Sponsor backs island team through to 2013

Monday 19th May 2008, 2:29PM BST.

FORTIS will once again be getting behind the Guernsey Island Games team when it competes in Aland next summer.

The financial services company has renewed its sponsorship of the Guernsey Island Games Association in a significant deal that will see Fortis provide financial support until 2013. The funding will help with travel and kit costs as well as providing administrative support.

Fortis have been involved in the Games since they were staged in Guernsey in 2003, becoming sole sponsor of the local Island Games Association in 2005.

Giga is run by a management board on which two members of Fortis staff sit. Former athlete Caroline Wickham is secretary and liaison and swimmer Chris Adkins is responsible for host island entries as administration director. Chairman of Giga, Denise Fawcett, heads the expanded committee.