Author Archive for James Qualtrough

Participating walkers and local charities will gather for a presentation event at Les Rocquettes Hotel this evening to celebrate the whopping £40,000 raised following June’s Itex-Rotary Around the Island Walk. During the event, the benefitting charities will be awarded their donations by His Excellency, the Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey Sir Fabian Malbon and Lady Malbon, [...]

THE wet weather didn’t hold back the many young explorers who visited the North Show last week. Over 150 children took part in the North Show Explorer competition which was organised by the show’s sponsor, De Putron Fund Management. A series of questions, on the many sights and sounds of the event, took the young [...]

Chartered Surveyors and Property Consultants, Jones Watts Limited, has recently strengthened its professional team with the appointment of Chartered Commercial Property Surveyor, Wing Lai MSc MRICS, and Graduate surveyor Nicole Ozanne MPlan. Wing joins the firm having qualified as a Chartered Surveyor in 2009 whilst working as an Asset Manager for Bruntwood Limited, one of [...]

Wave Telecom is calling all islanders who are planning to travel to Jersey for Jersey Live 2010 to get involved in its sister company’s initiative to create Jersey’s largest ‘tagged’ photo of the event. Jersey Telecom will take a crowd photo from the main stage of the event on Saturday 4th September at 6pm which [...]

Kleinwort Benson has been appointed fund administrator for a market-leading Guernsey domiciled fund, with a launch value of US$150 million. Kleinwort Benson (Channel Islands) Fund Services Limited has helped Prosperity Capital Management (“Prosperity”) Limited to successfully launch its fourth Guernsey domiciled closed ended fund, Prosperity Quest II Unlisted Limited, demonstrating Guernsey’s position as a robust [...]

Collins Stewart Wealth Management (“CSWM”) is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher Sherwell as a Non-Executive Director (NED) of Collins Stewart (Channel Islands) Limited (“CSCI”) with immediate effect. Mr Sherwell has extensive business and board room experience, holding NED positions on a number of investment related companies offshore. In a wide-ranging career, Mr Sherwell [...]

Huelin-Renouf Shipping has awarded a bursary worth £4,500 over three years to a young Channel Islander whose ambition is to pursue a life at sea. Ashley Foster is a 19-year-old Alderney student about to embark on a four-year degree course at Plymouth University where he will study Merchant Shipping Marine Studies with the aim of [...]

GUERNSEY’S only provider of full outsourced HR services is celebrating three successful years in business. Katie Vidamour and Becky Machon founded Focus HR Solutions in 2007 when they were just 24 years old, to capitalise on what they saw as the future of the industry in Guernsey.  Their original aim has remained unchanged. “With the [...]

A group of local companies joined forces today to clean up Saumarez Park which has played host to the North Show over the last two days. Coordinated for the second year by sponsors of the event, De Putron Fund Management, a number of employees worked hard to help to restore the area’s tidy appearance over [...]

Mark Roberts has been crowned the Guernsey racketball champion after winning the first Butterfield Closed Racketball Tournament. Roberts clinched the title in the final match against Mick Mahy with a 2 – 0 result at the tournament organised by the Guernsey Squash & Racketball Association at Beau Sejour. 21 competitors entered and the tournament kicked [...]