According to the organisation’s 2019 Annual Report, “not many funders are willing to award grants for salaries, so the level of grants awarded annually for salary support continues to rise.”

This rise can be seen across the past two years – the £449,578 salary support in the year ending 31st March 2018 accounted for 41% of grants awarded by the Association that year. In comparison, 2019’s salaries allocation accounted for over 60% of the total grants awarded. 

A spike was particularly notable in the June quarter of the year, where over £250,000 was awarded in salaries. 

Some of the recipients of the largest grants for staff costs across the year were: 

  • Aspire Charitable Trust (t/a Beresford Street Kitchen) – £50,000 to cover salaries at a new cafe at La Hougue Bie
  • Brightly – £44,000 to cover staff costs (£30,000) and £14,000 towards financial support for young people
  • Arthouse Jersey – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Jersey Hospice Care – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Community Savings Ltd – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Headway Jersey – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Every Child Our Future – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Jersey Alzheimer’s Association – £30,000 for staff costs
  • St Johns Ambulance – £30,000 for staff costs
  • Music in Action – £29,600 for staff costs

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Pictured: The proportion of grants for salaries has risen by over 20% in the last two years. 

The overall figure for grants given by the Association in 2019 was £942,836, distributed across 43 local charities.

Due to the lack of a distributor of the lottery fund for the year, over more than a third of the funds (£364,155), were taken from the Association’s own resources.  

However, an interim distribution of £1 million from the 2018 lottery was received towards the end of the year to make up the rest of the costs. 

Some of the largest grants outside of staff costs in the report went towards: 

  • NSPCC – £50,000 towards costs of Let the Future In programme
  • Jersey Heritage Trust – £31,200 to fund an archiving project of Jersey Occupation Collections for 75th Anniversary of the Liberation
  • Autism Jersey – £30,000 for an IT infrastructure upgrade
  • Jersey Battle of Flowers Events – £30,000 for media and promotional costs
  • Durrell – £30,000 towards creating Wild Learning Space with new toilet block
  • Jersey Employment Trust – £28,875 for an IT infrastructure upgrade
  • Holidays for Heroes – £28,000 to bring extra ‘heroes’ to the island for Liberation 75
  • Caring Cooks of Jersey – £27,094 for operational costs
  • Silkworth Lodge – £27,000 for the teenager and adolescent support service
  • Brighter Futures – £25,000 for the Parenting programme

The Association state in the report that they had £359,582 left over from the lottery profits to distribute, which would fund the 2020 June and September quarters and the majority of the Association’s restricted reserves.

In June 2020, £97,900 of the lottery fund was allotted across four charities: 

  • Brightly – £30,000 to cover the costs of nursery placements for care-leavers’ children
  • Lymphoedema Jersey – £12,900 for a nurse/therapist salary
  • NSPCC Jersey – £30,000 for the ‘Let the Future In’ programme
  • Aspire Charitable Trust / Beresford Street Kitchen – £25,000 ‘conditional’ for staff costs at the new La Hougue Bie café

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Pictured: The June sector in particular saw a large proportion of grants going towards salaries and staff costs.

The report also highlighted the Association’s Training Courses, which are free to participants. It stated that of the 22 courses put on, 212 participants attended.

Speaking of the attendance, Administrator Lyn Wilton commented that “the attendance figures for some of this training was not as well attended as we would have liked, considering the number of people working and volunteering in the sector, and it should be considered that there is always something new to learn – look on the training as Continuous Personal Development, and make a commitment to attend as much as possible in the future.”

Chairman Liz Le Poidevin, referencing the overall performance in the report, said that “2019 was an exceptional year for the Association.”

“Although the States have yet to appoint a distributor for CI Lottery profits, we continued with our own grants programme to fulfil our obligation and commitment of support to local charities with the results that are published in full detail in the Annual Report,” she said. 

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