THE REVIEW gets to some pretty remote places but here's an early contender for this year's most inaccessible spot.

Barry Watson was snapped with the Forest's favourite read in the village of Baryparum, 200 miles north of Chennai on the eastern side of India.

It's a part of the sub-continent rarely visited by outsiders and Barry is looking for adventurers to join him in delivering life-changing tools to people in a remote Indian village.

The Chepstow entrepreneur knows he could just put 16 sewing machines on a plane and get them delivered to the Yanadi people.

Instead 16 teams of up to three people will carry the heavy manual machines as hand luggage on a plane and then face two days travelling to the village of Baryparum in a tuc-tuc, a three-wheeled motorised rickshaw.

Barry, who runs social media company Let Us Be Social from Chepstow, said: "I first got involved in India after being asked by an amazing woman called Julie Davies to help her organisation the Elizabeth Ann charity but it soon became clear that she didn't need my help and so I looked around for other people to help.

"I was taken to meet the Yanadi, 81 people who had been living on a rubbish tip for 30 years."

He set up Help the Village and built 31 houses of wood and bamboo on "a bit of heaven on earth".

The next phase of the project involves helping the women of the village learn skills to enable them to earn a living and to build the first stone buildings including a school and a church – a particular request of the strongly Christian community.

The sewing machines will be delivered by the teams in December but before then there will be a competition involving the machines being photographed in front of famous landmarks.

Barry said: "This is for people who like a challenge and want to help people. We are looking for people who want to have fun – Victor Meldrews need not apply.

"The village is in the south-east of India and the area is totally non-tourist."

The aim is for each team member to raise £600 for the work of Help the Village.

Among those taking part in the adventure will be Barry's wife Shirley who is originally from Broadwell and their son Zak.

The machines will take names inspired by pop and rock groups and include Simply Thread and Right Said Thread.

Barry's own machine is called Buddy Holy, a reference to Holy Rao, a friend in India.

Each machine has a wooden plate carved by furniture maker David Eisenhofer of Sedbury.

•More information is available by calling 01291 622091 or visiting http://www.helpthevillage.co.uk">www.helpthevillage.co.uk or searching for help the village on Facebook.