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 info@sussexgiving.org.uk 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 info@sussexgiving.org.uk 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

janet.ormerod@sussexgiving.org.uk

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