New foundation aims to help all charities

Tuesday 27th July 2010, 2:29PM BST.

RESEARCH is to be carried out into how local charities could operate more effectively.

Guernsey Community Foundation chairman Stuart Falla, left, and board member David Warr at the launch of its research into the island’s charitable sector. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 1004550)

Newly-formed Guernsey Community Foundation, which was set up in April, has commissioned a report from a team at Bristol University – the same researchers who produced the Townsend Report, a survey of living standards and relative poverty in Guernsey.

The foundation’s chairman is businessman Stuart Falla, a former deputy chief minister. He said the research was intended to form a scientific insight into social inclusion in Guernsey, and how the charitable sector could improve opportunities for those on the fringes of society.