Charity reflects on changing needs over 25 years
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Help a Guernsey Child says it has provided in excess of £1.2m worth of essential support.
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Help a Guernsey Child says it works through professional referrers who know the children A charity that raises funds to provide children with "essential items" has said families are facing "changing pressures" as celebrates its 25th anniversary. Help a Guernsey Child said since it was created in 2001 it has provided more than £1.2m worth of essential items, equipment, services and support to local children and young people. The charity said in its early years it gave financial support to a number of larger community projects benefiting children but there was now an increasing focus on helping individual children and families. Alex Jenner, from Help a Guernsey Child, said: "Over the past 25 years, we have seen significant changes in the types of support families require." Listen to the latest news for Guernsey Jenner said despite changes in needs the charity's "purpose has remained the same, to ensure that children in the Bailiwick are not disadvantaged because they lack the…