Osprey Clubs in The Gambia

Osprey Clubs in The Gambia

Sadly, the Coronavirus outbreak has reached Africa and the first case was confirmed in The Gambia in mid-March. All schools were closed for an initial period of 21 days in response, but there is every chance that the closure will last much longer. We were planning a...
With OLF in Africa : January 2020

With OLF in Africa : January 2020

Sitting at home now in splendid self-isolation on a sunny March afternoon, it seems hardly possible that exactly two months ago I was in West Africa with about a dozen ‘Osprey’ companions from Rutland, Dorset and Cumbria as part of the eighth expedition to Gambia and...
Spotlight on…. Paul Stammers

Spotlight on…. Paul Stammers

It was April 1998 and I had been volunteering with the Rutland Osprey Project for 2 years. Retirement was looming after 34 years of a career in engineering and the question was ‘ How would I occupy my time?’ As it turned out that was a silly question, as 22 years...
A new way of working

A new way of working

As I sit here, four and a half months pregnant with my second child and a couple of weeks in to strict social distancing for the foreseeable future, my mind can’t help but drift back and forth between how my working life changed after having my first baby and how it...