Children in Need funds are life-changing - charity

Funding from BBC Children in Need is being described as life-changing by one Guernsey charity.

Autism Guernsey was recently given £84,000 pounds to spend over three years, helping children with a new mental health and wellbeing project.

Julia Watts, the charity's CEO, said everyone involved was so thankful for the support that would allow them to work with 100 children: "I mean we are so grateful, I don't know how to express that in words.

"I know how many applicants that Children In Need have and they have to process, but to actually have the funding, it's life-changing probably for some of these young people that we are working with."

She said: "The programme is really about people with autism, young people and their mental health and wellbeing.

"We have three elements of the programme - that is an interception, an energy accounting and a friendship."

BBC Children in Need funds projects to help provide children and young people with someone to listen, someone to support them and someone to believe in them.

The official appeal day is Friday, where many events will be held across the Channel Islands to raise funds

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