DBO Go Green in Aid of Local Environmental Projects on Friday 26 September

On Friday September 26, The Gerard Le Claire Environmental Trust is holding Green Day 2003 to raise funds for local environmental projects. This fundraising day is being supported by Jersey Telecom and Deutsche Bank Offshore.

Jersey companies and schools are being asked to encourage their employees and pupils to 'GO GREEN'. This can be done in a number of ways, including running a dress down day or asking people to wear an item of green clothing in return for making a donation to the Gerard Le Claire Environmental Trust.

Deutsche Bank Offshore has worked with the Gerard Le Claire Environmental Trust in connection with the Funky Junk project in local primary schools and first supported Green Day in June 2002. "We are fully committed to the promotion of environmental initiatives and are very pleased to lend our support to the Green Day to deliver a message to the wider community", said DBO chief executive, Peter Pichler.

At present the Trust is involved in applications for planting trees at a number of locations, installing bat boxes across the island, running innovative environmental awareness-raising projects in schools, making a film of the internationally recognised conservation area of the south-east coast, to name but a few.

"All of our Trustees give their time voluntarily and every penny of the money raised will go towards local environmental projects, said Sarah le Claire, chairperson of the Trust. "We hope that many people will even be encouraged to cycle or take the bus to work on that Friday!"

For more information regarding Deutsche Bank Offshore's support of the Gerard Le Claire Trust, please visit our community pages