Fund recipients
See the projects we are currently supporting with our Community Fund.
Spring 2022
We supported 39 projects in our first funding pay-out of 2022, donating a total of £39,766 across the islands.
Jersey
The National Trust for Jersey
Volunteer Engagement. Engaging with the general public, corporates and other charities in conservation and habitat management. To purchase First aid kit, sun hat and sickles for volunteers
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1,203
Mont Nicolle School
School Garden and Pond. To develop the use of the school garden and pond to promote pupil wellbeing, outdoor learning and pupil enterprise. Also, will help to grow produce to sell in their honesty store and will be re-invested in the garden.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £350*
The Jersey Youth Trust
YES project - drop-in resources. The YES project is a service providing free confidential advice, guidance and counselling for young people under 25 years. They are in need of upgrading their furnishings / layout of the drop-in centre to ensure it is comfortable, secure and welcoming for young people to access the service.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £2,500
Jersey Brain Tumour Charity
Community Support - Funds will support rent to hold regular buddy meetings for those diagnosed or impacted by a Brain Tumour (BT) and who might be struggling to maintain their pre-BT way of life or are recovering from BT treatments including operations.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,500
Focus on Mental Illness
Family Work Intervention. Focus on Mental Illness provide evidence-based therapeutic family work to those affected by severe mental illness and their family members. Funds will help provide administration for both families, assessment for up to 12 people, and 12 sessions of family therapy for two families.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £2,200
10th Jersey (St. Brelade) Scout Group
First Aid: Youth Training. Purchase of a training version of the Group's new defibrillator for the premises, so youth members can learn how to use a defibrillator should it ever become necessary.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £375
Carry in Cloth
Cloth Nappy Scheme. To help encourage more parents to give cloth a go and help people on this scheme to choose to reuse.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £600
Jersey Hospice Care
Summer Garden Planting. This project will bring summer flowers to the garden to make it a beautiful space for people to enjoy and provide patients and their families a place to reflect, breathe and take a moment when they need it most.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000*
Room 2 Talk Ltd
Future fundraising. To purchase equipment for future fundraising/awareness raising activities by attending markets/events etc to raise awareness of who we are and what we do
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,300
St Luke's Church
Afternoon Teas for Elderly Parishioners. St Luke's has been offering afternoon tea to those over 70 who live in the parish. It has been a well-received series of events that help to bring members of the community together and beat loneliness for the elderly generation.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £350
Jersey Mencap
Book Club @ the library. A new facilitator and volunteer have created a new energy and members want to expand the learning and activities at the book club. They have developed a list of resources to help them achieve this. The money will be spent on specialist learning resources.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500*
Brook Jersey
Promotional items. Having recently moved to new premises, Brook are using the fund to help print professional leaflets, opening timecards, pens and other promotional items made up to distribute to young people and professionals.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
Acorn Enterprises
Acorn Reuse Metal Recycling Project. Acorn are setting up a metal recycling project in the new Acorn Reuse donations centre in Trinity. The grant pays for tools needed for the metal recycling project: toolboxes, cordless screwdrivers, screwdrivers, magnets, and bits
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £450
Oxygen Therapy (Jersey) Limited
16-25 Neurological Support Group. A support group for 16–25-year-olds with long term neurological conditions. The group meets twice a month, and the fund will help support with some offsite activities with the group throughout the year.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,400
Padel For All
Equipment Costs. Padel is a very new sport and Jersey is about to have one of the largest facilities in the UK. As it is a new sport, the funds will help to buy rackets and other equipment which is vital for the club to be able to run our schools' programs, so all children can play and enjoy the sport regardless of any social standing.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
Jersey Cheshire Home
Dinamap Monitor. The Dinamap Monitor is used by Hospital teams and is licenced under the medical law for delivering the right and accurate readings of the Human vital signs. The monitor is also capable of alerting the clinician/nurses to changes in the patient's condition or when it is unable to effectively monitor the patient's condition.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,476
Family First
Family Area. Family First support families whose children are receiving cancer treatment, teenagers with mental health illnesses as well as babies that are born prematurely. We would like to make our office more inviting and a bright and comfortable place for families to visit us.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,172
The Boatman Centre
The Boatman Centre - Education and Wellness. The Boatman Centre aim is for children, families and adults to be supported as quickly as possible, with no long waiting lists, no referral needed and no daunting paperwork. We focus on all aspects of physical, emotional, social, academic, and mental well-being.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,000*
Touch Trust Therapy at Mont a L'Abbé School
Touch Trust Therapy Sessions. These provide multisensory touch-based music and movement sessions for children with profound disabilities and complex needs. Funds will help enhance this space with specialist sensory lighting to further provide for the needs of the children and to create a beautiful and inviting space.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,698
States of Jersey Prison Service
Coffee Briquettes. To help recycle spent coffee grounds from businesses across the island into an alternative eco-friendly fuel source, from the big franchise coffee chains to independently owned coffee shops, cafes, and restaurants.
Category: Supporting local & Fairtrade
Amount donated: £750*
Jersey Heritage
Website Accessibility Project. Jersey Heritage wish to make some immediate improvements to our website to improve the accessibility issues. They aim to invest in the UserWay app which will immediately help users with impairments.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £490
Guernsey
Bright Beginnings children's centre
Funding for support services. A number of services and classes are offered to parents and carers and no charge is made to participants for these. While some participants donate, this is voluntary, and the charity are will use the contribution towards the annual catering costs.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £500
Guernsey Disability Alliance LBG
Accessibility -the benefits of improved accessibility in the community. For specialist training for GDA members to be able to talk to the media or make presentations or videos and sharing great accessibility stories from the community to encourage the island to improve accessibility and equality of access to everyday activities.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,500*
Guernsey Friends of Maggie's
Lightening the Load. The Lightning the Load project benefits people in a variety of ways, including providing a safe space for people to talk to a Maggie's psychologist or a chance to practice relaxation and mindfulness. Support groups take place both in the Centre and online. The funding will contribute towards relaxation courses and 1-to-1 sessions.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,260
Headway Guernsey
Weekly cognitive and social session. A weekly session for members who are at greatest risk of isolation, due to their age and their brain injury. Costs applied for cover 1 session a week for a year.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £2,140
St John Guernsey LBG
Community First Responder Scheme. The CFR's can attend an incident if it is in their vicinity and often are the first on the scene, before the ambulance arrives. The money will be spent to train and equip and the ongoing support for one responder.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000*
Guernsey Voluntary Service
Day Centre Music Therapy. Music therapy reduces anxiety and physical effects of stress reduces depression and other symptoms in the elderly. Funding will go towards the cost of the weekly sessions throughout the year.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1,000*
Men's Shed Guernsey
Public Access Defibrillator. The Men's Shed Guernsey membership consists predominantly of men of retirement age and may be vulnerable to heart conditions. Funds will have an on-site a public access defibrillator (PAD) installed so that we may meet any on-site cardiac emergency.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000*
Floral Forest
Fairy doors. Forest Primary School and Le Rondin children are to decorate wooden fairy doors and the best 20 used in a new walking trail from the National Trust Les Caches Farm in July this year. Decorating the doors will help with the mental wellbeing of the children and be a fun activity. 130 Wooden fairy doors
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £52
St Mary & St Michael Catholic Primary School PTFA
Sensory Garden. To create a sensory garden within the grounds of our school. A sensory garden is all about stimulating and engaging the five basic senses of sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. Funds will be used to purchase outdoor musical instruments for our sensory garden.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500
Liberate LBG
Liberate Art Club. An inclusive creative space to improve and maintain mental health, reduce isolation and loneliness and develop artistic skills. The money will be spent on art products to make art more accessible to our members (e.g. easels) and replenishing our stock.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,500
Friends of Sark School (FoSS)
Sark School Playground Project. We wish to provide commercial play equipment and safety surfacing to create a modern space, focused on fostering creativity and development of the students’ physical skills, and to enrich both the school day, and our islands younger generations futures.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £500*
Russels Day Centre
Bridging the gap art competition. Socially isolated older adults and pupils of St Martins Primary school will work together to make portraits of Queen Elizabeth prior to her Platinum Jubilee, the plan is to award prizes for category winners and to display all entries Funds will go towards art materials and prizes
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £100
Health Connections LBG
Talking Café. The Talking Cafe project enables local cafes to host one of our Community Connector volunteers who can encourage isolated, frail and elderly people in the community to meet new people, make new friends and get connected to support on our online directory when they visit the cafe. The funds will enable the charity to buy tablets and portable printers for the Community Connectors
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1000*
The Monnaie Fellowship Trust LBG
The Jeanne Groves Wheelchair Walkway. Our proposal is to construct a one metre wide, wheelchair-friendly walkway along the north and west sides of our field which is adjacent to the Monnaie Chapel.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1000*
Guernsey Cheshire Home
Community Socialisation. To enable our residents to continue to socialise with the wider community by providing and maintaining the transport required for them to achieve, and benefit from, such socialisation. Funding would go to insurance and servicing of the vehicle.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,500*
Wigwam Support Group
Holiday Music Project. To run sessions for children in the holidays, each custom made for children's disability.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,600
Guernsey Senior Citizens Association
Social Activity. Provide monthly meetings for 42 elderly members and two lunches at local hotels. Other activities are encouraged such as board games and bingo. Funds will go towards a free summer lunch to members and a Christmas tea party.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £800
Grow LTD
Relining of our Water Tanks. Grow Ltd has relocated temporarily (18 months), whilst our redevelopment happens but our new/temp site does not have a reliable water source and we are relying fully on the collection of rainwater. We will use any funds granted to us toward the upkeep and maintenance or our water tanks.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,000*
Autumn 2021
We supported 29 projects in October 2021, donating a total of £25,016 across the islands.
Jersey
First Tower School
To buy equipment and furnishings for the nurture provision. Supporting the increasing number of pupils identified with social, emotional and mental health needs.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £800*
Jersey Mencap
Social clubs for adults living with family carers. The funds will support a programme of health, wellbeing and respite opportunities including fitness, yoga, zumba, walks, day trips and indoor activities.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500*
Gorey Youth Project
Supporting young people to refurbish and redesign a room in their youth club. The space will provide a calm environment and safe space in which to improve their mental health and wellbeing.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £550
Sanctuary Trust
To help with the renovation costs of the property to enable the safe accommodation of a further six bedrooms and a therapy room for homeless men.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,000*
BeachAbility
Helping to make the island’s beaches accessible to all. Funds will support purchase of new accessibility equipment/storage at St Brelade’s Bay.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £2,000*
Project Linus UK, Jersey
Setting up a club and space for monthly knit'n'natter meetings for islanders. Funds will be used for room hire costs.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £500
Caring Cooks
To aid the setup of a school kitchen with equipment to run a ‘Let’s Get Cooking Programme’ for school children to learn the importance of nutrition, diet and good food.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £1,000*
Aureole Music
Providing a coordinated programme of music in care homes and day care centres, offering professional standard music performances and a qualified music therapist. Funds will help pay for song books.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £506*
Jersey Child Care Trust
Special Needs Inclusion Programme - to enable and support the inclusion of children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities to access mainstream private nurseries in Jersey.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £960
The Resolution Centre
Creating a peer mediation scheme in a primary school. The funds will be used to supplement the design, development, delivery and initial set up costs of creating the scheme and rolling it out.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,500*
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (Jersey Zoo)
To create a trail of sensory and reflective experiences, designed to inspire meaningful connections to nature. Helping to re-connect people with the natural world, and inspire visitors to take responsibility for our planet.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £700*
Friends of Mont a L'Abbe School
Enhancing the outdoor area by replacing learning toys/equipment to help children engage with each other and learn new skills.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500*
Tabor Park Association
To purchase a defibrillator at the site, for residents and for the local community to use. Funds will also provide training.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1,500
NSPCC Jersey
Support the NSPCC’s Pregnancy in Mind scheme, a preventative group work programme for parents-to-be who are experiencing or at risk of mild to moderate perinatal anxiety and depression.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000*
Many Happy Returns Jersey
Many Happy Returns Jersey supplies reusable party kits to offer an accessible and easy way to avoid waste from disposables. Funds will help provide safe, secure storage for party items.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £400*
Jersey Recovery College
To develop a short course for local people who have recently received a Cancer diagnosis, to support them proactively with their mental health.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1000
Guernsey
Health Connections LBG
Voluntary Community Transport Service - funds will go towards the annual licence fee for an IT system that enables the charity to more easily co-ordinate the service.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,000*
Fairtrade Guernsey Steering Group
Enhancing the group’s communications capacity and enabling them to purchase items such as banners in the run-up to Fairtrade Fortnight 2022.
Category: Supporting local & Fairtrade
Amount donated: £900*
Autism Guernsey
Funds will help with the delivery of their Earlybird Plus programme. Working in partnership with parents of autistic children aged 4-9 years to support their children’s development.
Category: Health and wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
Guernsey Mobility Let's Go
Guernsey Mobility Lets Go group delivers sporting activity to people with various disabilities or mobility issues. The donation will help with the hire of community facilities.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,000*
Forest Primary School
Funds will enable the diverse community of families and friends whose children attend both the Forest and Le Rondin primary schools to have full access to a safe natural outdoor area.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £1,000
La Mare de Carteret Primary School
Funds will support a project to create a Nature Education area for a wide range of ages and diversity of educational needs and difficulties.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £800*
The Guernsey Sylvans Sports Club LBG
To improve outdoor facilities for the community, and help users make greener transport choices by installing a bike park at the sports club.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000*
ACTIVE
To use towards the hire of Beau Sejour sports hall to host local craft fair to help raise money for ACTIVE and showcase local crafts.
Category: Supporting local & Fairtrade
Amount donated: £800*
Roustel Ward, Princess Elizabeth Hospital
Roustel ward is one of the continuing care wards at the hospital. Funds will help staff purchase crockery to be used in a new cafe within the ward community, supporting residents and their visitors.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £150
RSPB Guernsey Group
To buy five pairs of good quality, small, lightweight binoculars for children to use on outings, helping school children to learn about local birds and wildlife.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £500
Les Grand Courtil Tenants Association
To provide recreational activities to residents of the assisted living centres at Les Grand Courtil and Courtil Jacques. The funds will help to build ‘Petanque’ bowling area with wheelchair friendly access.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
Les Voies School
The funds will be used update the outdoor quad area into a space that children can bring learning outdoors, as well as facilitate learning about planting, growing and taking responsibility for the area.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £700
Community Savings Guernsey LBG
To support the set-up of monthly drop-in coffee mornings for islanders needing financial advice and support.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £849
Spring 2021
We 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
