Cheshire Home: we need £330k
GUERNSEY'S Cheshire Home has launched a major new fundraising appeal as it looks to address a huge shortfall in revenue.
With no direct funding from the States, the home needs to raise £500,000 each year but the current income projection for 2014 is just £170,000.
Although chairman Advocate Rob Shepherd was keen to stress there was no imminent danger of the facility in the Rohais having to close, he said the charity needed to do something in order to address the issue.
It is therefore looking to the public for help and launching a 'Final Hour' salary appeal, which asks islanders to donate their last hour's pay from 2014 to the cause or even the last hour's pay of every month.
'We are a well-run and well-governed charity and we have reserves to continue for some time, but we can't carry on as we are as the present level of funding is not sustainable,' said Advocate Shepherd.
'We have raised £170,000 this year but that is not enough.'
