Funds shortage closes Brig-y-Don

Saturday 2nd May 2009, 2:59PM BST.

Brig-y-Don has been a care home for children for 80 years. This fete was held in 1939

THE Brig-y-Don children’s home in St Clement is to close in August with the loss of 15 jobs.

The building has been a care home for Island youngsters for 80 years and its closure has been attributed to a shortage of funding.

However, a deal has been reached with the Health and Social Services Department that the staff will be offered jobs in child care in the public sector for those who want to continue their careers.

The home is run by the Brig-y-Don Charitable Trust, which began its work in 1925 and became a formal association in 1939.

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kate

May 2, 2009 at 5:32 pm

Any closing of a childrens home has to be a good thing. I say this in respect that in this day and age foster care has to be the better option than an instertution. I know this home has done wonderful things for children and it truely is a wonderful place with plenty of good staffing care.What will the home be used for now i wonder and what will become of the many memrorials on site there for which people have given over the years.

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Puzzled, again...

May 4, 2009 at 12:16 pm

…and we await the planning application for redevelopment that will surely follow all to quickly after the home closes???

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craupaup in exile

May 5, 2009 at 3:18 pm

I spent many very, very happy weeks at Brig-y-Don in the mid 1950s on more that one ocasion.I will never ever forget the kindness and loving warmth shown to me and my siblings, who knew nothing but hunger and coldness with hard un-feeling parents who only saw us children as a way to get states housing without having to work very hard.I feel real sadness that this warm nest is to close…

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