Fund recipients
See the projects we're currently supporting with our Community Fund.
Spring 2023
We supported 26 projects in our first funding pay-out of 2023, donating a total of £26,149.00 across the islands.
Jersey
James' Ark
This project is to support families going through separation and divorce to make the right decisions for their children. The funding will allow James' Ark to run a 5-week course while parents are going through separation, offering parents different strategies for setting up a new life as a single parent. The course is recognised and recommended by the family courts.
Category: Equality & Diversity
Amount donated: £1,000
Family Nursing and Home Care
Family Nursing & Home Care (FNHC) run the Child Measurement Programme (CMP) in Jersey. As part of the CMP, all reception age children have their hearing checked which is so important because hearing impacts a child’s speech and language development, social skills and education. The CMP rely heavily on FNHC’s two existing audiometers to perform hearing tests, and they're now in need of replacement.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,950
Jersey Recovery College
This application is for kitchen supplies for Jersey Recovery College's new office. This is a hugely beneficial move for the organisation as they've been in temporary offices for the last year. This new office will also have a training room, meaning they can deliver courses there. The second part of the application is sponsorship for an 80's night they're running in September, to raise valuable funds for the charity. All money raised will go towards keeping their mental health community courses free.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £926
Jersey Association of Home Educators
Whilst some families make the choice to home educate, others home educate due to the additional learning needs of their children and have no other alternative. This funding will go towards holding an annual sports and community day, in collaboration with Sports Bug, for children who are home educated. The grant will be used for the hire of the sports field, the time and costs for the Sportsbug company as well as healthy snacks, refreshments for the children.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £500
Friends of the Jersey Neonatal Unit
It's a Knockout and Family Fun Day is a charity event taking place on 9th and 10th September 2023. It involves over 700 contestants taking part in the 'Knockout games' and the Family Fun Day is open to the general public so that they can view the contestants taking part in the games, while enjoying various family activities. The money will be used towards the costs of hiring bouncy castles and other fun activities for families to enjoy together. If these costs are covered, 100% of all money raised at the family event can go directly to the charity.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £2,000
Oxygen Therapy Jersey
Oxygen Therapy Jersey need marketing equipment and supplies that they can use at multiple events throughout the year to help raise funds and awareness and increase the work they can do. This includes indoor and outdoor banners, tablecloths (with and without logos), logo pens pencils and bunting that will be used at various events including The Boat Show, Gorey Fete and Pride.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,200
Jersey Association of Child Carers
This funding is for a personalised gazebo the association can use for outdoor family and child events. They will use it to get a a branded Gazebo displaying their Associations name and details.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,000
Le Squez Youth Project
Young people love doing arts and crafts, so the youth club want to get some new canvases and supplies for art work and projects that will highlight environmental issues.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £250
St Matthews Church Children's Ministry
The church is starting a forest school which will be available to children and young people in the church catchment (Millbrook and wider areas). The funding will be used to purchase equipment and resources needed to run the school.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £500*
The National Trust for Jersey (charity)
The #LoveNature festival is a weeklong event staged in and around National Trust sites in St Ouen's Bay aimed at all ages. The event includes activities which present the magnificence of the natural environment, aiming to inspire awe and wonder. Funding is required for the event programme (including design and print for e-brochure and hard copy).
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,000*
23rd Jersey (St Lawrence) Scout Group
This funding will support the cost of participating in scouting activities for low-income families, so that 23rd Jersey Scout Group can continue to be as inclusive as possible by actively engaging and supporting all children and young people in their personal development, empowering them to make a positive contribution to society. The money will be used to support families with the costs in participating in scouting activities.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500
AllMatters Neurodiverse Jersey
The Neurodiverse Explorers Book Club pilot project is an innovative way of introducing primary aged children to the concept of Neurodiversity and the importance of inclusion. By reading these beautifully illustrated new books about our differences it introduces and normalises primary aged children to the idea of Neurodiversity and explains how this is relevant to school and daily life.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500
The Salvation Army Jersey
These funds will go towards purchasing seed, compost and additional tools, and painting and repairing the honesty box at the Salvation Army's garden in Grouville. The therapeutic gardening project is based in their small field in Gorey, where they work in partnership with the Government of Jersey Learning Disability Service to provide therapeutic horticulture to adults with additional learning needs. Veg from the field is used to make the daily free soup in their café.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £800*
Jersey Employment Trust
Three full-time Employment Co-ordinators work with young people in schools, helping them transition to employment. The biggest referral now relates to mental health. JET are now raising their profile and want to refresh their image with young people. The money will fund a package of resources to engage young people at careers fairs, made by Acorn Woodshack from reused timber. It will include a giant Jenga game and noughts and crosses which will be used to ask questions about the service.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £250
Aureole Music
Aureole Music lead a very popular community singing service in Jersey's care homes called Monday Melodies. They wish to publish 40 copies of a new and expanded songbook, in three sections as well as 30 copies of large print versions that the residents of the care homes can use.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1,325
Guernsey
The Ladies’ College - Melrose
The funds will help to develop a space in the preparatory playground that will be a calm, quiet, relaxing space for girls who need it. This will include a willow dome for shade, waterproof cushions, sensory garden plants and a bench to encourage girls to go to if they need a quiet area.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £500
The Mill Street Community Café
The Mill Street Community Café will offer cookery workshops to people who lack the necessary skills to prepare nutritious meals for themselves and their families. Hoping to inspire the next generation and promote well-being for everybody, the funds will purchase ingredients and extra cooking utensils for use with groups of people, plus protective clothing, cleaning materials and containers for participants to transport their meals.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £2,000
Guernsey Friends of Maggie's
Nobody living with cancer should feel alone, helpless and overwhelmed by what they are going through. Guernsey Friends of Maggie's ("GFoM") relies in part on voluntary donations from the local community so that the Maggie's centre in Southampton can continue to offer Guernsey residents (including family members and/or carers) who need treatment off-island, cancer support specialists, psychologists and other specialist staff, for free.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,250
Choices
Choices is a contraception and Sexual Health clinic in Guernsey. They have recently moved premises and are looking to raise money for a new accessibility friendly reception desk.
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £500
Baubigny Schools PTA
The current St Sampsons High School sports kits (which are primarily used for football fixtures but also other sports as required) are approximately 10 years old and very worn. Education rules state kits can't be labelled with company names so they've not been able to secure sponsorship to cover the cost.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,200
The Guernsey Botanical Trust LBG
The Gatehouse & Learning Centre is situated at the entrance of the Victorian Walled Kitchen Garden in Saumarez Park. The money will contribute to the surface finish of the front foyer at the entrance to the Gatehouse.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,500
Le Murier School
The library at Le Murier School needs a total revamp to make it more appealing to students who already face difficulties with their learning. The media centre should serve many functions, including as a central hub for student learning, a place for teachers to collaborate and access technology, and a safe space for the students to relax in so the funding will contribute towards two iPad airs for the students to use.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £1,138*
The Clean Earth Trust
Since its inception the team have launched a number of successful initiatives to raise awareness of the growing challenges that face our natural world. They focus on community-led and data-driven projects that create meaningful and measurable impact, alongside campaigns that highlight important local issues concerning the health of our island and its inhabitants. Funds will be spent on the day to day running of the charity for items such as: beach clean items, the van to pick up and drop off beach cleaning equipment and rubbish, storage and upkeep of beach clean and clothes swap and repair café items.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1,000*
Guernsey Mobility Let's Go
Guernsey Mobility Let's Go deliver a range of sports and activities to a wide group of ages and abilities from various residential/day care homes and a local school. Once a year they bring all the school pupils together with all of their adults and build a mini Olympics day - this year it will be the "Island Games" theme. Funds will go towards hire of the hall, medals, awards and marketing.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1,760
Grow limited
As part of their new build and ongoing commitment to their crew and adults with learning disabilities, Grow Limited are improving their knowledge of all areas of accessibility. They will train their part time facilities supervisor and training & development manager in the access audit course run by the GDA.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £800
Gsy child contact centre lbg
To make the contact centre safe and enjoyable to use, they will put down artificial turf, paint the walls with bright colours and diplay art work on the walls. They also want to purchase some outside toys for the children such as sand and water play and netball hoop.
Category: Social inclusion and accessibility
Amount donated: £800
Autumn 2022
We supported 35 projects in our second funding pay-out of 2022, donating a total of £40,980.00 across the islands.
Jersey
Autism Jersey
Mindfulness Workshops for Parent / Carers
These workshops are designed for parents / carers of autistic individuals. These sessions will help with day-to-day life, help support with coping strategies for day-to-day and the reduction of anxiety they may feel. £1000 will enable them deliver 20 sessions for parent / carers - online and face-to-face. Approx. 10 adults attending each session
Category: Health & Wellbeing
Amount donated: £1,000
JAYF (Jersey Association for Youth and Friendship)
Charity Marketing Materials. Having recently launch their new website and brand JAYF, we are looking for funding to purchase charity branded marketing materials.
Category: Inspiring the next generation
Amount donated: £619*
Jersey Child Care Trust
Best Start Plus Nursery Funding Programme: The Programme funds part-time (up to 12 hours a week) nursery placements for children aged between 2-3 years old who are not meeting their age expected developmental milestones at two and whose families are living in or just above the poverty line. Funding is needed to provide three family events/pop in sessions for the families we are supporting and provide ‘busy boxes’ to engage in activities with their children at home.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1140
Sanctuary Trust
Level 1 culinary course: Highlands College apprenticeship culinary course to help one of the residents to better his education and lower his chances of reoffending if he can secure work in his field of interest
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £1600 *
Guide Dogs for the Blind Association - Jersey Branch
Recycling donated books : Since 1994 we have been holding book sales to raise funds to train guide dogs and have raised £503,000 to date. Funds to cover expenses relating to book sales
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £564
Nature Base
Pop Up Nature Play in the Park: To run ‘Pop Up’ Nature Play/ Forest School sessions in Millbrook Park woodland for families to access for free cultivating positive nature connection, holistic well-being and healthy child development. Funding will be used on our Forest School Explorer pack – Resource planning pack supporting exploration and imaginative outdoor play with social and communication skills
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £2238
Jersey Island Singers
Student support scheme: We are opening our choir to students 16-24 and want to offer musical support to help supplement their education.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £1600*
Acorn Woodshack
Save Our Blades! The Acorn Woodshack needs a metal detector to detect nails and screws buried in the demolition timber we reuse. Cheaper handheld devices are not powerful enough for the job and we are still damaging expensive saw blades. The metal detector required is a Quest X10 Pro Metal Detector
Category: Supporting inclusion
Amount donated: £219
Jersey Rugby Football Club Minis & Juniors
Training pitch hedge : Following the felling of the trees which bordered our training pitch, we’d like to plant a new hedge to provide protection from wind and improve the surrounding environment.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1200
Trinity Football and Social Club
One-off pitch patch up : The pitch at Riley Field is poor and suffered from water-logging last winter and drought this summer The JFA have reported that the pitch may become too dangerous to use. We are seeking funding to buy grass seed to improve the usability of our pitch and reduce any risk of injury so that our boys and girls can play safely throughout the winter.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £945
GROW Jersey, operating under NPO Thrive Jersey
Accessible picnic benches : GROW Jersey offers social and therapeutic horticulture while providing education and awareness on issues such as the climate emergency, biodiversity loss, and soil management. It also helps people who struggle to afford healthy food by growing fruit and vegetables. Funding is for 4 picnic tables from the La Moye prison workshop for our volunteers and community users.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £800*
Jersey Mencap
Pond Project : Students from Highlands College and Mont a l'Abbe school access sessions at the pond, spending time in nature and learning about land management. We would really like to enhance our site accessibility with the addition of an eco composting timber toilet.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1500
Focus on Mental Illness
Focus UP : Focus UP, is made up of volunteers severely affected by mental illness and family/carers. They aim to empower users and carers to be the voice involvement and improvement in all services that affect their lives.
Category: Equality & diversity
Amount donated: £2000
NSPCC Jersey
Letting the Future In : etting the Future In is a ground-breaking therapeutic service run by NPSCC Jersey that helps children and young people rebuild their lives after the impacts of sexual abuse. The therapeutic sessions use a wide variety of art materials, toys and sensory resources, to explore and support their past emotions and future hopes within their journey to recovery. We are in need of key equipment, such as canvases, painting kits, sensory toys, in order to run these sessions
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £2000
Brighter Futures, St Vincent de Paul and JAYF
To Provide Period Products to Women in the Community : Provide period products to vulnerable women, or women on very low incomes through the support services and food banks. £600 per organisation to allow them to purchase period products through the Co-op (at perhaps a discounted rate) to try and meet the ever-increasing need of their clients
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1800
Finni’s Ark Sanctuary
Animal therapy and education : Finni’s ark is an animal sanctuary that also provides animal therapy to anyone who may benefit. We would like to adapt a small van to make transporting our therapy animals to care homes schools etc.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £500
Beresford Street Kitchen
Equipment for The BSK Academy : As we head into our 2nd year, we will have double the amount of attendees and so need more equipment for the classroom. This grant will help fund equipment for the academy such as a printer, laptops and interactive white boards.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £2000
JSPCA Animals' Shelter
Pat & Chat : Pat & Chat is an adults-only monthly group session that gives the older members of our community to meet over coffee and biscuits and enjoy the company of some of the animals. The aim of this group is to combat loneliness and promote good mental health The funds would also be spent on the drinks, biscuits and cakes for 12 months. We usually have around 20-25 visitors per month.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £900
The Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust
Lightening the Load : The Lightening the Load project provides a safe space for people to talk to our psychologist or a chance to practice relaxation and mindfulness. The funding will contribute towards relaxation courses and 1-to-1 sessions, both of which are run by our Clinical Psychologist and Programme Team.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1260
Jersey Beekeepers' Association
Beefield Viewing Apiary : This part of our project is to have a stock of beekeeping suits that will be available to visiting students, children and guests on our bee field. The purchase of 10 beekeeping suits which are to be kept on the bee field to comply with hive bio security and the reduction of disease transmission. The suits will be available for visiting groups inspecting the bees up close.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £1191
Guernsey
Guernsey Welfare Service
Welfare office and foodbank : Guernsey Welfare offers support to low-income households primarily through its foodbank and voucher assistance but also via other projects. The grant will be used to purchase a new printer for our Welfare office, primarily to print our vouchers but also for other general office needs .
Category: Supporting local
Amount donated: £350
Man Club (Channel Islands)
Funding for rental of meeting space : Man Club provides mental health support services for men. It does this primarily through the formation and support of men’s ‘talking’ groups. Man Club’s support services compliment counselling, coaching, therapy and mental health treatments provided by others. These funds are specifically for 6 months rental of the Vale Rec club house where we meet every fortnight.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £780
St John’s Village Community Group
Coffee & Friendship: The group provide a space within St John’s Church spend one morning a week for the local community who may be feeling isolated or lonely. The funds will be used for refreshments, advertising, board games and colouring equipment, heating and lighting and IT support for seniors
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1000
GirlGuiding Guernsey
Purchase of child resuscitation manikins for training: To purchase at least two child resuscitation manikins to be used in training First Response. This course is undertaken by all leaders who look after girls and young women and is vital for their safety.
Category: Inspiring the next generation & education
Amount donated: £500
Health Connections LBG
Community Transport Service: Our transport service takes isolated people with unmet transport needs to their essential appointments and activities. This funding will help towards 40 first aid kits for their fleet of cars.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £424*
Autism Guernsey
Music Therapy for Individuals with Autism: To help with the running of music therapy sessions. These take place on a weekly 1:1 basis in individuals' homes. The Music therapist will tailor their approach to meet the needs of each individual, working to build a therapeutic relationship and to foster interaction through live improvised music using a wide range of instruments, songs and music technology
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1920
Edible Guernsey
Soft fruit area expansion: We intend to use any funds granted to expand the area we currently have planted to soft fruit. Fruit produced will be sold on our Hedge Veg shed. The proceeds from sales will be ploughed back into expanding the area we are using to grow fruit and vegetables. Funds will go toward a fruit cage and fruit bushes
Category: Supporting local & Fairtrade
Amount donated: £600
Guernsey Fostercare and Adoption Association
Welcome Boxes: Many children enter foster care with few belongings and with their future unknown this is a time of high anxiety. The welcome box is a very simple way to comfort a child when they enter foster care. There is a general list of essentials such as journals, fleecy blanket, colouring books, pencils and crayons, but the social worker will add things that are specific to the child in order that it feels more personal. The funds will go towards creating these boxes.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £750
St Matthew's church Map group
Pedestrian access gate to church field: The grant will help provide a wooden gate in keeping with the rural aspect of the area and to clear a short path into the field from a safer entry point, to be accessible to the community including baby buggy and wheelchair users.
Category: Social inclusion & accessibility
Amount donated: £500
The Better Journey Project
Development & scaling fund: The Better Journey Project is a recently launched community project leading the way to more sustainable travel, whilst also improving wellbeing, mental health and reducing on-island emissions through modal transportation shift. Funding will help towards operational costs.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £1500*
St Peter's Church, St. Pierre du Bois
Monthly Lunch Club (for Seniors): We host a cooked two course nutritious meal for around 20 people most of whom are at least 75 years old. The focus is to reduce social isolation, increase social connectedness and provide a safe and predicable place for more vulnerable in the community.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1080
Channel Islands Air Search
Interactive Smart Boards for Emergency Briefings: We are a Search & Rescue Organisation that is called out for Emergency searches in the Channel Islands. The interactive boards will enable us to deliver a relevant & detailed briefing to the crew and will assist us to complete our pre-flight checklists in a more efficient manner.
Category: Health & wellbeing
Amount donated: £2000
The Smile for Georgie Foundation
The Smile for Georgie Foundation Nature Reserve: Creating a Nature Reserve at Creve Coeur in Guernsey. We are planning on installing picnic benches on the nature reserve and this sum will go towards meeting a part of this cost
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1500*
The Clean Earth Trust
The Clean Earth Trust is a local charity working to limit human impact on our environment. They run many successful projects including weekly beach cleans/surveys and a repair cafe. Running costs for the Charity will enable the weekly workshops to run and push forward with advancing on legislation/policy for items such as plastic free Guernsey and smoke free beaches.
Category: Preserving the local environment
Amount donated: £1500*
Le Marchant Ward
Day Room Facilities: The grant will help further equip our current dayroom with a hot drinks machine for relatives and patients and also especially adaptive chairs so patients who cannot sit in normal chairs can also enjoy the facilities of the day room.
Category: Supporting the aging population
Amount donated: £1500
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 Café project enables local cafés 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 café. 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*
*Partial funding
2021 recipients
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
