Charities invited to apply for £10,000 grant

Grow received the grant last year and planned to use the money to fund five flood benches in its glasshouses

Applications for a £10,000 grant are being accepted by a Guernsey-based charitable project.

Dougie's Grant was set up in memory of local entrepreneur Dougie Le Huquet, who died aged 99 in 2021.

His daughter, Michelle Knowles, said it was her father's wish for the project to be established to benefit local causes.

In 2024 the grant went to Grow Limited and Ms Knowles said: "I am very much looking forward to reading this year's applications."

She said her father owned "a chain of chip shops and developed commercial and residential property in Guernsey, Jersey and the United States".

"In its inaugural year the grant was awarded to Mill Street Community Cafe.

"In 2023 it went to the Guille-Allès Library where it has been used to fund six new, top-of-the-range desktop PC's providing IT and internet access to hundreds of islanders who may otherwise be digitally excluded."

She said applications for the grant were being invited until 31 October with the successful applicant due to be announced on 19 December, which was Mr Le Huquet's birthday.