Fund recipients
See the projects we are currently supporting with our Community Fund.
Spring 2021
We have supported 28 projects in our first funding pay-out of 2021, donating a total of £24,969 across the islands.
Guernsey
Rosaire Community Association
Rosiare Community Chorus – a community choir for people over 55. Funds will be spent on a choir facilitator for 40 weeks.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1,800*
Guernsey Bereavement Service
Grief Café. A safe environment for anyone suffering to have support, build networks and provide the key stepping-stones in the grief process.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,470
Les Bourgs Hospice
Distributing seed packs at 30th Anniversary events to encourage people to start their own pollinator patches. Working with the Pollinator Project.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1,000*
Relate Guernsey
To provide new furniture for clients, to provide a safe and welcoming environment. Funds will be spent on updating old, broken and poor quality items.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
Castel Primary School PTA
Updating the school library to provide a more comfortable and colourful environment for the children to see a wider selection of books and read them in a more stimulating environment.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,000*
Styx Centre
To upgrade the main Styx Community Centre kitchen used by 160-180 regular users and community groups on a weekly basis.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £850
Guernsey Rovers
Provision of information boards for the Port Soif Nature Trail, to provide an education tool to further explain the flora/fauna and wildlife to be seen.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £800
Diabetes Guernsey
Education Day on June 19th 2021. This event is to provide education and peer support to people living with Diabetes in the Bailiwick. Funds to go towards venue hire and catering.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £700
GROW Limited
Purchase of gardening equipment for the charity's training initiatives, teaching people with learning difficulties and disabilities skills in gardening and soft landscaping.
Category: Social inclusion
Amount donated: £695*
The Accidental Zoo LBG
Thrive Outside 2021 is providing 1,033 primary school children with a fortnight of outdoor learning opportunities to inspire their ongoing education. Funds will be spent on equipment hire.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £507*
Jersey
Jersey Trees for Life
Purchase a fully lockable secure metal waterproof and fireproof storage unit, allowing the old, broken shed to be reused by the grounds team for shelter and wellbeing during increment weather.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1,900
SCOOP The Sustainable Co-operative
SOCIAL.FEED is a new programme to provide high quality produce to young islanders and to welcome them to conversation about food, climate, health and our island's history and culture.
Category: Supporting local
Amount donated: £1,790*
National Trust for Jersey
Purchase of equipment for the Plemont Seabird Project, which aims to set up an inter-Island long-term monitoring scheme for seabirds and mammals with the use of automated acoustic recorders.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1,605
Springfield Primary School
To regenerate and make safe a small patch of ground in the playground. This supports 229 pupils and local families who will benefit from the use of the new equipment.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,500*
Healing Waves
To purchase new inflatable SUP boards for use by the athletes. This will enable more people to be supported by the charity’s activities.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,000*
Jersey Action Against Rape
To produce of two podcasts to teach young people about consent and porn safety. It is hoped that the medium will help families start conversations around healthy sexual relations and pornography.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £960*
Jersey Cheshire Home
To purchase a new Isla Stand Aid from a local supplier, to enhance the lives of residents who can stand, but not necessarily walk.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £950
Brighter Futures
Drawing and talking programme, providing a therapeutic environment for children to explore emotional trauma experienced during the Covid-19 situation. Funding for the training costs.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £900*
Jersey Employment Trust
To purchase equipment to support an increased demand for therapeutic services after the pandemic. The funds will be spent on new equipment for creative projects.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £720
Le Rocquier School PTA
To support the set-up of a new holistic emotional literacy programme and focused intervention for SEMH students. It is hoped this facility will help 30+ students per year.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £650
Family Nursing & Home Care
To purchase Wendyletts sheets to reduce the risk of injury to nurses, carers and family members who may have to help patients change position, and to help make patients more comfortable.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £600*
Beresford Street Kitchen
To purchase a new Adobe design suite to improve opportunities for 46 crew with learning disabilities and autism, in the print works and in turn provide a better service to the community.
Category: Social inclusion and accessibility
Amount donated: £599*
Highlands College
Creating an outdoor wellbeing area to offer outdoor counselling / group support work to students. Funds will be used for plants, shrubs and art resources to decorate the area.
Category: Social inclusion and accessibility
Amount donated: £500
The Inclusion Project
To fund a minibus for young people with additional needs and disabilities attending the Inclusion Project, so that parents don't have to worry about transport.
Category: Social inclusion and accessibility
Amount donated: £400
Re-engage
To fund social outings and gifts for 8-10 elderly guests living alone, with health issues which restrict them getting out on their own.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £300
Jersey health service ‘enhanced care boxes’
Enhanced care boxes will help carers engage with patients who have dementia or are in hospital with the need of 1:1 care. This funding will go towards dementia friendly robotic cats.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £300
St Luke’s Church Playgroup
To purchase new items such as Tuff Trays, Baby Playmats/Play Gyms, Musical Instrument Sets, Large Books, Play Kitchen equipment, arts and crafts items and smaller puzzles and educational toys.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £250*
JSPCA
To purchase wildlife nets and soft carriers to assist with the rehabilitation of local wildlife such as garden birds, birds of prey and red squirrels.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £223*
*partial donation
