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A donation from Guernsey Electricity’s community fund has enabled St Mary and St Michael Primary School to complete the refurbishment of its library.
The school received £750 from the fund, which it is using to buy new chairs and shelving units to display bigger books in the infant section of the library.
‘The library hasn’t been updated in about 20 years, so it’s fantastic to get this donation from Guernsey Electricity, without which we wouldn’t have been able to buy these new shelving untis and chairs,’ said Year 4 teacher and library co-ordinator, Becky Hockey.
‘The library is used by all children at least once a week as well as during lunchtime clubs run by our Year 6 monitors. So it’s really important that we have managed to update it and provide a bright, comfortable reading space.’
The Guernsey Electricity Community Fund was established in 2015 to to support small projects benefitting parishioners in Vale and St Sampson’s. It has already supported the Bridge Floral Group by enhancing an underused area of land at Northside, installing a granite bench in the new gardens outside the showroom.
‘Guernsey Electricity has a strong community focus as every single islander is a customer of ours. We support dozens of charities and organisations each year, but wanted a specific fund which would benefit the parishes which are our neighbours,’ said Guernsey Electricity’s communications manager Clare Packman.
Year 4 pupil Charlie Le Poidevin, nine, said: It’s really nice, the chairs are really comfortable. The library was a bit old before, the books are really well organised now.’
