A very Happy New Year to all and we are looking forward to exciting times for the charity.
We have grown from a small UK charity with limited resources and a small board to a charity now supporting a range of activities including the sponsorship and sharing of artefacts for exhibition at museums in Sarawak and access to Brooke-era papers online for academic study and research, with four independent Trustees now forming the board. We could never have imagined the hardship that the pandemic years of 2020 to 2022 brought to so many communities around the world, and even now, many of us are still recovering from the impact of those 'lost' years.
In spite of this, the charity continues to have a clear focus and direction to furthering its aims to inform, enrich and inspire the public about the Raj history including continuing its work to provide public access to the Burrator Estate in the UK, once home to Rajah James Brooke, near the Grade-II listed tombs where all the Rajahs are buried.
