By JANE MOY Centre Point Trust
CHILDREN’S CHARITY
has record year
Centre Point Trust has celebrated their 30th anniversary with a record year of activity.
The Trust is a non-profit-making registered charity, providing quality, flexible childcare and a safe place for children to play and spend their leisure time. The charity provides around 500 local children with a fun and enjoyable child-centred environment in which they can take part in activities that challenge and stimulate them. The year 2014 saw a number of significant achievements for Centre Point Trust including its 30th Anniversary, and the expansion and enhancement of its facilities and services.
CEO of Centre Point. Jane Moy, said: ‘2014 has seen a number of significant developments for Centre Point Trust, particularly in terms of increasing our service provisions to meet the needs of our community. We have increased our Le Hurel Nursery opening times at our La Pouquelaye site to full-time, year round care to accommodate demand, and have introduced a new Child Contact Centre.
The Centre Point Trust Child Contact Centre provides a safe, friendly and neutral place where children of separated families can spend time with one or both parents, and sometimes other family members. This much-needed service is available to families on selected weekday evenings, as well as weekends to accommodate the individual needs of the families concerned.
‘These achievements, amongst many others in 2014, serve as a reminder to me and all of the Centre Point staff of the importance of the work that we do, and of the services that we provide to our community.’
We asked the Patron and the Chairman for their thoughts and experiences of working with the Trust.
Patron - The Countess of Jersey As a working mother of three young children I understand the importance of children having somewhere safe to be when you cannot be with them. I was fortunate that, from a young age, I lived in the
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same area as my grandparents. This meant that, as two children of working parents, my brother and I had a safe, loving and nurturing place to be while our parents were at work.
However, we now live in a time where people are forced to work longer hours and geographically many do not have a family-based support network to help take care of their children. For many, particularly single parents, Centre Point Trust is the place where their children go each day. A place where they are kept safe, nurtured and helped to grow, where they get to enjoy various activities and where they can have fun with staff that are so dedicated to their jobs.
I am delighted to have become part of the Centre Point family and it is a family where people care for and look out for each other and where memories and friendships are made. Parents are able to trust the staff to care for their children and they in turn can get on with daily life and the job of providing for their children; that can make such a difference for both the parent and the child.
I hope that my association with Centre Point Trust will be a long and successful one and I hope very much to be a piece of the fabric of the quilt that makes this wonderful charity so very special.
Chairman of the Trust - Nigel Hill I first met Jane in 2011 at a Jersey Finance dinner - State Street had a table and also supported the event. I had known about CPT because they are co-located with POSH (Parish of St Helier) Youth Club, an organisation to which State Street had made various charitable donations over the preceding years. Jane and I got talking and her magnetism, strength of character and will- power convinced me that CPT was a good place to be! I came onto the Board in November 2011 and was elected Chairman in December of that year. I am now in my
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