A DOZEN local organisations shared a total of £30,000 at the inaugural Barclays Wealth Champion Charities 2011.

THE Guernsey Arts Commission is appealing to islanders and businesses for help to fund its community arts projects.

COLLEGE funding should be increased rather than reduced, former BBC South political editor and old Elizabethan Bruce Parker said at last night’s Elizabeth College presentation evening.

COLLEGES will try to avoid a hike in fees in the wake of losing almost a quarter of their taxpayer funding, two governors have said.

A THREAT to cut the funding for Channel Island rugby is a serious one.

IN A recent column I gave a rundown of a dozen big issues this States has to address over the next year or so – but I forgot one potentially controversial subject.

ONE of the superficially puzzling aspects of the row about taxpayers’ funding of the colleges is why the Education minister chose to trigger it in the first place.

EDUCATION could save up to £3m. a year if it stopped sending top 11-plus pupils to the three private colleges.

BANKS would be prepared to lend to the States of Guernsey to get urgent capital projects under way.