SEVERAL organisations were recipients of good cheer during the just-concluded festive season under the 2014 Xmas Community Support Programme of the Grand Coast Hotel, located at Lots 1 & 2, Area ‘M’ Plantation Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara.

Donations made to the Cheshire Home at Mahaica, Hope Children’s Home, Lusignan Learning Centre — Home for Abused Children, the St John’s Boscoe Orphanage, Bless The Children’s Home Orphanage, Mahaica Children’s Home, Uncle Eddie’s Home, and the PrabhuSharan Orphanage were all part of the Grand Coastal Hotel’s continued recognition of its civic and community responsibilities.

GHC’s focus under the programme is on the most vulnerable groups and organisations catering for those aged and infirmed, young orphans and abused youths, and the differently-able.

While the Xmas programme is special to the Grand Coastal Hotel (GCH), this entity would, throughout the year, reach out to several other needy organisations. Grand Coastal Hotel quite recently voluntarily entered into an agreement with the local United Nations (UN) Office to donate 14 room nights, inclusive of meals, free of cost, as a contribution to the organisation’s Domestic Violence Programme

GCH General Manager, Kevin Daby, who shortly will be tasked with managing the entire facility, disclosed that 2015 plans include further upgrading of the facilities to attract new clientele, and a new menu would be introduced.