The Secretary s Message

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1 Working towards a closer community Contact Us For General Enquiries: Harsha Trivedi , Chairperson, chairman@bsnl.org.uk or Trupti Joshi , Secretary, secretary@bsnl.org.uk For BSNL Hall Hire: Text on or at hall@bsnl.org.uk For Membership Enquiries: Hitesh Purohit , membership@bsnl.org.uk For BSNL Cultural Club: Trupti Joshi , cultureclub@bsnl.org.uk For BSNL Elders Group: Vinod Mehta , eldersclub@bsnl.org.uk For BSNL Abhilasha: Anjana Thaker , abhilasha@bsnl.org.uk For BSNL Young Brahmins: Amar Trivedi , Aktrivedi85@hotmail.com Visit us on-line The Secretary s Message Dear Members, I have been actively serving BSNL since 2013, when I started the Children s Culture Club (CC) and during the past few years, I have had the privilege to work alongside and learn from many people (trustee, volunteers and members) who selflessly give time and their talent for the betterment of our samaj. We live in rapidly changing times. Life moves at a fast (and sometimes furious) pace; possibilities and opportunities, and directions to walk are limitless. So why give time to BSNL? For me and my family, BSNL is important and relevant as it gives us the opportunity to preserve our Hindu culture and identity (with various religious events celebrating MahaShivratri, Holi, Hanuman Chalisa, Navratri, etc.), hold on to our heritage and history (CC), belong to a community, make friends and have fun (ice skating, day trips, Diwali party, etc.). If you haven t been attending, I urge you to re-join. If we are not organising the kind of activities that interest you, I encourage you to step forward and let us know what you want (at the very least) or better still become an event convenor yourself! I am looking forward to the year ahead and hope to see you at our events. Trupti Joshi, Secretary, BSNL. What s happening at BSNL? Every week at our hall Mondays Beginners IT Classes: 10:30am 11:30pm Bollirobics: 8:00pm - 9pm Tuesdays egroup: 12noon 4:00pm esangeet: 4:00pm-6:00pm Bramnaad Sangeet Classes: 6:00pm-8:00pm Thursdays - eyoga: 10:00am-11:30am Saturdays - CC: 3:30pm 5:30pm Sundays - Badminton (at Claremont High School) YB s Football (at Claremont High School) Monthly at our hall 3 rd Friday of each month - Open Mike Musical Night Stay in touch with all the latest BSNL news by visiting our website ( and our facebook pages (login to facebook and search for Brahmin Society North London). And in April YB Ice Skating egroup Community Lunch Abhilasha Fun & Games afternoon June Abhilasha Antakshri August Abhilasha Shravan Satsang May Mehfil Hanuman Chalisa July Abhilasha BBQ October Brahm Samaj Navratri Havan Newsletter 2 - Apr

2 YB s Ice Skating at Sobell Recent Past Events As you will know we had an ice skating afternoon on Sat 7 th April at Sobell Leisure Centre, Islington. Another year on and a great turn out once again with some first timers on the ice. Great fun filled day which everyone enjoyed. We even got the coach to teach us some moves, tips and tricks! A big thank you to all who came down to skate, and also those supporting from the side lines. Same time- same place next year... we will keep you posted. Photos will be on the usual social media sites. Keep a look out for: Next planned event... bowling in July. Forthcoming Events egroup Community Lunch Tue 10 th Apr, 12-4pm at BSNL Brent residents were invited by Brent Council to apply for grants of up to 1000 to host a special lunch for their community as part of the Commonwealth Big Lunch scheme, delivered in partnership with the Eden Project. This April the UK will host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and millions of people in 52 countries will get together to share food and celebrate their connections. We are delighted to say that our BSNL Elders Group successfully obtained 500 grant under this scheme for sharing a meal together on Tuesday 10th at our egroup session with our VIP guests Worshipful Mayor of Brent Cllr Bhagwanjibhai Chauhan and Cllr Margaret McLannan who is our local Councillor for Northwick Park Ward. As many of our Trustees as can make it will also be participating in this. BSNL ABHILASHA PRESENTS A LADIES GATHERING WHEN? SATURDAY 28/4/2018, PM WHERE? BSNL HOUSE HOW MUCH? 3 ENTRANCE PLEASE BOOK IN ADVANCE LADIES, COME AND JOIN US FOR AN AFTERNOON OF FUN AND LAUGHTER! CONTACT: Jyoti Joshi Anjana Thaker Newsletter 2 - Apr

3 B BSNL proudly presents an evening of Musical Mehfil, featuring evergreen melodies from Bollywood performed by internationally acclaimed Mumbai playback singers - Mridula Desai & Anand Palwankar Sat 12 th May 2018, 6:30pm 11pm at BSNL House Programme: Tickets: Contact: 6:30 8pm: Vegetarian Dinner 20 members Harendra K Raval 8 11 pm: Mehfil 25 non members ( ) Payment: Cheque: payable to BSNL Internet banking: sort code account no quote your name & reference Mehfil 12/05/2018 Mukeshbhai Raval ( ) Please book & Tickets will NOT Seats will be pay early! be available on the allocated on the door! full payment. Management reserves the right of admission and change of programme without prior notice. BSNL is registered charity, BSNL 51 Hanuman Chalisa Saturday 19 th May 2018, 1pm 5:30pm with Mahaprashad thereafter, at BSNL House FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: NILIMABEN RAVAL ANJANABEN THAKER PLEASE CONTACT US IF YOU WISH TO SPONSOR THIS EVENT OR MAKE A DONATION TOWARDS THE COST. Newsletter 2 - Apr

4 Regular BSNL Fixtures BSNL ABHILASHA PRESENTS BOLLYROBICS BY BINAL WHEN? New 10 week term starting on 23/4/2018 Regular classes: EVERY MONDAY, 8-9PM WHERE? BSNL House HOW MUCH? 50 for 10 sessions, payable in advance PAYABLE IN ADVANCE COME AND JOIN US! LOTS OF FUN AND LAUGHTER HEALTH AND WELLBEING PLEASE BOOK SOON AS CLASS IS ALREADY GETTING FULL. CONTACT: Anjana Thaker, BSNL IT Classes IT classes, delivered by Chandrashekarbhai, have been running for our elders on Mondays from 10:30 11:30am. If you are interested in joining these classes, and learning in a friendly environment, please contact Vandanaben Joshi on BSNL Bramnaad Sangeet The Brahmnaad Vocal Sangeet classes have been running for a year now and we are happy to announce that our 16 members have enjoyed learning the basics of various Raags, (including Bhupali, Yaman, Durga, Bilawal, Sarang, Khamaj, Kafi and Desh) and Sargams and the knowledge of some bollywood songs and bhajans that are based on these raags. In fact, our current students have done so well and will be moving on to level two! Well done to you all! Our club meets every Tuesdays, from 6-8 pm at BSNL House. The fee is 30 per term. If you are interested in enhancing your singing skills, please feel free to contact myself, Vandanaben Joshi ( ) or Padmaben Bhatt, our Sangeet Teacher ( ) for a chat and to decide which class will be best for you (the first lesson will be free so you can see what we do). We are also very keen to welcome any musicians (sitaarist, harmonium player, tabalchi or dholak player all welcome) so again, please be in touch if you are interested! Look forward to hearing from you! JSK, Vandanaben. BSNL YB s Football The YB boys meet every Sunday, 7pm-8.30pm, at Claremont high school, Claremont Ave, HA3 0UH to play 7 -a-side football on a 3G all-weather pitch ( 5 per session). If you are aged 16+ and want to join (all abilities welcome), please contact Amar Trivedi ( ), Hitesh Purohit ( ) or Minesh Bhatt ( ). Newsletter 2 - Apr

5 BSNL Monthly Open-Mike Musical Mash-up Night A call out to all you BSNL singers out there - come and join us at BSNL House on the 3 rd Friday of every month (except for our first meet which is planned for Fri 27th Apr), from 7:30 11pm, for an evening of singing and fun, and bring along your fans to cheer you on! We will provide the mike, the music and even some snacks and hot/cold drinks (of the non-alcoholic variety!). And all for just 5 (if you are going to be singing), or 3 (if you are going to simply sit back and enjoy!) Interested? Call Anand P on or Prathik V on Go on give it a go! BSNL Badminton BSNL will be starting a badminton club for its members - all members of a playable age and all levels are welcome! When? Sundays, 7.00pm to 8.00pm (starting on 15/4/18) Where? Claremont High School, Kenton. How much, per player/per week? Adults (18+) - 4, Children (10 to 18) 2, Under 10 s free. Interested? Contact Hitesh Purohit ( ). This will be another initiative by our BOT to promote healthy living. The BSNL Subgroups The BSNL Children s Culture Club Dear Members, Culture Club (CC) is a fun club that was started by BSNL for children aged between 6 and 18. The club meet every Saturday (10 sessions per school term), between 3:30 and 5:30pm, at BSNL house. Our new term will start on Saturday 5 th May During the sessions, children learn about: Hindu and Gujarati culture, history and religion, during topic time The Gujarati language Gujarati/Hindu music and songs (bhajans, garbas, aartis, lok-geet, etc) in a relaxed, friendly environment. The fee for this is just 60 per term (10 weeks). If you are interested in your children joining, or wish to become involved yourself, please contact me (Bhavini) on ખ Jai Shree Krishna, Bhavini Bhatt. Newsletter 2 - Apr

6 Young Brahmins (YBs) Namaste everyone, Check us out on facebook: Young Brahmins UK and Youngbrahminsevents for what s happening and our plans for the future. We would love to hear any ideas, suggestions and feedback you have, what you liked, what we could do better in the future... let us know what we can do for you. To join our young and dynamic organising team please give me call (number below), or Selina Rawal on , skrawal@live.co.uk. Har Har Mahadev. Amar K Trivedi-YB president, aktrivedi85@hotmail.com Jay Shree Krishna! BSNL ABHILASHA We have already started Bollirobics on 5/2/2018; this has become very popular with our health conscious ladies. Our current term ends on 16/04/2018 and we are looking to start a new term on Monday 23/04/2018 (see above for details). Please watch out for future events via newsletters, our Whatsapp group chat, and Social Media. Best wishes, Anjana Thaker Abhilasha Chair and Bsnl Trustee ( , abhilasha@bsnl.org.uk) Dear All, BSNL Club30/60? We had in our previous newsletter, asked you for ideas on an alternative name for this group...and here it is CLUB AGELESS! As the name suggests, this will be an all-inclusive place where the only entry requirement is that you want to have a good time with friends & family (and you are a member obviously!)!!! To start things off, we are organising a Karaoke event at the end of June (so keep the last couple of days of June FREE as soon as everything is finalised, we will let you know exact details), then we are thinking of regular pub quiz evenings, a summer picnic, afternoon tea (somewhere really nice!), dinner (maybe at the Shard), quad-biking, zip-wiring, the Crystal Maze experience, bowling, a 70/80 themed dinner & dance,. so many ideas and so much to come!!! Let s all come together, have loads of fun, meet new and interesting people, and make memories - that's what this group is all about! Remember, together we are stronger, so please support us, and if you have any new ideas/suggestions or want to help with event organisation/management, just get in touch - Pramath Pandya on or Bilesh Joshi on That s it for now, but watch this space (and the website/whatsapp group/facebook) for more Newsletter 2 - Apr

7 BSNL Elders Group (egroup), BSNL egroup Our BSNL Elders Group continues to enjoy a fun filled day every Tuesday with bhajans, bhojan and manoranjan. A great day out for our elders. We have enjoyed full membership, capped at 125 which is the capacity limit of our hall, for the last 3 years with near house full attendance each week and have had to operate a Waiting List. However, if there are any long term BSNL members over the age of 65 who wish to join our egroup they should contact me as we will give them priority over newer BSNL members. Our egroup membership is free of charge for BSNL members over the age of 65. Our mission is to give our elders a good day out full of entertainment, education, health awareness and social welfare and a delicious full course vegetarian lunch. Our activities include singing, celebrating Hindu festivals, and other themed days such as Valentines, Father s Day, etc., organising holidays abroad as well as local picnics and trips to temples. We also organise special events for our members to participate in a variety of performances, and when possible we invite outside artists and speakers also. For our elders health we have our eyoga class every Thursday morning, and for our members wishing to improve their singing we have esangeet class. And there are WhatsApp groups for our members to keep connected every day. Never a dull moment at egroup!! I am grateful to our egroup Sub-Committee for their dedication and leadership over the years that has enabled our egroup to be the success it is: Mr Shashikantbhai Mehta (Manoranjan), Dr Sharadbhai Mehta (Catering), Dr Mukundbhai Mehta (Special Events), Mrs Nimuben Rawal (eyoga), Mrs Hema Mehta (Membership), Mr jagdishbhai Mehta (in Charge of Hall Set-up) Mrs Prafulaben Purohit (Health & Safety) Mrs Bhartiben Vyas (Feel Good Champion). And the voluntary services of our members just too many to mention here. Mr Vinod Mehta Chairman BSNL egroup Newsletter 2 - Apr

8 Advertisement in BSNL Communication Systems If any member or BSNL friends would like to advertise in any of the BSNL communication media, the rates are as follows: BSNL Website Ad in our Website 501 per year BSNL Newsletter A4 page leaflet (produced by the advertiser) need 625 copies- 150 ½ page leaflet (produced by the advertiser) (need 625 copies) 75 ¼ page leaflet (produced by the advertiser) (need 625 copies) 50 Two-line ad in the contents of Newsletter - 25 BSNL Facebook/Twitter: Advertisement produced by advertiser and approved by Communication Team: 250 for one year BSNL Notice Board at the Hall: 50 for three months Hall Bookings We continue to see regular and ad-hoc bookings of both our upstairs and downstairs hall. If anyone is interested in hiring either or both halls please contact our Hall Bookings Team, led my Ashwinbhai Thaker on BSNL Samaj Samachar Congratulations to Neel Trivedi (son of Bharvi and Nita Trivedi) and Payal Khothari, who were married on Sat 07 April 2018, BSNL wish you a very happy married life together! Thanks from BSNL to our behind the scenes helpers Harubhai Raval for his continued all round support! Hiteshbhai Purohit for looking after our Membership Database. Anandbhai Pancholi for his work on the Media Team. Yagneshbhai Shukla for his work on our website. Ashwinbhai Thaker for looking after our building. Sad News BSNL offer sincere condolences to Mrs Hasmita Trivedi on the sad passing of her dear husband, Shree Pankajbhai Trivedi, of Peterborough. Mrs Kalpanaben Raval on the sad passing of her dear mother Shree Shardaben M Jani, of Mumbai. Newsletter 2 - Apr