Islanders’ views wanted on Lib Day celebrations

ISLANDERS can now provide feedback with their views of this year’s new and alternative Liberation Day set-up to inform the plans which are already under way for 2023.

St Peter’s held a ‘Let’s Party like it’s 1945’ event on at L’Eree for this year’s Liberation Day. Left to right, Jane England, Jo Huxtable, Nathalie Chandler, Nicola Walker, Jenny Turner and Scout the dog. (Picture by Luke Le Prevost, 31458446)

A survey commissioned by the Committee for Education, Sport & Culture has been published online for islanders to complete with their thoughts of past Liberation Day events and what they would like to see in future.

This year, for the first formal time after a post-Covid experiment in 2021, events were divided and celebrated by parish, as opposed to the large St Peter Port-based event that Guernsey was always used to.

Immediate feedback appeared to be relatively even for and against the new arrangements.

The cavalcade did a five-hour round trip of the island and stayed on schedule after considerable delays in 2021, with islanders observing from all around the island with family and friends.

Following this year’s event, ESC president Deputy Andrea Dudley-Owen said that the committee was still to wash-up on events, but it was looking like big Town closures for celebrations would happen only on quinquennial years in future, with the next possibility due in 2025.

The survey requires participants to select their favourite aspects of a general Liberation Day, how they typically spend their day, thoughts of last year’s set-up, and to rate the importance on amenities for a Liberation Day event.

All responses are anonymous and will be used to discover themes of islanders’ views, so no individual responses will be published.

n The survey should take around 10 minutes to complete and be found at https://survey.islandglobalresearch.com/s3/LiberationDay.