The Sure Community Foundation has donated £22,000 to local causes since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
Alongside donations, support was given to organisations who have relied on Sure's services during lockdown, including free access to voice conferencing services and WiFi to keep businesses running and for families to keep in touch.
The Sure Community Foundation is a charitable enterprise created by telecoms company Sure, and is run by its staff.
£12,700 was raised by employees since the outbreak of coronavirus, which was matched pound for pound by their employer and then distributed across a number of causes.
Organisations such as the Guernsey Lions Club and St Martin’s Church were given free access to Sure’s voice conference service to ensure that meetings and services could still be carried out during lockdown. WiFi has also been provided to some homes to support students having to work and learn from home, and 10 mobile phones were issues to the charity Safer, who assist people suffering from domestic abuse.
Donations were also made to organisations who needed to alter their services in order to continue to provide support during lockdown. £500 was donated to the Guernsey Welfare Service to support efforts to deliver food packages to vulnerable islanders, and £3,240 was donated to Mind Guernsey for equipment to help staff cope with increased working hours due to increased demand.
The Foundation has also supported the MS Society, who have recently reopened their services. A donation has been granted which will cover the costs of exercise classes for people with MS for the next six months.
“Everyone involved with the Foundation has been working incredibly hard to help as many people as possible,” said Karen Jagger of the Sure Community Foundation.
“Although our support is often only small, we hope that we have helped islanders.”
Pictured top: A volunteer from the We All Matter Eh! Charity, who partnered with the Sure Community Foundation to provide support for islanders in residential accommodation.
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