Lloyds Bank Foundation for the Channel Islands gives grants to charities helping disadvantaged people play a fuller role in the community.
The Foundation also provides developmental support including mentoring, to help charities to improve their resilience and sustainability. As a grant recipient, Bright Beginning’s Children Centre invited Trustees of the Foundation to attend the centre and find out more about the role it plays in the community. Trustee Poppy Murray explains more:
With boxes filled with children’s clothes grouped by age range stacked in the corner and toddlers running around tables as an Old-MacDonald-singalong carried down the corridors into the café, it would be easy forget that Bright Beginnings is far from simply a provider of fun and games. In fact, with no other service provider on the island, the charity plays a critical role in the development of the island’s future generations.
Labelled the “fulfilment of a dream” by a Founder Rachel Copeland, Guernsey’s only children’s centre has grown from supporting 3-10 families on its inception in 2017, to catering to the growing needs of more than 150 families a week.
From prenatal and postnatal classes, therapeutic groups and counselling services to peer support, a dad’s group and activities designed to support healthy relationships, the services offered by Bright Beginnings have developed over time to support the physical, emotional and mental health of parents and children alike.
“We work with the families to benefit the child. We are a place where people can come to build essential trusting relationships,” said Mrs Copeland.
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