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agencies such as: Alcohol and Drugs, Mental Health, Social Security, Silkworth Lodge, Citizen’s Advice and Health & Social Services to ensure they can offer the best level of support and guidance to our residents. Work with the prison service and probation to provide accommodation and work programmes for former prisoners and those on bail is also ongoing.


All of our residents are encouraged to work in community projects, including our allotment, and help is given to find paid and voluntary employment. Most importantly though, the residents are always listened to and always have somebody to talk to. Once they are ready to move on they are not forgotten either; as they can still maintain contact with the team through our outreach service.


The joint running costs for both facilities is approximately £250,000 per year, which equates to just under £30 per man per day. Income is drawn from small amounts of rent from residents in employment; or from social security payments for housing benefit for those who are unemployed.


The charity receives no annual financial


support from the States of Jersey and as such, it operates with a funding gap, or budgetary deficit, of well over £100,000. Fundraising is therefore vital and we are always overwhelmed by how supportive the local community is. Last year, due to Covid- 19 social distancing regulations, most of our charity events were cancelled but people still donated and a number of grants were successfully applied for thanks to organisations like the Jersey Funders Group.


In 2019, we were overwhelmed with the support we received to our annual ‘Walk into Light’, which starts in the dark at 04.30a.m. from Corbiere. Over 350 people turned up to the event and made their way along the Railway Walk with candles to reach St Aubin for daybreak and bacon rolls. Between them they raised over £13,000 for the charity.


Our revamped ‘Sleep out for Sanctuary Trust’ was also launched in 2019 to great success. Over 70 people turned up to Pier Road car park in November armed with their sleeping bags and hats and gloves to support us. We had buskers, a film and bedtime yoga before bedding down for the night on a piece of cardboard.


It’s events like this that not only help raise vital funds for the charity but also raise the profile and the work we are doing to help the homelessness in our community. Creating a better understanding and awareness of the issue is key to shattering the illusion that there is not a problem here.


We are lucky to live in such an empathetic Island with many supporters that are fully on-board with our


cause. It is thanks to their support, the donations from a number of wealthy residents and the generosity of the local business community that we remain afloat. Their compassion helps us thrive as a charity with a hidden cause that might be out of sight but is clearly not out of mind.


Since writing this article, the 2020 Sleep Out for Sanctuary Trust has been postponed due to government guideline restrictions on social gatherings. The organisers have estimated that last year (2020), the charity lost approximately £30,000 in fundraising revenue from cancelling fundraising events due to Covid-19.


Pictured left to right: Senator Kristina Moore, Brett Cutts and Lynn Schofield - Photograph by Gary Grimshaw


Beyond 20/20 - Philanthropy


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