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Sussex Community Foundation supports local charities and community groups across East
Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. From the funds we manage on behalf of Sussex
donors, we award grants to a wide range of local charities, many of them smaller com-
munity groups where a modest grant can go a long way.
Call us on 01273 409440, email [email protected] or write to us at Falcon Wharf,
Railway Lane, Lewes BN7 2AQ. And keep in touch at Facebook and on Twitter.
Grants
American Express Fund
Carousel £1,822
Whitehawk Inn £4,000
Sussex Nightstop Plus £4,000
MindOut £1,980
AMAZE £4,000
Brighton Women's Centre £4,000
New Writing South £2,050
Brenda Ford Fund
Homeopathy in the Sussex Community £700
Survivors Network Ltd £5,000
Brighton Women's Centre £830
Life Centre £5,000
Brighton & Hove Grassroots Fund
South Downs Woodturners £2,500
Trailer Trashed £750
Cullum Family Trust Fund
Centre for Self Managed Learning £1,000
Sussex Nightstop Plus £2,000
AMAZE £1,000
ABC Animal Sanctuary £1,000
Shine for Life £1,000
East Sussex Grassroots Fund
Hastings Predators Floorball Club £1,000
Hastings Chinese Association £1,000
Friends of Downlands £1,284
Downs 60 Plus Club £500
Artemis Arts Ltd £1,500
London House Open Door £1,000
Lisbet Rausing Hospice Fund
St. Michael's Hospice £4,206
Marit And Hans Rausing Fund
B&H Unwaged, Advice & Rights £1,500
Trailer Trashed £1,750
HARC £3,500
Fellowship of St Nicholas £2,500
Downs 60 Plus Club £1,500
Lewes and Seaford CAB £3,500
Home Start Arun £3,500
Headway in West Sussex £2,000
Scope West Sussex £1,000
Central and South Sussex CAB £3,500
East Sussex Hearing Resource Centre £3,500
Rainbow Fund
Lunch Positive £1,000
MindOut £1,000
LGBT Community Safety Forum £3,800
Peer Action £500
Rooney Foundation Fund
B&H Parents and Children Group £2,500
FTM Brighton £850
Dravet Syndrome UK £3,148
GIZMO the DIY Theatre Company £4,680
Seaford Down's Syndrome
& Special Needs Support £3,762
Disability Awareness UK £2,630
Phoenix Drop-in £5,000
Southern Water Community Gardens Fund
Transition Horsham (Allotment Group) £666
Spencer Wills Trust Fund
High Weald Landscape Trust £3,500
West Sussex Grassroots Fund
Noise project £1,435
Petworth Community Garden £1,448
Chichester and Wittering Phab Club £1,434
The Yews Community Partnership £3,000
William Reed Fund
Tuesday Club £2,500
CAMEO Club £500
Age UK Horsham £2,000
Pegasus Fund
Portslade Aldridge Community Academy £4,500
We gave grants totalling over £126,000 to 51 charities and community groups in our summer grants round.
Our next two deadlines for grant applications are 11 October 2013 and 10 January 2014.
Autumn 2013
Autumn is a lovely time of year in Sussex and the changing seasons
are a reminder how lucky we are to live in such a beautiful county.
But some of the factors that
make the county so special –
the pretty rural hamlets and
the bracing seaside towns –
can also be the things that
make it a difficult place to live
for many people, especially
those living on low incomes
in isolated areas. We recently
commissioned a report, Sussex
Uncovered, to evaluate the strengths and needs of our communi-
ties to help us understand more about the county that we serve
and to help inform our future grant-giving.
Some of the results were surprising. Parts of Sussex are in the top
5% most deprived in the UK. In one ward in Hastings, 67% of children
are living in poverty and Sussex has the highest levels of homeless-
ness in the South East. What came
out strongly from the report though
is that not all deprived people live
in deprived areas.
There are significant pockets of
deprivation in towns such as Rye
and Petworth which might on first
glance appear to be areas of
some affluence. We’d like to hear
the views of our supporters and so
will be discussing the report further
at our annual public meeting on
14 November in Lewes. Please do
put the date in your diary and we
hope to see you then.
Thank you. Kevin Richmond,
Chief Executive
New trustee We are pleased to welcome
Jonica Fox to the Board of
Sussex Community Foundation.
Jonica was, until recently,
Chairman of Wealden District
Council, having been a coun-
cillor since 1999. She had a
successful commercial career
in national newspapers and
advertising before setting up
two family-owned vineyards
in East Sussex, producing rosé
sparkling wine. She has also
been very active in the volun-
tary sector and is a member
of National Trust Council.
“I believe that small charities
and voluntary groups are
vitally important, especially in
rural areas where they play a
crucial role in building a strong
community and helping those
in need,” says Jonica. “I am
passionate about helping
these groups so I feel Sussex
Community Foundation is a
great way to make a differ-
ence to my community.”
Public meeting
Our annual public meeting will be on Thursday 14 November
(3.30-7pm) at Pelham House Hotel in Lewes. To book your place,
email [email protected] or call 01273 409440.
It’s not often one of our funds gets a boost from a world-
famous rock band but that’s what happened when
Mumford & Sons came to our home town of Lewes in July.
Our bucket-collectors were out in force when the Grammy
award-winning band played a charity football match to
raise funds for our Lewes Fund, before playing their only UK
Gentlemen of the Road gig this year.
Mumford & Sons
Based in Eastbourne, the East
Sussex Hearing Resource (ESHR)
provides volunteer-led outreach
support to hearing-impaired
people living in East Sussex.
The group reaches about 9,500
deaf, deafened, hard-of-hearing
and deafblind people on a reg-
ular basis, most of whom are old-
er people. “Most of our users are
in the large coastal towns, such
as Hastings and Eastbourne, but
the people with the greatest
need are those in rural areas,”
says John Leonard of ESHR. “We
tend to meet retired agricultural
workers on low pensions, poorly
educated and, because of us-
ing farm machinery, are deaf
and/or physically disabled.
They lack information and
access to generally available
services. Lack of public transport
compounds their disadvantage.”
“Our Outreach Bus is converted
to a classroom for sign language
and lip-reading classes, hearing
tests, advice and information.
It is acclaimed by many as ‘a
godsend’.” The group received
£3,500 from the Marit and Hans
Rausing Fund in our summer
round of grant-giving to pilot
an ear maintenance project for
older people. You can hear
more from ESHR about their work
and the outreach bus on a film
which will appear on our new
website which will launch later
in the autumn.
Grow more tenners Last year’s Localgiving.com
Grow Your Tenner campaign
raised over £50,000 for Sussex
charities and community
groups.
The campaign returns this
autumn and there’s another
£500,000 of match-funding
that’s been made available
through the Office for Civil
Society. Grow Your Tenner
2013 kicks off at 10am on
Tuesday, October 15.
Localgiving.com will double
all donations up to £10, so a
tenner becomes £20, or £22.50
with Gift Aid. For monthly
donations, they will double up
to £10 a month for six months.
There are over 200 Sussex char-
ities and community groups
live on the fundraising site so
visit www.localgiving.com/
sussex and choose which one
(or more) you’d like to support.
Real lives
Last winter many people facing fuel poverty in Sussex made a stark choice
between heating and eating. In 2012, our Surviving Winter campaign raised
over £100,000 to help them. To donate to this year’s campaign, send us a
cheque marked ‘SW2013’, payable to Sussex Community Foundation, and
we’ll make sure it reaches people who need it to help stay warm this winter. Thank you.
Maximising the benefits of giving
Sussex Community Foundation is partnering with Thomas Eggar
LLP Solicitors to deliver free accredited seminars for professional
advisors on tax-effective giving. These will take place at four
locations across Sussex in October and November.
A Philanthropy Fellowship South East event in July focused on homelessness in the south
east at Crawley Open House and was an opportunity for Sussex philanthropists to see the
work of an inspiring charity. For more about the Philanthropy Fellowship, visit
www.philanthropyfellowship.org.uk/southeast
At each seminar, two solicitors from Thomas
Eggar will talk through the opportunities
arising from the new 36% inheritance tax rate
(IHT), applicable when at least 10% of the
estate is given to charity. They will outline
key features of the lower IHT rate, how it
works and how it can be used by clients,
both planning for their own estates and
looking back following an inheritance.
Our Development Manager Janet Ormerod
will give an overview of how our named funds
provide a simple and flexible mechanism for
charitable giving, in particular for leaving
a legacy to Sussex. Sponsorship for all four
seminars has been kindly provided by Thesis
Asset Management plc. For more information,
or to attend, please email
We have recently received a generous
donation of £130,000 from Leyden House
Trust. The donation will be
used to set up a named
fund at the Foundation,
with grants used to support
charities and community
groups across Sussex helping
people with disabilities.
Dr Michael Strode set up the
Leyden House Trust in 1970
to provide a holiday home
for children from Chailey
Heritage School who had
no permanent home of
their own and who there-
fore had to remain at
Chailey in school holidays.
In later years, Leyden House
also accepted residents from a wider age
group. However, due to falling occupancy
rates and increasing repair and maintenance
costs, eventually it was decided to wind up
the Trust, and distribute the proceeds to a
number of local charities with
similar aims.
Distribution of the awards was
made at a special ceremony
in September hosted by
Chailey Heritage Foundation,
one of the six recipients of
funds from the Trust.
Stephen Barnett, Chair of
Leyden House Trust, presided
and the original founder, Dr
Strode, also attended.
“We are delighted to be the
recipient of such a substantial
donation from Leyden House
Trust, and look forward to
establishing a fund which will perpetuate
the original aims of the trust,” said Kevin
Richmond, our Chief Executive.
New fund
Brighton-based Amaze offers
information, advice and support to
parents of children with special
needs and disabilities