Funding helps youth charity extend services

Senior youth worker Cleo Thomas said the funding meant the Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney could offer more activities

A charity helping young people says Children in Need funding has helped them extend services.

The Youth Commission for Guernsey and Alderney runs activities and support services across the bailiwick for children and their families.

It recently received a £4,400 grant from Children in Need to help provide sports activities for young people in Alderney with the aim of "better identifying and positively managing their own emotions".

Senior youth worker Cleo Thomas said the funding had been "really important" in helping the charity offer services in Alderney.

Ms Thomas said the charity wanted to ensure finance "was not a boundary" for anyone accessing its services.

"As a service, the youth commission tries really hard to extend their services over to Alderney," she said.

"However, that can be really challenging sometimes with resourcing and staffing.

"This money really helps us to be able to work collaboratively with other organisations to provide opportunities and activities for the island's young people."