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SUSSEX UNCOVERED 3 LOCAL NEEDS IN PERSPECTIVE 1 SUSSEX UNCOVERED 3 LOCAL NEEDS IN PERSPECTIVE www.sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org Sussex Uncovered aims to tell the story of the needs and strengths of our communities across Sussex. This is the third edition and, for the first time, the data is available at www.sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org so you can search and use the data most relevant to you. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 6 COMMUNITY COHESION AND 4 SOCIAL CAPACITY 39 METHODOLOGY 7 Summary 40 Key findings 41 HEALTH, WELL-BEING The data 42 1 AND SAFETY 9 Community response: Summary 10 Sanctuary in Chichester 46 Key findings 11 Mid Sussex Voluntary Action 47 The data 12 Statement of intent 48 Community response: Brighton & Hove Racial Harassment Forum 16 ISOLATION, DISADVANTAGE & Crawley Parkour CIC 17 5 ACCESS TO LOCAL SERVICES 49 Statement of intent 18 Summary 50 Key findings 51 THE ARTS, CULTURE The data 52 2 AND HERITAGE 19 Community response: Summary 20 Tillington Local Care 60 Key findings 21 East Grinstead Foodbank 61 The data 22 Statement of intent 62 Community response: Drawing Life 24 ENVIRONMENT AND Culture Shift 25 6 PUBLIC SPACES 63 Statement of intent 26 Summary 64 Key findings 65 SKILLS, EDUCATION The data 66 3 AND WORK 27 Community response: Summary 28 Ouse and Adur Rivers Trust 68 Key findings 29 FareShare 69 The data 30 Statement of intent 70 Community response: Market Beans CIC 36 CONCLUSIONS 71 Wealden Works 37 Statement of intent 38 INDICES OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2019 72 SOURCES AND REFERENCES 74 OUR THANKS 77 www.sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org SUSSEX UNCOVERED 3 LOCAL NEEDS IN PERSPECTIVE 3 DEPRIVATION IN SUSSEX CRAWLEY Crawley MID Horsham SUSSEX Billingshurst Haywards Heath Midhurst Petworth Pulborough Burgess Hill CHICHESTER ARUN BRIGHTON Chichester Arundel ADUR & HOVE WORTHING Shoreham- by-Sea Brighton Littlehampton Worthing & Hove Bognor Regis Selsey Overall Index of Multiple Deprivation Average (IMDA) score per lower layer super output area (LSOA) East Grinstead WEALDEN Wadhurst Crowborough Ticehurst Mayfield ROTHER Uckfield Heathfield Rye LEWES Battle Lewes HASTINGS Hailsham Bexhill Hastings Polegate St Leonards- on-Sea Pevensey Bay Newhaven Eastbourne Seaford EASTBOURNE Overall IMD score: 0-20% (most deprived) 21-40% 41-60% 61-80% 81-100% (least deprived) INTRODUCTION Welcome to the third edition of Sussex Uncovered. We hope you will find it informative and useful. Sussex Uncovered aims to tell the story of We have organised the chapters of this report the needs and strengths of our communities around six broad categories, designed to across Sussex. We started from the Indices of cover most areas of our charitable activity. Multiple Deprivation, but have researched a This is the classification we use to analyse wider dataset to give a broad picture of our our grant-making. county today. For the first time, we are making The categories are: the data available at www.sussexuncovered. communityinsight.org so you can search and use HEALTH, WELL-BEING AND SAFETY the data that is most relevant to you. In addition, ARTS, CULTURE AND HERITAGE the data on the site will be regularly updated. SKILLS, EDUCATION AND WORK We hope that this report will be read and used by anyone who wants to understand Sussex better COMMUNITY COHESION – philanthropists, individuals and companies ISOLATION, DISADVANTAGE & that care about their community, charities and community groups and local authorities. ACCESS TO LOCAL SERVICES We hope that it will provide evidence of local ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC SPACES BACK TO CONTENTS needs against which to plan your work or to In each chapter, we present the findings of our put your case for funding. We also hope that it research, highlight the key issues, and show will demonstrate the vital importance of local case examples of great local projects that are philanthropy and local communities and inspire addressing those issues. We also describe our a new generation of people to give locally. vision for the future and the kind of activity we The key finding of our research is that Sussex would like to support. is a great place to live if you can afford it, but Our local communities are facing major there is substantial inequality in all areas of life challenges and society’s response to these and many people in our county struggle to get by challenges is likely to shape the way we live for every day. generations to come. Yet, wherever there are At Sussex Community Foundation, we have challenges, people come together to address recently reviewed our strategy. Over the next them. At Sussex Community Foundation, we five years, we aim to broaden the range of our are privileged to work with many inspirational grant-making to reflect the key challenges people. Whether they are people working or and priorities of communities across Sussex. volunteering for charities and community groups We want to be a responsive and supportive or philanthropists and donors, we are united in funder, working closely alongside the groups wanting to change Sussex for the better. we support. We want to inspire our donors by demonstrating the power of local philanthropy and help them to make the greatest possible impact on local issues. www.sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org SUSSEX UNCOVERED 3 LOCAL NEEDS IN PERSPECTIVE 6 METHODOLOGY In this latest Sussex Uncovered report (the The IMD 2019 is based on 39 separate others were published in 2013 and 2016), indicators, organised across seven distinct we have dug deeper into a range of data and domains of deprivation which are combined and indicators to answer a series of questions about weighted to give an overall score for the relative life in Sussex. To prepare this report, we have level of multiple deprivation experienced in worked closely with the Oxford Consultants every neighbourhood in England. for Social Inclusion (OCSI), which combines The domains used are: Income; Employment; specialised research skills and an expert Education Skills and Training; Health and tech team, to provide tools and analysis to Disability; Crime; Barriers to Housing and the public sector. Services and Living Environment. Simply put, we asked OCSI a series of Top level IMD 2019 data for Sussex is on pages questions and they used their Local Insight 72-73. An explanation of how the IMD 2019 is community mapping and reporting tool to find collated and defined can be found at the most appropriate data to start to answer www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices- those questions. of-deprivation-2019 The data and indicators in this report are from a wide range of sources and the references for Geographies them are on pages 74-76. In this document, the data makes reference to The website various geographies, as follows. BACK TO CONTENTS A settlement refers to a contiguous (sharing a For the first time, all of the data that we have common border) built-up area – a city, town or used in Sussex Uncovered 2019 is available a village. For example, Lewes district contains on a purpose-built open source data website: several separate settlements, including Lewes, sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org Newhaven, Peacehaven, Seaford and Kingston. There, you can search for the data relevant down A neighbourhood is included in the settlement to Sussex LSOA level in your area of interest, provided it is ‘joined on’ to that settlement – i.e. across all the indicators we have used and more. there is no open space/countryside separating Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019 that neighbourhood from other neighbourhoods in the settlement. Importantly, this report once again includes The settlement geography is useful for the Government’s Indices of Multiple understanding the socio-economic conditions Deprivation (IMD) figures, which were in real places where people live, rather than updated in September 2019. We use this data, government geographies that are lines on a map as do many others, because it is nationally which cut through communities. available, consistent and comparable at various geographical levels. It is the official measure To make things more complicated, the government of relative deprivation in England and broadly has two definitions of a settlement. The first defines deprivation to encompass a wide range includes all neighbourhoods that are joined of an individual’s living conditions. together, as part of the whole settlement, if www.sussexuncovered.communityinsight.org SUSSEX UNCOVERED 3 LOCAL NEEDS IN PERSPECTIVE 7 The English Indices of Deprivation The English Indices of Deprivation 2019 (IoD2019) 2019 (IoD2019) TheTheThe EnglishThe TheIndices English English Englishrelatively Indices rankIndices Indices Indiceseach of small Deprivationof area of ofDeprivation in DeprivationEnglandDeprivation from most deprived to least deprived The Indices relatively rank each small area in England from most deprived to least deprived 2019 (IoD2019) th 20192019 2019(IoD2019)1st (IoD2019) (IoD2019) 32,844 The English Indices of Deprivationth 1st The English Indices of Deprivation32,844 least TheThe Indices English relatively rankmost Indices each small areaof inDeprivation England from most deprived to least deprived The IndicesThe TheIndices relativelyThe Indices relatively English rankrelatively each rank rank smalleach Indices each smallarea small in area England area in of England in fromDeprivation England mostfrom from deprivedmost most deprived todeprived least to deprivedleast to least deprivedleast deprived most deprived2019 There(IoD2019) are 32,844 small areas (Lower-layer