The recipients of the money from the organisation’s Helping Hands fund include Jersey’s Beresford Street Kitchen, which trains and supports people with autism and other learning disabilities. It received £1,000.
LGBTQ Youth Jersey also received £500 in funding towards its work with the Island’s young lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and questioning community.
David Bras, assistant youth worker at LGBTQ Youth Jersey, said the money would be put towards running youth club sessions and programmes to provide further support to the young people they work with.
He added: ‘These sessions give them the opportunity to learn about their own identities and to work on building relationships with the wider community. It also helps young people to experience a sense of belonging and being an important part of the community.’
The society received more than 140 requests for funding. The fund was set up in 1995 to support good causes in the Channel Islands and has given out around £270,000 to date.
Katey White, the society’s membership and community manager, said: ‘It’s always a difficult process choosing which charities to support as there are so many good causes in the islands doing great work. We look at each individual application and try to make our donations benefit as many charities and people as possible.’
