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Introduction

GEOFFREY BAWA TRUST.

The objects of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust are the advancement and promotion of education and knowledge and the furtherance of interest in:

Ecological and environmental studies including interalia Botany, Zoology, Bird Sanctuary, Natural History, Nature Study, Preservation of Wild Life, Fauna and Flora, Environmental Landscaping and associated fields of study;

Architecture

Fine Arts such as Painting, Music, Drama, Sculpture, Scientific Technical or Literary work.

To grant assistance in the form of studentships, scholarships, Bursaries, Loans, Allowances, Payment for or in Reimbursement of the cost of travel (Both inland / and / or abroad) Books, Equipment, Fees and Other expenses incurred in the promotion and furtherance or the foregoing objects.

To establish maintain and manage galleries for the fine arts, museums, libraries, reading rooms, cultural centres, research libraries and facilities.

To subsidize art classes in school and educational institutions and to organize lectures, tours, picnics, public meetings, for promotion and furtherance of foregoing objects;

To carry on and maintain any undertaking by itself or in association with any other organization, government or private and whether affiliated to any foreign or international organization and encourage interest in the forgoing objects.

For the purpose of doing all other acts and things as may be necessary to the attainment of the objects.

The current Trustees are -

Ms Sunethra Bandaranaike,

Mr.Ward Beling,

Arch. Channa Daswatte

Ms Eugenie Mack.

LUNUGANGA TRUST

The Lunuganga Trust is a private trust that was set up in 1994 with the object of looking after the two properties that belonged to Mr. Geoffrey Bawa (and now ceded to the Trust) in Colombo and Bentota. Both properties are of outstanding architectural value and deemed masterpieces of architecture and landscape in a global context.

A more distant objective is the formation of a kind of national Trust. There is a realization that Sri Lanka needs such a body to begin to look after and restore buildings of architectural merit from the contemporary and colonial past, which seemed to get neglected by official organizations and sometimes private owners who cannot afford to look after them. The Lunuganga and Geoffrey Bawa Trusts could form the basis of a fund that would help with advice and funds in return for the building being open to public viewing for an agreed period. The Trust recognizes that many of the contemporary buildings that deserve preservation are by Geoffrey Bawa himself.