Span Foundation is proud to have been a part of the 6th edition of the Sahyadri Classic, supporting both Men’s and Women’s Cycling Competitions in the breathtaking Sahyadri Ghats! 🌿🏔️ As a commitment to promoting sports and empowerment, we proudly sponsored the prizes for the top three winners in the Women’s category. Zubair Sofi represented...
Indian snowboarder Zubair Ahmad Lone has recently returned from a series of Alpine Snowboarding competitions in Europe, where he achieved remarkable success by securing a total of nine medals—seven silver and two bronze. Notably, in January 2025, Zubair made history by clinching India’s first-ever silver medal in the FIS Alpine Snowboard Race held in Serbia....
We are immensely proud of the recent consecutive silver medals won by Zubair Ahmad Lone, a snowboarder from Kashmir whose training has been supported by the Span Foundation. In a groundbreaking achievement for Indian snowboarding, Zubair Ahmad Lone from Qazipora Tangmarg, Baramulla, made history by securing India’s first-ever silver medal in the FIS Alpine Snowboard...
Span Foundation, over the past few months has been documenting arts and crafts of Kashmir and Punjab. The crafts include the everyday skills which in several cases are now not considered as an art or craft. We hope to publish a coffee table book after completing the photographic documentation.
Shri Baldev Singh Dhiman (19 April1935 – 29 April 2021) was an eminent structural engineer based in Delhi. A graduate of IIT Kharagpur, he completed his masters degree in structural engineering at MIT, USA followed by a degree in business management. On returning to India, his first project was the design of the Banihal Tunnel...
Span Foundation has been supporting Zubair Ahmad Lone, the snowboarding national champion from Tangmarg, Kashmir, to realise his dream of representing India in the Winter Olympics of 2026. In 2014 he won bronze and silver in the national championships held in Gulmarg. He has been the national champion twice in Manali 2016 in Slalom and...
Meeras Mahal at Sopore, North Kashmir, was inaugurated in November 2023. This is a museum dedicated to the collections of Atiqa Bano. Atiqa Bano (Behan Ji) (1940 – 4 October 2017) was an Indian educationist and activist for the artistic and cultural heritage of Kashmir. She established and curated the Meeras Mahal, a private museum...
Span Foundation co-funded Adil’s Leh to Manali stretch and paid for his new cycle. We are proud to be associated with a true champion. Oct 13, 2022I’m grateful to your organization, the Span Foundation, for co-funding my attempt as a professional cyclist to break the Guinness World record from Leh to Manali. Your contribution came...
These are some of the organisations we have been funding regularly:
SPAN FOUNDATION was founded by my father Mr. B.S. Dhiman and his long term friend and associate, whom we fondly called uncle, Mr. Jawahar Kaul. The foundation was essentially funded by Span Consultants Pvt. Ltd., of which my father was the managing director. Since its inception, the Foundation supported education and medical aid by donating...
