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Cultural trips to museums, film conferences and pottery workshops were among almost 60 overseas trips by islanders subsidised by a relaunched charitable fund.
Details of the grants made by the Rivington Fund, which was established following a bequest in 2002 in the will of a St. Brelade resident, are spelled out in the trust’s annual report for 2022.
William Richmond-Pickering, an islander with a love of travel and the arts, bequeathed his house at Park Estate, which was valued at £325,000 in 2004 and subsequently sold.
The contents of the fund were then made available to applicants who wanted financial support for trips they might otherwise struggle to afford.
Although the trust was required to publicise its existence and purpose, only ten grants were made during the six-year period prior to 2022, when it was relaunched under the administration of ArtHouse Jersey.
During 2022, a total of £66,000 – around three-quarters of the fund’s budget of £89,000 – was awarded, the annual report notes.
This sum went towards 59 people, covering both group and individual trips, with 29% of the grants covering UK trips, 47% for visits to mainland Europe and the balance for further-flung destinations.
Pictured: Youthful Minds members at Hallgrímskirkja in Iceland on a trip subsidised by the Rivington Fund.
Group trips included cultural visits by 25 islanders to Edinburgh and Reykjavik, organised by Youthful Minds and subsidised at around £1,000 per person, and £8,000 towards a trip to a pottery workshop in Wales by Jersey Action Against Rape, described by one of the seven attendees as "life-changing".
Individual grants enabled trips including the Tate Museum in Liverpool, a conference for film festival writers in Texas, and the Picasso Museum in Barcelona.
Applications to the fund can be made via online, with quarterly deadlines of at the beginning of November, February, May and August.
Pictured top: A group of 12 young islanders visited Reykjavik in Iceland, including the renowned Rainbow Road attraction, earlier this year.
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