Spring 2024 – News and States Assembly
Apart from political unrest the one good thing recently was saving the Greve de Lecq café site from developers.
Our Wonderful Parish Communities
A Big Thank You!
There is much going on in the Parish at the moment and where many people give their time freely, to make our Parishes into Communities.
The areas I am involved in are:
• Organising the Parish Surgeries – which I hope you take advantage
Jersey Overseas Aid launches Community Works Projects for 2024
JOA Community Works Projects for 2024 Jersey Overseas Aid launched the Community Work Projects for 2024. These give opportunities to Islanders who wish to experience international development first hand.
Volunteers are able to broaden their knowledge and experiences but most importantly are able to benefit those living
Conservation and Livelihoods Conference in London
JOA and Durrell teamed up to host their second joint conference. The "Biodiversity Conservation and Rural Livelihoods: A Shared Future" conference Oct 2023 in London.
October 2023 Future Economy Programme
“Developed economies around the world are facing demographic challenges and, as the Strategy for Sustainable Economic Growth illustrates, Jersey is no different. These are challenges that future Governments will face, and we know we must act now so that we can preserve, protect, and improve our Island community and family life.
New Jersey Liberation Day
Earlier in the summer of 2023 I had the honour of hosting the Mayor of New Jersey and his delegation to Jersey to help celebrate our Liberation day. As well as the day parade I included a visit to the St Martin’s Celebrations and a trip ‘out west’ to the
Island Identity – information packs
Earlier this year, I supplied each of the Constables with the template of information to be given to new Parishioners to their Parishes. The ideas was to give a general Island piece of information that they could expand and individualise in each Parish.
I would be interested to hear what you
Autumn 2023 update
Since my last article earlier this summer, I have travelled to remote areas of Africa where my role as Minister for International Development and Chair of Jersey Overseas Aid took me to farms and milk collection centres to monitor and evaluate some of our Dairy projects in Zambia and Malawi.
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