Charity

Channel Island Ceramics supports a number of local charitable organisations including many local school PTAs, The British Red Cross Society, Maison St Pierre home for girls, Project Rhino and the Guernsey branch of Action Aid.

Maison St Pierre Home for Girls

There are many low key organisations in Guernsey that offer services to the local community. Maison St Pierre offers short term accommodation for young women who through, often violent, circumstances have nowhere else to go. They offer accommodation for up to ten girls including their children, and this fills a gap in what is on offer from social services. In 2009 a group of Channel Island Ceramics employees pooled their charity days and fitted the kitchen and appliances that were supplied by their employer at a reduced rate. (Channel Island Ceramics Staff are allocated 2 charity days per year).

Project Rhino

Founded in 1988 by Spencer and the late Janet Gelsthorpe as a personal effort to preserve the black rhinoceros in Africa, this charity has developed into supporting the local communities in these areas. Recent projects have included the re-building of a primary school in Kenya and constructing medical dispensary centres. Guernsey volunteers are often involved providing valuable skills to aid the construction of buildings on site, including in 1999 the Gitwe Water Project, which was partly financed by the States of Guernsey and built by a team of volunteers from the Island and Anglian Water.

Channel Island Ceramics supports this trust by displaying and selling African sculptures, the proceeds of which go directly to the charity to benefit small communities in Zimbabwe. For more information on how you can assist, please contact the Project Rhino Charitable Trust Organisers, Chatsworth, Rue de la Mare, Torteval, Guernsey

Tel: +44 (0)1481 264612
Fax: +44 (0)1481 266881
email: rhino.shier@guernsey.net

Action Aid

ActionAid is a unique partnership of people who are fighting for a better world - a world without poverty. As one of the UK’s largest development agencies, they work in more than 30 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, listening to, learning from and working in partnership with over nine million of the world’s poorest people.

Their vision is a world without poverty in which every person can exercise their right to a life of dignity. Their mission is to work with poor and marginalised people to eradicate the causes of poverty by overcoming the injustice and inequity. As an organisation, it works by the following values of mutual respect, equity and justice, honesty and transparency, solidarity with poor and marginalised people, courage of conviction, humility.

They believe that by fighting poverty together - working with poor local communities, national governments and international organisations - they can help bring about real change to the lives of poor people.

Click on logo to visit the official website or click here to view information about the latest project.

If you are organising a charity raffle and require prizes, please contact a member of the Channel Island Ceramics staff who may be able to assist.

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