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THE ability to let available rooms at St Saviour’s Community Centre has been secured thanks to a donation from the Sure Community Foundation. The charity has given the centre £3,208.73 to buy a raft of new safety equipment, including fire alarm sensors, signs, directional lighting and extinguishers. Without the upgrade to its fire safety equipment – which has now been completed – the centre would have been unable to rent out its rooms.
THE ability to let available rooms at St Saviour’s Community Centre has been secured thanks to a donation from the Sure Community Foundation.
The charity has given the centre £3,208.73 to buy a raft of new safety equipment, including fire alarm sensors, signs, directional lighting and extinguishers.
Without the upgrade to its fire safety equipment – which has now been completed – the centre would have been unable to rent out its rooms.
‘The bottom line is that had we not had this kind donation from the Sure Community Foundation the community centre would have had no income as we didn’t meet fire department and building control requirements and therefore couldn’t hire out the available rooms,’ said Phil Duquemin, the community centre’s managing director.
‘The centre is extremely fortunate to have been supported by the foundation at this critical time. Our efforts to ensure that the rooms available can be fully let can now continue without delay.’
Karen Jagger from the foundation said it was just as important to support initiatives such as this as it was to fund projects with a more visible impact.
‘Things like fire safety equipment are so expensive and yet are vital for places such as community centres to continue operating safely and within regulations. The Sure Community Foundation is very pleased it has been able to secure the future of St Saviour’s Community Centre in this way,’ she said.
The Sure Community Foundation was established in June 2012 and has already donated more than £20,000 to around 20 different charities and groups. It has provided financial support to St John Ambulance for manikins; office and IT equipment for Young People Guernsey; covered the cost of cognitive brain training for Headway; donated funds to Every Child Our Future and the De Saumarez Trust for the redevelopment of Delancey Park and paid for the redecoration of the outside of Maison St Pierre, a home for mothers and children with nowhere to live.
