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Community<br />
THE CIPD SIGNS UP TO THE EMPLOYERS’<br />
DISABILITY CHARTER<br />
The Guernsey branch of the<br />
CIPD has signed up to the<br />
Guernsey Employment Trust’s<br />
‘Employers’ Disability Charter’.<br />
The CIPD Guernsey branch<br />
has over 220 members from<br />
a variety of businesses across<br />
the island and is committed<br />
to working with organisations<br />
to shape the future of people<br />
management in the Bailiwick.<br />
Alison Hawkins from the CIPD<br />
said, ‘As the major representative<br />
of HR practitioners on the<br />
island, the local CIPD branch<br />
felt it natural to demonstrate,<br />
as a body, our support of and<br />
commitment to the charter, and<br />
to encourage employers locally<br />
to engage in disability matters,<br />
particularly in light of proposed<br />
legislative change.’<br />
The Charter is designed to help<br />
all businesses improve their work<br />
place practices, cultures and<br />
attitudes. It also helps to allay<br />
fears regarding the forthcoming<br />
disability discrimination legislation<br />
and any concerns around<br />
reasonable adjustments and<br />
associated perceived costs<br />
involved. It offers specific and<br />
realistic objectives that employers<br />
can be working towards.<br />
Nikki Ioannou-Droushiotis, the<br />
Chief Executive of GET, said ‘The<br />
Charter is aimed at employers<br />
on the island so having an<br />
organisation like the CIPD sign<br />
up is fantastic as they are not<br />
an employer in their own right,<br />
this is going the extra mile to<br />
help disabled and disadvantaged<br />
people in Guernsey.’<br />
RELATE GUERNSEY TO GET<br />
BOOST FROM LLOYDS BANK<br />
FOUNDATION<br />
Relate Guernsey has benefitted<br />
from a two-year grant from the<br />
Lloyds Bank Foundation for the<br />
Channel Islands which will support<br />
the charity’s core operating costs.<br />
This funding will be vital in enabling<br />
the relationship service to continue;<br />
helping with the administrative and<br />
running costs of the charity; and<br />
assisting with the training costs of<br />
the counsellors. This allows the<br />
service to be offered at a minimal<br />
charge. In addition, Relate Guernsey<br />
has seen a growing need for<br />
specialist services for young people<br />
who may be affected as a family<br />
member, as well as adults being<br />
referred from medical professionals<br />
for psychosexual therapy.<br />
Simon Wood, Relate Guernsey,<br />
said: ‘We are delighted to receive<br />
a grant from the Lloyds Bank<br />
Foundation for the Channel Islands,<br />
which will be a great help and will<br />
boost our ability to provide support<br />
and assistance to those who are<br />
experiencing relationship problems<br />
of one kind or another.<br />
CHARITIES BENEFIT FROM CAREY OLSEN<br />
STAFF SWIM AT BELLE GREVE BAY<br />
Staff from Carey Olsen took part<br />
in a lunchtime swim at Belle<br />
Greve Bay to raise money for<br />
the law firm’s two nominated<br />
charities - the Guernsey Cardiac<br />
Action Group and the Guernsey<br />
Child Contact Centre LBG.<br />
The 18 partners and staff who<br />
took part in the swim helped raise<br />
a total of £588 for the charities.<br />
It was the second year in a row<br />
that Carey Olsen had held its ‘Big<br />
Chill Challenge’, which sees staff<br />
members take to the chilly waters<br />
provided their colleagues can raise<br />
the necessary funds to take them<br />
from a ‘volunteer’ to a ‘swimmer’.<br />
If they have been nominated but<br />
would rather spectate then they<br />
have to pay a buy-out.<br />
Carey Olsen Senior Associate Adrian<br />
Sarchet, who is chairman of the<br />
firm’s Guernsey charities committee<br />
and someone who took part in the<br />
swim earlier this month, said: ‘The<br />
swim was a great success last year<br />
so it was an easy decision to repeat<br />
it. We tried to make it a little more<br />
daunting for our swimmers this<br />
time around by doing it a few weeks<br />
earlier in the year but were blessed<br />
with even better weather. Perhaps<br />
next year we’ll have to hold the<br />
event in January!<br />
Carey Olsen’s Guernsey office<br />
has committed to support<br />
both charities through various<br />
fundraising events for a two-year<br />
period up to June 2019.<br />
LE MURIER VILLAGE<br />
PROJECT TO BENEFIT FROM<br />
SKIPTON SWIMARATHON<br />
The Skipton Swimarathon<br />
Committee has selected Le Murier<br />
School’s Village Project to be<br />
the main beneficiary of the 2018<br />
event. Money raised from the<br />
Swimarathon will go towards the<br />
building of four log cabins, designed<br />
to help the students of the school<br />
learn independent living skills.<br />
Le Murier School devised The<br />
Village after identifying that some<br />
of their students were not fully<br />
prepared for life after school. It’s<br />
designed to simulate the real world,<br />
giving all students from the school<br />
and those in the community the<br />
opportunity to develop valuable life<br />
skills to prepare them for running<br />
their own home or to live within a<br />
supported living setting.<br />
Nick Guillemette, Chairman of the<br />
Skipton Swimarathon, said: ‘We<br />
were overwhelmed by the number<br />
of worthy applications but felt that<br />
The Village project was one that<br />
the whole community would really<br />
get behind to support.’<br />
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