Annual grants to Visit Jersey (FOI)Annual grants to Visit Jersey (FOI)
Produced by the Freedom of Information officeAuthored by Government of Jersey and published on
28 May 2021.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request
How much in Grants have Visit Jersey been paid since they were established and how much of those grants have been paid back to date.
Response
Visit Jersey was incorporated on 26 September 2014, but did not take over from the States of Jersey Tourism Department until 30 March 2015.
Below is the financial analysis that shows how much has been paid to Visit Jersey in grant payments since it was formed in 2015. The payment for 2021 is the first half of the year. The £2,585,074 paid to Visit Jersey in 2015 was the balance remaining of the £5,200,000 (the remainder having been spent or committed by Jersey Tourism in the first three months of the year). No grants have been paid back to date.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | Grand Total |
Total | £2,585,074 | £5,100,000 | £5,100,000 | £,5,000,000 | £4,900,000 | £4,378,000 | £2,450,000 | £29,513,074 |