Charities having to cope with less money
Tuesday 5th March 2013, 5:00PM GMT.
CHARITIES in Guernsey are facing a funding shortfall.
After releasing details of which charities have been given help from its quarterly grants programme, the Guernsey Community Foundation also revealed it managed to meet only 8% of the funding requests received throughout the year.
The total value of applications was more than £500,000 and the foundation was able to grant just over £41,000 of these requests.
Its development manager, Sadie Siviter de Paucar, pictured, said the shortfall showed that charities in the island are struggling. ‘The first year of the programme was really a test and we have been overwhelmed by the response. This shows there is a lack of funding for charities.’
To try to address the gap in aid, Mrs Siviter de Paucar explained that they would attempt to secure more backing from business.
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Maybe the Overseas Aid committee could divert a little bit of the hundreds of thousands it sends out of the island every year…charity begins at home in my opinion.
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The best intentions I am sure, but to be perfectly honest a ‘foundation’ which can only give £41K to worthy causes and stimulates £500K of requests is hardly fit for purpose. I would like to know what the foundation costs to run, salaries of those employed – then we’d have a better idea of the foundations worth. Not being too harsh just realistic.
We certainly don’t need to pay someone to tell us charities are finding it hard to fund their activities, families are finding it hard to feed themselves of stave off the fascist Income Tax department.
Mrs De Paucar – what’s the score?
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I regret that charities are having to fund a spokesperson to tell us, who do give time and resources in order to give something back into our community. Fund raising is at the best of times very hard work, thankfully there are always kind hearted citizens who will gladly give what they can afford and, I do hope that they will not be deterred by the fact that someone is being paid to tell Guernsey what we already are aware of.
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Are you sure there is payment involved? I don’t know either but it’s possible she could be doing it voluntarily.
I think the major issue facing charities is there are an huge number of them competing for an ever-decreasing pot of money. According to the Association of Guernsey Charities there are over 250 charities locally, let alone the 160,000+ charities in the UK people can give to.
With numbers like that it’s inevitable that some are going to struggle. Smaller ones are going to be more vulnerable as larger charities command some pretty hefty advertising budgets, so they are the ones who are going to be at the forefront of many peoples minds.
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PLP, it states in the new piece that she is the ‘Development Manager’ – she will be an employee of the foundation.
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King Maker – that alone doesn’t mean she is paid, volunteers can have job titles too.
As I said I don’t know for certain but is there anywhere in the full GP article that specifically states she receives a salary?
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PLP – Believe me, she receives a salary.
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