Local authorities must by law AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD involve adults with autism when developing local adult autism services. Mediation Plus helps At Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group adults and young people by STRONGER, MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES BY meetings, people with Asperger syndrome offering a confidential, impartial Dfuse Citizens Training gives can speak openly about their concerns and and independent mediation people the skills to deal with help influence the services offered by the conflict, confrontation, aggression OUR ADDRESSING DISADVANTAGE AND DEPRIVATION Immigration service. A grant from our Marit detainees are local authority. A grant from our William and Hans Rausing Fund helped and antisocial behaviour wherever THROUGH OUR GRANT-MAKING. WE BELIEVE THAT among the most Reed Fund helped towards the group’s to pay for ‘Mediation Skills for they encounter it: in the street, in disadvantaged groups in core costs. Life’ workshops for adults across the workplace, in the school, or in LONGTERM CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN the country. Many are young, Wealden to provide them with new their own community. A grant from vulnerable and a long way from home. skills and understanding they can our Glenn and Phyllida Earle Fund THANKS Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group supports take away and use, and a further will help fund the training of local A COMMUNITY AND WE PROVIDE GRANTS asylum seekers and other migrants detained at workshop for young people. people to defuse community conflict detention centres at Gatwick Airport. A grant and antisocial behaviour. Funds Noel Bennett Fund TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY AND The from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund Older & Bolder Fund Sunbeam helped to pay for detainee welfare, Aisbitt Family Fund Open Door Fund VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS TO Swimming Club offers including phone cards. American Express Fund Pargiter Trust Fund weekly sessions to Amy Hart Fund Peel Family Fund ACHIEVE THIS. people with learning Arthur & Doreen Green Fund Pegasus Fund and/or physical Arthur & Rosemary Kay Fund Pro Bono Fund disabilities to swim Arun Cat Fund Rainbow Fund socially or competitively Shine for Life offers equine Blagrave Trust Fund Rooney Foundation Fund assisted psychotherapy and This map shows just some together in Horsham. A Boltini Fund Rye Fund learning to a wide range of clients, grant from our William Brenda Ford Fund ESCC Seedcorn Fund who interact with the horses in Reed Fund helped to Brighton & Hove Arts Fund Southern Water Community Gardens Fund of the places where we have structured sessions. pay for the hire of an A grant from Brighton & Hove Community Health Fund Surviving Winter Fund matched what our communities extra lane at the our Cullum Family Fund paid for Brighton & Hove Grassroots Fund Sussex Police Community Cashback Fund pool. Crawley subsidised sessions to local clients Carpenter Box Fund West Sussex Grassroots Fund with no or on low incomes. Over 900,000 people Comic Relief Fund West Sussex High Sheriff’s Fund say they need with the funds in the UK relied on a food Community First Endowment Fund Westdene Fund bank at some point last year, Cragwood Fund Westoute Fund to meet those needs. often in places you wouldn’t expect Cullum Family Trust Fund William Alexander Fund William Reed Fund needed one. Lewes Food Bank received a Dame Elizabeth Nash Fund Worthing & Adur Fund The more deprived an area (across a number grant from our Lewes Fund to help replenish David and Karen Allam Fund Dexam Fund of indicators), the darker it is shaded on this ongoing food supplies and basic essentials, East Sussex Grassroots Fund map. More on the deprivation indicators can such as toiletries. It supplies people with Other supporters include three days’ worth of emergency supplies, East Sussex High Sheriff’s Fund be found in our report Sussex Uncovered at Mid when referred by a GP, advice agency Fangorn Fund Albert Van den Bergh Charitable Trust www.sussexgiving.org.uk or JobCentre. Field Family Fund Ardington Hotel en Fleming Family Fund Bear Patrol Sussex d Gatwick Diamond Business Challenge Fund Brighton & Hove City Council l Glenn and Phyllida Earle Fund Brighton Pride CIC a Gurney Charitable Trust Fund East Sussex County Council e Hastings Proactive Grant Project East Sussex Women of the Year 2013 W High Weald Fund Legends Horsham Lewes & District Flood & Disaster Relief Miller Parris Fund Mazars Lewes Fund Office for Civil Society Leyden House Fund Quilter Cheviot EAST Lisbet Rausing Fund The Ian Askew Charitable Trust WEST SUSSEX Little Cheyne Court Wind Farm Fund Thomas Eggar Rother Localgiving.com UK Community Foundations SUSSEX Margaret Greenhough Fund West Sussex County Council Marit and Hans Rausing Fund Worthing & Adur Chamber of Commerce Meads Fund Millicent Mather Fund and many individual donors. Nick and Gill Wills Fund g Lewes in Chichester h t Hastings r BEXHILL o Adur Arun PORTSLADE W HOVE BRIGHTON e ourn OUR LITTLEHAMPTON BRIGHTON Eastb St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides skilled and & HOVE compassionate care for patients with complex needs as they near the end of their lives. Nurses are involved in PEOPLE many aspects of this care from providing Over 40,000 relief of symptoms to simply listening and Founder and Presidents households in empathising with the patient’s – and their The Seaview Project works with people Research shows that West Sussex are in family’s – fears. A grant from our Lisbet who feel they are living on the edge of Our Founder loneliness is highest among Gladrags Community fuel poverty. Arun & Rausing Fund contributed towards society and who believe that there is little The Duke of Richmond and Gordon women over 75, living on their Costume Resource Chichester CAB received the cost of providing a nurse for hope for their future. A grant from our Marit own. “I was a real computer- comprises over 5,000 grants from our Surviving six weeks. and Hans Rausing Fund paid for additional Joint Presidents Since City Angels began phobe,” says 80-year-old Ruth costumes and other items Winter Fund to distribute to intensive support to local people who are Susan Pyper, Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex providing a ‘calming presence’ Colbourne, who attends weekly and brings the magic of people in their area struggling rough sleeping, homeless, or placed Peter Field, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex to the streets of Chichester on a Getting on with IT sessions. “Now I costumes to the community. to meet their fuel bills and in crisis accommodation. Friday and alternate Saturday do email, I’ve compared flight costs and A grant from our Marit and having to choose whether to nights, local police tell them shared pictures with family.” A grant Hans Rausing Fund supported ‘heat or eat’. Trustees Staff that ‘violent acts on a person’ from our West Sussex Grassroots workshops for children. figures have dropped by Fund paid for the course tutor. David Allam, Chairman Grants Administrator Adrian Barrott 82%. A grant from our Marit Hove Lunch Club provides a Elizabeth Bennett DL Programmes Manager Mary Carruthers and Hans Rausing Fund healthy and hot three-course meal Consuelo Brooke Communications Manager Miranda Kemp will enable City Angels to for isolated older people, once a week. Maggie Burgess Resources Manager Rex Mankelow increase its service in “We offer weekly social contact, the Loneliness doesn’t just affect Charles Drayson Development Manager Janet Ormerod the city. opportunity to play games and to listen women. Men in Sheds meetings Jonica Fox Chief Executive Kevin Richmond Music of our Time brings to guest speakers,” says organiser are held in a large version of a Kathy Gore DL garden shed. Members pursue together local musicians Neil Hart DL Caroline Henderson. A grant from our Brighton Our advisers practical interests, mainly making with professional performers Keith Hollis Pargiter Trust Fund went towards & Hove has a variety of items from reclaimed for contemporary classical music Trevor James Registered auditors Knill James LLP transport costs for members and the highest rate of wood. They share skills and learn events. A grant from our Brighton & Steve Manwaring for a paid worker. children with special Investment managers informally, in a companionable Hove Arts Fund supported the Sounds of Michael Martin needs in Sussex. However, Sarasin & Partners LLP environment. War-Instruments of Peace 1914-2014 Richard Pearson A grant from our it’s often down to parents to develop the CCLA Investment Management West Sussex Grassroots Fund concerts to commemorate the First John Peel OBE services they need. Brighton Pebbles is one Solicitors Thomas Eggar LLP paid for essential materials. World War centenary and the 70th Humphrey Price such parent-led support group. A grant from Perhaps surprisingly, Petworth is anniversary of D-Day. Mike Simpkin OBE our Cullum Family, Rooney Foundation an area of rural deprivation and has Pamela Stiles and Noel Bennett Funds supported limited social opportunities, other than their work, reducing the isolation the pub or church. Petworth Community experienced by many families. Garden received a grant from our Comic Relief Brighton City Table Tennis The Secret Garden Group is Commission Charity the by endorsed standards to Foundations Community UK by accredited Quality / England in Registered / 5670692 No guarantee by limited company A / 1113226 No charity Registered Large Grant Fund to offer ‘Learn and Grow’ Exploring Senses delivers Club provides role models to turning a hidden area of a local community gardening sessions to local a range of innovative and support the personal development church’s grounds into an allotment people, including those at risk of creative events to engage children Contact us of young people, to instill lifelong and garden for the whole community to food poverty, and people with and young people, helping them learn love of table tennis and to build enjoy. A grant from our Southern Water learning or other disabilities, new skills and perhaps build a future Sussex Community Foundation a strong community. A grant Fund helped pay for the development To read more about the in its wheelchair for themselves in the city’s thriving from our William Alexander Fund of the pond, some wooden sleepers 15 Western Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1RL accessible garden. digital sector. A grant from our Marit helped to purchase three new and Hans Rausing Fund helped to offer to build raised beds with disabled 01273 409440 table tennis tables, allowing the CommuniToy, Robot Relays, and access and to develop metre-wide people and groups we fund, Club to expand its membership Codes For Kids activities across paths, also to enable disabled email: [email protected] and the length of its sessions. Brighton & Hove. access. visit www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Call us on 01273 409440 Twitter@SussexGiving Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
JULY SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731 Sussex Community Foundation raises funds for and makes grants to local charities and community groups across East and West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. WE’VE RAISED £18m ANNUAL VISIT OUR WEBSITE TO SUPPORT SUSSEX COMMUNITIES WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK SINCE 2006
We manage funds of money on behalf of Sussex donors, connecting them to the communities that they want to support. We’ve given grants in partnership REVIEW with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities Sussex Community Foundation and community groups. 15 Western Road Lewes We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, East Sussex that will benefit our county for generations to come. BN7 1RL 2014 01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
Registered charity No 1113226 / A company limited by guarantee No 5670692 / Registered in England Quality accredited by UK Community Foundations to standards endorsed by the Charity Commission Cover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.com Design www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’VE The Community First WHAT WE’RE Endowment Challenge continues until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available BEEN DOING… money as possible for Sussex. DOING NEXT… If you want to know more, please email me at Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other [email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. 67% words, how many of them were there and what were they like? We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible OF CHILDREN ARE grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to GROWING UP IN POVERTY We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers lie the real people and their stories – keen to support smaller community maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do IN PARTS OF HASTINGS this year: £7.5 million in grants given, the qualitative data, if you will, that let organisations, particularly in Brighton £9 million raised for our endowment us measure the positive impact of our & Hove, and to support children in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what OUR DONORS HAVE fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to work. What makes Sussex Community with disabilities and their families, local communities say they need. from a community development worker. over 1,500 charities and communities… Foundation unique for donors is our respectively. We were happy to bring ALREADY PLEDGED The whole project will cost £60,000 all since our launch in 2006. relationships with the community groups them together. We have completed an initial review a named fund with us. This will help per year over three years and a number we fund. By listening to those charities of our grant-making and its purpose. ensure that their charitable giving is £30,000 of our donors have already enabled A milestone figure for us this year was and groups, we have developed a real By listening and working with our Building on the findings of our Sussex helping meet the needs of communities us to commit £30,000 each year for our first£1 million donation. From understanding of what’s happening on donors, we can help them maximise Uncovered report, launched last autumn, they wish to support and address issues TOWARDS THE PROJECT three years to the project which will be an anonymous Sussex donor, the ground in Sussex and what those their philanthropic giving and help them and our consultations with partners they particularly want to help tackle. matched by the Big Lottery. this was matched by half groups tell us they need. deliver the community benefits they across Sussex, we are developing a through the Government’s want their money to achieve, aligned ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings We want to use the North East Hastings Community First One of those groups is Brighton with what those communities tell us This means we will continue with our is the most deprived district in the South The Big Local project that we are project as a pilot for our developing Endowment Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group they need. We are delighted that we responsive grant-making programmes, East of England and that, in its Baird supporting will help four important proactive grant-making in partnership Challenge and, with for children with disabilities and their are now the natural choice for Sussex where we award small grants to and Tressell wards, 67% of children are community centres in North East with a local community and to develop Gift Aid added, families. The group actively welcomes donors who want to develop their local small community groups, alongside growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot Hastings become sustainable. The something we can roll out in other areas our biggest single families whose children have great philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what the development of a larger grants of time in Hastings this year, meeting project will provide training and support of Sussex. donation grew difficulty accessing mainstream we’ve been working towards since 2006. programme. In addition, we want to various people and organisations, and for the trustees of the community immediately to activities because of their autism establish a programme of proactive have started to work in partnership with centres, help them to develop business So, as we move forward, we are £1.75 million. and challenging behaviour. A grant You can read more on the opposite page grant-making that reflects our core belief the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded plans, and work together on a joint building on our strengths to support local from our Cullum Family and Rooney about our plans to delve deeper and work that long-term solutions to disadvantage initiative that will see 150 areas around strategy between the centres. They will people to make the positive changes All very Foundation funds has enabled the more closely in North East Hastings to have to come from within the community. England use at least a £1million ‘to recruit apprentice managers from within in their communities that they want to impressive but group to rent office space and develop really help the people there tackle their In addition, we plan to develop a grant- make a massive and lasting difference to the community, with training provided make. We hope you will come with us on behind the figures workshops for families. Our donors were own issues in the way they think is best. giving strategy for each donor who holds their communities’. by Sussex Coast College and support that journey.
TIMELINE 2013-14 BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE WE START TO BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT DEVELOP THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX KEY ACHIEVEMENTS NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS WE HOST WINEMAKER LAUNCH OF OUR FIRST OVER LONGER £185,000 FOUR SEMINARS JONICA FOX JOINS OUR SURVIVING WINTER PERIODS GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS FOR SUSSEX TRUSTEE BOARD 2013 WHICH RAISES £1 MILLION OF TIME TO GROUPS SUCH PROFESSIONAL DONATION! GIFT AID AND £158,267 AS ASPERGER’S VOICE ADVISORS ABOUT £30,000 COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS INHERITANCE TAX SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN IN CRAWLEY FOR PEOPLE IN FUNDING TURNED IT INTO TO GROUPS SUCH AS US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO WE MOVE TO SUSSEX LIVING IN SUNBEAM SWIMMING CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, OUR NEW OFFICES! FUEL POVERTY £1.75 MILLION CLUB IN HORSHAM PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS FOR SUSSEX PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
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LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST OUR NEW WEBSITE GIVES US GOES LIVE £173,549 GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT THE MARQUESS AND £130,000 GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT MARCHIONESS OF TO SUPPORT GROUPS SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE FROM WORTHING NEEDS OF SUSSEX ABERGAVENNY HOST HELPING PEOPLE WITH A RECEPTION FOR OVER 250 GUESTS DISABILITIES US AT THEIR HOME, JOIN US TO CELEBRATE £415,445 WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD SUSSEX GIVING AT GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION ERIDGE PARK TO GROUPS SUCH AS WARNHAM PARK, HOME WINE TASTING AT BRIGHTON PEBBLES OF THE HIGH SHERIFF PLUMPTON COLLEGE OF WEST SUSSEX, WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES JONATHAN LUCAS, AND OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP HIS WIFE CAROLINE EVENTS IN HASTINGS
At the heart of our work, we connect Sussex philanthropists to the small Sussex charities and community groups that those donors want to support. This year, 17 new funds have come on board, OUR FINANCE including the Amy Hart Fund, the Betty Grubb Fund, the Cragwood Fund, the Farngorn Fund, the Fleming Family Fund, the Gurney Fund, the Leyden House Fund, the Meads Fund, the Nick & Gill Wills Fund and the Westoute Fund. Thank you to all our current and new donors from the thousands of people across Sussex that you are supporting. This summary is extracted from the Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014 Balance sheet at 31 March 2014 financial statements approved by the Unrestricted Restricted Endowment Total Total Board of Sussex Community Foundation funds funds funds 2014 2013 £1 on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a Total incoming resources 323,521 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,539,172 2,936,161 FOR EVERY 2014 2013 £ £ more complete understanding of our Resources expended Fixed assets £1 INVESTED IN Costs of generating donations and legacies 63,328 0 0 63,328 58,086 financial affairs, copies of the full Tangible assets 164 219 Investments 8,638,766 5,840,422 Net incoming resources available 260,193 1,054,256 3,161,395 4,475,844 2,878,075 FUNDRAISING statutory accounts, the unqualified 8,638,930 5,840,641 Charitable activities auditors’ report and the trustees’ report Current assets WE RAISED Grants awarded 0 1,316,480 0 1,316,480 1,038,915 are available from Sussex Community Other direct charitable expenditure 256,211 95,066 74,079 425,356 337,716 Debtors 282,933 106,589 Governance costs 32,613 0 0 32,613 28,408 Cash at bank and in hand 642,113 772,429 £71 Foundation’s registered address. 925,046 879,018 Total resources expended 352,152 1,411,546 74,079 1,837,777 1,463,125 Creditors falling due within one year -63,010 -63,928 David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees Transfers between funds 0 241,267 -241,267 0 0 of Sussex Community Foundation Net current assets 862,036 815,090 Net incoming resources -28,631 -116,023 2,846,049 2,701,395 1,473,036 Net assets 9,500,966 6,655,731 Gains/losses on investments 0 0 143,840 143,840 469,180 Represented by: Endowment fund 8,858,767 5,868,878 Net movement in funds -28,631 -116,023 2,989,889 2,845,235 1,942,216 £71 Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distribution 375,020 491,043 Fund balances at 1st April 2013 295,810 491,043 5,868,878 6,655,731 4,713,515 General reserves – for core operating costs 267,179 295,810
Fund balances at 31 March 2014 267,179 375,020 8,858,767 9,500,966 6,655,731 9,500,966 6,655,731