The Trust's administrative costs in Nepal are paid by the British Ministry of Defence and every serving officer and soldier in Britain's Brigade of Gurkhas contributes a day's pay each year. However the Trust still needs to find about £3 million a year just to honour its present commitments. To do more to help Gurkhas break out of the cycle of poverty, disaster and disease that can so often blight their retirement - the Trust needs more.

Our commitment stretches for many years into the future. Any Gurkha soldier serving in the British Army today, together with his dependants, may one day require the Trust's help.

A regular payment to the Trust of just £20 per month will ensure that a welfare pension is paid to a named old soldier or widow on your behalf - perhaps from a Gurkha Regiment or Corps with which you have a special affinity.

Each welfare pension that is sponsored enables more of our hard won charity funds to go towards providing additional help, for example by special grants when hardship or disaster strikes.

Please consider supporting us in this way. Your sponsorship will be of direct benefit to a Gurkha ex-serviceman or his widow.

£240 sponsors a veteran for a whole year.