Securing Gurkha heritage and their legacy
The Gurkha Museum Trust has been awarded funding from The National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Foyle Foundation in support of Project Kaida.
Project Kaida is an ambitious endeavour. We owe our progress to the unwavering support of our community. Our Friends of the Museum, along with the support from the serving soldiers and antecedent regiments, have contributed significantly to our success to date.
However, we still need to raise the final £620k of the total £5.2m required to deliver this transformative project.
Would you consider making a contribution to this once-in-a-generation project by contributing directly; organising a fundraising event; and/or helping to raise awareness of our charitable cause?
SUPPORT FROM EVERY SERVING SOLDIER
“To our Gurkhas, both serving and retired, The Gurkha Museum plays a crucial part in displaying their hard-fought heritage, forged from 210 years of service to the Crown. In order to ensure its future as a world leading museum, the Brigade of Gurkhas will have donated over £725,000 by 2028 through fundraising and donations from their pay to support their museum’s refurbishment. This will allow it to not only further showcase all aspects of the many military campaigns they have been involved in and to exemplify the Nepalese culture that binds the Brigade of Gurkhas together, but also for the museum to be better equipped to incorporate our future history as it is written.”
Colonel David Robinson, Colonel Brigade of Gurkhas
SUPPORT FROM THE FOYLE FOUNDATION
Lieutenant General Sir Peter Duffell KCB CBE MC, Museum Vice-Patron and for two decades a Trustee of The Foyle Foundation, writes:
“For 25 years The Foyle Foundation has been a distinctive and generous grant making charity, primarily sustaining and benefitting UK-based arts and learning institutions including museums. I am delighted that the Trustees have agreed a major grant of £150K to support the modernisation of the Gurkha Museum.
The Foundation has always recognised that if military museums are to remain relevant and attract wider audiences, then in addition to the historic past they need to reflect new campaigns and the changing nature of warfare itself – changes that need to be projected in ever-evolving contemporary displays.
In agreeing to a major grant, the Foyle Trustees were persuaded that the sound plans for the redevelopment of the Gurkha Museum would encompass these changes whilst ensuring that the military skills of the gallant and light-hearted Gurkha soldier and his close and enduring partnership with his British officers would continue to be recognised within the museum displays together with the other essential elements of over 200 years of Gurkha heritage and history and his homeland of Nepal.”
