforestation "Miyawaki Method" to create a forest that will provide a focus for birdlife, ecotourism - and inspiration for the next generation.

Philip Holmes is inviting you to join him for a leg or more of his Pennine Way challenge in September 2022

In our school capital development project in southeast Nepal, we are using eco-bricks to protect the environment, construct stronger and cooler buildings and reduce building costs.

This is an update on our reforestation project that has become a highly successful model for engagement with the local community and the Department of Forestry in Nepal.

Lily's Leaves' co-Founder, Lily Katuwal, visits Sarlahi District in July 2021 to assess needs and support vulnerable girls and young women.

Pipal Tree is taking part in The Big Give Christmas Challenge 2021 - it's your opportunity to double or even quadruple the value of your gift in support of our Big plans in Nepal for 2022 and beyond.

Pipal Tree has joined forces with Our Sansar and Guy's Trust to ensure that we met the needs of the poorest people during the latest COVID lockdown in Nepal

My personal summer challenge to raise funds for Lily's Leaves in Nepal

Pipal Tree offers you a chance to donate to either Education or Women's Empowerment projects (or both!) in Nepal with the chance of your online donation doubling in value through matching pledges available in The Big Give.

In spite of the operational restrictions and financial downturn that came with COVID, 2020 was in many respects Pipal Tree's "finest year".

Today Pipal Tree launches a one-week Big Give emergency relief appeal in response to the COVID pandemic in Nepal

The actress Amrita Acharia, who has Ukrainian-Nepalese roots, appeals for donations towards a Pipal Tree appeal for emergency COVID relief in Nepal. Through The Big Give, all online donations can automatically double in value.

Pipal Tree is working in collaboration with the Gemma and Chris McGough Charitable Foundation, the Nepal Department of Forests and the Mithila Wildlife Trust to restore a community forest at Bhatighadi, Dhanusha District, southeast Nepal.

When writing or updating your will, please remember Pipal Tree's work in Nepal that you can support as an enduring legacy.

We are inviting your support through The Big Give to Lily's Leaves, our partner social enterprise in Nepal. A Kathmandu project, this wonderful new initiative is already making a difference to the lives of vulnerable young women - female empowerment in action!

Teacher and teacher-trainer Caroline Milne joined our Board of Trustees in October 2020. She brings a wealth of experience within the education sector to the table, but also a compassion and commitment that has been forged and focussed through a tragedy in her own life.

Pipal Tree's involvement in the 2021 London Marathon will be different for two major reasons.

Our ambitious new school project in south Nepal blends three of our core interests into one harmonious plan

I was very pleased to receive these pictures this morning of our school extension project underway, as implemented by our local partner NGO, the Mithila Wildlife Trust.