Sussex Charities Fair 2018 brochure by Sussex Community Foundation

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Welcome We are delighted to welcome you to the first Sussex Charities Fair. In 2016, the estimated income of the UK voluntary sector was £47.8 billion. Voluntary organisations with an annual income of over £1 million account for 81% of the sector’s total income yet make up only 3% of the total number of charities. Organisations with an income of £100,000 or less make up 82% of the sector (in terms of the number of charities), but account for less than 5% of the total income. Funding small charities and community groups is Sussex Community Foundation’s speciality and 271 of the grants we gave last year were to groups whose annual income was less that £100,000. Those figures lay behind the idea of today. There are around 10,000 small charities and community groups in Sussex, many of these fall below the radar of local people who wish to give locally. Today, you will meet a range of smaller charities and community groups that work across Chichester district and West Sussex, supporting their communities in many different ways. They are a small but powerful representation of the 430 groups we support across Sussex each year. There will also be opportunities throughout the day to hear from nationallyrecognised charity speakers (see page 6 for a full line-up) who will share with you their experience and knowledge on charitable giving, governance and the importance of small charities – subjects at the heart of our work and hugely important in the charity sector today. We thank our speakers for their contribution to the success of this inaugural Sussex Charities Fair. We hope you will find the day stimulating and inspiring and that you will feel motivated to consider supporting your community through Sussex Community Foundation. Please don’t hesitate to contact us if you would like to know more about how we can help you start or develop your community philanthropy. We hope you enjoy the day. ANTHONY BOLTON THE BOLTINI FUND AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

KEVIN RICHMOND CHIEF EXECUTIVE SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

About... Sussex Community Foundation We raise funds for and make grants to charities and community groups across East Sussex, West Sussex and Brighton & Hove. We bring people who want to maximise their local giving together with the people and causes they care about. In a typical year, we give around £2 million in grants. The average grant is £3,000 and we support hundreds of charities and community groups in Sussex. However, we never have enough funds to meet all the good-quality grant applications we receive.

THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX Sussex can appear an affluent place but scratch below the surface and some major challenges for our people and communities emerge. There are wards in the county where two-thirds of children are growing up in poverty Many deprived areas are in our coastal towns, but there are significant pockets of deprivation in rural areas that are perceived to be wealthy Sussex has among the highest proportion of older people in the country

GRANT-MAKING

The aim of today is to give guests the opportunity to hear more

We make grants to address needs across a wide range of beneficiaries and issues – from health and the environment to employment and social isolation. We fund projects, services and core costs, helping charities and community groups to build their sustainability.

about the work of Sussex Community Foundation and from some of

FUND DEVELOPMENT

One of the main options we offer donors is a named fund, a ring-fenced sum held by us on the donor’s behalf and used to make grants to charities and community groups in Sussex.

through its grant-making.

Refreshments

We have 28 charities and community groups exhibiting today, keen to tell you about their work and the needs of the communities they serve.

Teas and coffees will be served throughout the day.

We act as a guardian to our donated funds, ensuring they are invested wisely and safely.

Please do visit the Local Insight stand (no 1) where you will have access to the latest up-to-date data on the lives of people in Sussex.

Lunch will be served between 1pm and 2pm from the Supper Room.

DONOR SERVICES

Speakers

STEWARDSHIP

We provide a flexible and cost-effective service to our donors and ensure that a comprehensive assessment is carried out on the groups we fund. In addition, we ensure that the grants we make are monitored and evaluated for impact and effectiveness.

We bring together various community players – local authorities, private companies and voluntary sector organisations – to inspire debate and positive action. Sussex Community Foundation is part of a UK-wide network of 46 community foundations.

It is a rewarding, impactful and efficient way to give, without the donor bearing the cost and administration of setting up their own charity or trust. We provide personal support to ensure our donors’ giving is effective and matches their charitable interests with local needs. Options vary depending on the size of gift and whether a donor wishes to be involved in making decisions about individual grants. There are two main options, a flow-through fund or an invested endowment fund. We can also combine the two in a bespoke combination fund.

the Sussex charities and community groups that the charity funds

Exhibitors

We attract financial resources, often new money from new donors, previously unavailable to the community. Our primary aim is to build an endowment for Sussex that will sustain a thriving community in the long-term.

LEADERSHIP NAMED OR DONOR-ADVISED FUNDS

Today at a glance

There are three Q&A speaker sessions, repeated in the afternoon, on key issues and opportunities facing charities, both here in Sussex and nationally. In addition, you will hear more about the community foundation network and why Sussex Community Foundation is such a good option for those wishing to give locally.

One-to-one meetings You will find Sussex Community Foundation trustees, ambassadors and members of staff on hand throughout the day to answer your questions. The Card Room and the Round Reception Room have been set aside for those wishing to have one-to-one conversations. Please feel free to use these rooms at any time during the day.

House-keeping We want Sussex to be a great place to live for everyone, a place where people and communities thrive and are empowered to fulfil their potential.

Event organisers McCullough Moore will be managing the event throughout the day. If you have any queries during the day, please contact Natalie Harud or Billie Moore in the first instance.

Lunch There will be a choice of: Tiger prawns and noodles Ricotta tortellini Sweet potato dahl

Access Goodwood House is fully accessible for wheelchair users and ramp access is available at the front entrance to the House. There is one accessible toilet. All rooms open to the public are situated on the ground floor and there are no stairs to negotiate. Hearing loops are available on request.

Emergency contacts Natalie Harud McCullough Moore 07766 525513 Billie Moore McCullough Moore 07973 196474

Today’s agenda MORNING TIME

EVENT

9.00am

DOORS OPEN

AFTERNOON SPEAKERS

9.30 – 10.30am

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

10.30am

WELCOME

Kevin Richmond

Community foundations: what they do and how they work; the day ahead.

Chief Executive, Sussex Community Foundation

Q&A SESSION 1

Anthony Bolton

Investing in good: Why investing in small charities can be as exciting as investing in any market and the returns are far more satisfying! How does investing in charities’ endowment funds differ from other investments?

Investment manager and composer

Q&A SESSION 2

William Shawcross

Governance: Charity ‘scandals’, such as Kids Company and The Presidents Ball, have impacted on the reputation of the charity sector as a whole - but is that fair?

ex-chair of Charity Commission, writer and journalist

10.40 – 11.20am

11.30am – 12.10pm

ROOM

Entrance & Hall Egyptian Dining Room

Academic researcher and charity professional

1.00 – 2.00pm

Size matters: It is said that the top 5% of UK charities (in terms of income) attract 85% of donations and continue to do so while smaller charities (£1million or less) are seeing theirs fall. But smaller charities play a vital role at the grassroots of our communities and need our support.

Charities Aid Foundation, Head of Charity Advisory and Programmes

Keith Hollis Chairman, Sussex Community Foundation

ROOM

2.00 – 2.10pm

WELCOME BACK

Kevin Richmond

The afternoon ahead.

Chief Executive, Sussex Community Foundation

Egyptian Dining Room

2.10 – 2.50pm

Q&A SESSION 4

Anthony Bolton

Investment manager and composer

Q&A SESSION 5

William Shawcross

Governance: Charity ‘scandals’, such as Kids Company and The Presidents Ball, have impacted on the reputation of the charity sector as a whole - but is that fair?

ex-chair of Charity Commission, writer and journalist

Egyptian Dining Room

Caroline Greenhalgh Academic researcher and charity professional Egyptian Dining Room

Alex Spofforth

Egyptian Dining Room

4.30 – 4.50pm

Q&A SESSION 6

Monica Brown

Charities Aid Foundation, Head of Charity Advisory and Programmes

CONCLUDING SESSION

Kevin Richmond

Sussex Community Foundation: The past year, the year ahead and our new strategy.

Chief Executive, Sussex Community Foundation

Chairman, Sussex Community Foundation

5.00pm

EVENT FINISH

Egyptian Dining Room

Keith Hollis

LUNCH AND NETWORKING

Please note that the seminars/speakers are repeated in the afternoon sessions

Egyptian Dining Room

Chartered account, Spofforth Partners

3.50 – 4.30pm

Alex Spofforth

Monica Brown

SPEAKERS

3.00 – 3.40pm

Caroline Greenhalgh

Q&A SESSION 3

EVENT

Egyptian Dining Room

Chartered account, Spofforth Partners

12.20 – 1.00pm

TIME

Egyptian Dining Room

Speakers INTRODUCTION

SESSIONS 1 & 4

SESSIONS 2 & 5

SESSIONS 3 & 6

Kevin Richmond

Anthony Bolton

William Shawcross

Monica Brown

Chief Executive, Sussex Community Foundation

Anthony Bolton is best known as one of the UK’s most successful fund managers. For 28 years, he ran the Fidelity Special Situations Fund, which became the largest unit trust in the UK. In addition, he is a talented composer with particular interest in vocal music. In 2010, he was commissioned to compose an anthem for Save the Children’s Anniversary service in St Paul’s Cathedral.

William Shawcross was Chairman of the Charity Commission from 2012-2018. He is a widely renowned writer and broadcaster and his articles have appeared in the Sunday Times, the Sunday Telegraph, the Washington Post and the Sydney Morning Herald. His books include Dubcek (1970), Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon and the Destruction of Cambodia (1979), The Shah’s Last Ride (1989) and Deliver Us From Evil: Warlords and Peacekeepers in a World of Endless Conflict (2001). In 1995, he wrote and presented the three-part BBC television series Monarchy and, in 2002, to tie-in with the Queen’s Golden Jubilee, he again wrote and presented a landmark four-part BBC television series, Queen and Country, a revealing and intimate portrait of the Queen, and an absorbing study of the changing face of monarchy and of Britain during the past half-century. He is author of the official biography of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. He lives in London and Cornwall.

Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), Head of Charity Advisory and Programmes

Kevin Richmond grew up in Somerset but fell in love with Sussex and Brighton, when he came to Sussex University at the age of 18. Since then, he has worked in a wide range of local and national charities. He holds an MA in Social Work from Nottingham University and a Diploma in Management from City University. He was Director of the Carers Centre for Brighton & Hove from 1999 to 2006, when he became the first Chief Executive of Sussex Community Foundation. Kevin lives in Brighton with his family and enjoys watching Brighton & Hove Albion FC, Sussex Cricket and walking on the Downs.

In 2010, he formed the Boltini Fund at Sussex Community Foundation to support charities and community groups in West Sussex that address social disadvantage and the needs of disabled people and those with chronic illness, children and young people, and projects addressing homelessness. The funds for this came from the Boltini Trust, a family charity Anthony set up ten years ago, whose trustees are his wife Sarah, their three children and their spouses, all with a variety of different interests including music, travelling and art, as well as helping deserving causes. One of the key aims of the Boltini Fund has been to support charities local to the family in West Sussex, allowing them to keep a close link with the people they choose to support.

Alex Spofforth BA, FCA Alex is a chartered accountant at Spofforth Partners Limited. He is also a trustee at The Officers’ Association, where he is the Chairman of Trustees, and at the Musicians’ Benevolent Fund (Help Musicians UK), where he is the Deputy Chair and is on the Finance &

Caroline Greenhalgh Caroline’s professional background bridges fundraising, development and policy and campaigns in the third sector. She is a founding member of Human Rights Watch’s Disability Rights Advisory Committee and serves on the London Executive of Human Rights Watch. She is also a Non-Executive Director of the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals charity, with particular responsibility for fundraising. Caroline has an MSc in Evidence Based Social Interventions and Policy Evaluation from the University of Oxford and an LLM Employment Law degree from the University of Leicester. In 2017, Caroline was awarded a scholarship to study for a PhD at the University of Birmingham’s Third Sector Research Centre, where she is conducting research examining how high net worth donors engage with philanthropy and conceptualise and measure the effectiveness of their giving.

Audit Committee. He is a trustee at the LSA Charitable Trust, a small endowed charity for horticultural workers and education. He is an advisor at The Coldstream Guards Regimental Charitable Funds, and The Coldstream Guards Association, where he has helped for more than 25 years. He is company secretary of the charity Project Hougoumont, which raised funds to restore the heritage site of Hougoumont Farm at the location of the Battle of Waterloo. The family have been active in Sussex charities and in both the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation. Alex represents the South East on the Council of ICAEW and has sat on the Ethical Standards Committee and Sustainability Committee. He acts as an advisor to charity clients on sustainable business strategies.

Monica Brown is an experienced senior charity executive with extensive experience of working in and with the voluntary sector. She leads CAF’s grant-making and consultancy advice for charities and legacy programmes. She has held a number of senior positions including assistant director for Trident Reach the People charity, where she had responsibility for leading on strategic change, growing their social investment business ethos and some aspects of service delivery. For 12 years, Monica was the National Head of England for BBC Children in Need, contributing to the strategic direction of the charity, managing a significant fundraising/grant-making portfolio across England and extensive stakeholder management. This was preceded by roles as a business analyst and senior grant manager for the Community Fund (BIG Lottery) and the head of the community development unit for South Birmingham College. She also has experience of youth training, community development and working with young offenders. In her spare time, Monica mentors young people who have been disaffected by the education system and/or life in general.

Keith Hollis Chairman, Sussex Community Foundation Keith has lived and worked within the legal world for 45 years. Shortly after qualifying as a solicitor, he established his own practice in South London. He was subsequently appointed as a judge and sat in Kent and Sussex for over twenty years, retiring as a circuit judge in 2013 to work as a mediator and judicial trainer. For many years, he has run judicial training programmes in different parts of the Commonwealth. His professional interests have chiefly been in environmental and housing law. He is married to Mariana, a landscape architect and lecturer, with two grown-up children. He enjoys hill walking and music (both singing and playing the piano and bassoon). He has been a governor of a local primary school and has chaired New Sussex Opera.

Floor plan TOILETS

REFRESHMENTS

SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION LUNCH

ORGANISERS OFFICE

FRONT HALL

RED HALL

1 EGYPTIAN DINING ROOM

SUPPER ROOM

YELLOW DRAWING ROOM ENTRANCE

BALLROOM 12

CARD ROOM

REFRESHMENTS

ROUND RECEPTION ROOM

REGISTRATION

EXHIBITOR STANDS YELLOW DRAWING ROOM

BALLROOM

Local Insight

Lavant Friendly Club

12 Yada

Selsey Community Forum

Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group

13 PACSO

21 Extratime

My Sisters’House

Sussex Sailability

Crawley Open House

Lunch Positive

Auntie Val’s Ability Centre

Voluntary Action Arun & Chichester

Dementia Support

Community Transport Sussex

Sussex Nightstop

Trust for Developing Communities

Care for Veterans

Safe in Sussex

25 Esteem

Reaching Families

Blueprint 22

St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Chichester

Age UK East Grinstead & District

Home-Start Chichester & District

5 Kangaroos 6

Asperger’s Voice

LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS

4Sight Vision Support

Exhibitors YELLOW DRAWING ROOM 1 Local Insight

4 Auntie Val’s Ability Centre

Sussex is home to 1.6 million people and Sussex Community Foundation knows a lot about them, their lives and communities. The need of those communities informs the grant-making our donors support us to do. We work closely with Brighton-based Local Insight to ensure we have the best and most-up-to-date data on Sussex. Visit our stand to find out more about the needs of your area.

Asperger’s Voice is a free self-advocacy group run by and for adults with Asperger’s in West Sussex. They provide an opportunity to meet, make friends and support each other, raise awareness of issues faced by people with Asperger’s and have a say in local policies and services. The group meet monthly in Burgess Hill to discuss a range of topics and speak with guests about issues affecting autistic people. The group also organises Understanding Autism, an annual event designed for autistic adults to find out more about what it means to be autistic and the resources available in West Sussex.

www.local.communityinsight.org

2 Selsey Community Forum Selsey Community Forum brings residents and organisations together to discern local needs and work in partnership to meet them. Bi-monthly forums bring 20 local charities, the town council and businesses together to share information and coordinate projects. This is achieved by a series of regular network meetings and project groups including a project review group, a youth network, a funding think tank, an arts forum, a Selsey to Chichester cycle route working group, a flood action group, Selsey community watch, Selsey Dementia Action Alliance and Carers Support Selsey. Our activities and projects are coordinated and run from the Selsey Care Shop.

Auntie Val’s Ability Centre is committed to developing disabled people’s potential by offering work experience, training, workplace social integration, improving literacy and numeracy and employment opportunities. All our training is provided free of charge.

www.selseyinfo.co.uk

www.auntievals.com

3 My Sisters’ House

www.aspergersvoice.org.uk

Auntie Val’s retail collections are supplied to farm shops, delicatessens, department food halls, garden centres and visitor attractions etc. Demand for Auntie Val’s catering and bespoke service is constantly growing from a tea room to some of the most exclusive five-star establishments in the world.

Kangaroos has been based in Mid Sussex since 1994 and provides a range of fun, inclusive social and leisure activities in our local community for children and young adults with learning disabilities, as well as additional physical, sensory, medical and behavioural difficulties. Disabled young people spend a much higher proportion of their time with their parents or carers, have less opportunity to socialise outside of school or college and maintain friendships in the same way that their peers would do. Kangaroos provides opportunities to address this by offering eight different age-related clubs for over 200 children and young people aged six to over 30 years.

Since opening our first drop-in in 2015, we have supported 550 women. 65% of the women supported have self-referred.

www.kangaroos.org.uk

8 Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group (GDWG) helps people in immigration detention at Gatwick Airport with emotional and practical support through weekly befriending by sixty volunteer visitors. The UK is the only country in Europe to detain people indefinitely without judicial oversight and, for people in detention, the uncertainty of incarceration, with no fixed end date, has terrible mental consequences. To raise awareness of the realities of detention, the group runs Refugee Tales that uses storytelling and the tales of those detained, for conversations with parliamentarians about the need for legislative change. The tales are shared during a long walk using the Canterbury Tales as a model and they are published by Comma Press. GDWG and Refugee Tales give talks to local schools and community groups and, when detainees are released from detention, they are offered monthly walks in Sussex with volunteers and local people with health benefits for all and aiding integration.

www.refugeetales.org

9 Sussex Sailability Sussex Sailability enables disabled people to take part in the sport of sailing. This gives disabled people the opportunity to experience water-sports, learn to sail independently and to take part in competitive sailing alongside able-bodied sailors, at a club and national level.

5 Kangaroos

Embedded in the Bognor Regis community, My Sisters’ House CIC Women’s Centre works across the coastal area (Arun & Chichester). Our beneficiaries are women and girls who have suffered violence and abuse and are deeply traumatised and go onto face multiple problems like very low self-esteem, poor mental and physical health and turning to drugs and alcohol as coping mechanisms. We have a unique reach within our community and fill essential gaps in statutory provision. As the ‘net beneath the net,’ we meet the needs of marginalised women and provide them with a voice. We are presently supporting a high number of women who have totally disengaged with statutory provision.

www.mysistershouse.info

6 Asperger’s Voice

7 Lavant Friendly Club The Lavant Friendly Club is a social club for men and women over 60 who reside or have resided in the rural village of Lavant in Chichester district. Members meet on the first Wednesday of each month in the village hall for a range of activities, games, entertainment, live singers and music. Many members are in the lower income bracket and funding is used to subsidize activities so that no one will be denied the chance to take part in our activities because they can’t afford it.

Sussex Sailability has 15 boats suitable for people with disabilities to helm and to crew. These range from singlehanders to 23 ft racing keelboats. Sussex Sailability is a 100% volunteer organisation. Our volunteers drive safety boats, help maintain, rig, launch, wash and put away the dinghies, as well as helping with coaching and sailing, on and off the water.

www.sussexsailability.org.uk

Exhibitors BALLROOM 10 Voluntary Action Arun & Chichester Voluntary Action Arun & Chichester (VAAC) works across the Arun & Chichester districts to build capacity and enhance third sector organisations by providing them with the necessary support, information and services to enable them to start, develop and grow, contributing to their communities to the best of their ability. This includes help with issues relating to governance, fundraising, policies and procedures. We promote volunteer opportunities and volunteering and to support organisations in developing their volunteering offer. In addition, we promote, collaborate, organise and facilitate co-operation and partnership working between voluntary, statutory and other relevant bodies for the benefit of these communities. We aim to build confidence, skills and capacity which allow communities to find their own voices.

www.vaac.org.uk

11 Sussex Nightstop Sussex Nightstop is a community response to homelessness. We unlock latent capacity within the local community: people and property. There is so much spare accommodation and so much will to help. Nightstop provides a vehicle to bring those things together with people who need it. The concept is very simple: engage local volunteers who have a spare bedroom and a desire to help, provide basic training and then match them with a person who needs emergency accommodation. Sussex Nightstop provides safety for people who are vulnerable right now. Our aim is that nobody is forced to sleep rough and put themselves at risk. The risks associated with homelessness are significant and include sexual exploitation, drug use, coercion into criminal activity and radicalism. By finding them safe, emergency accommodation straight away, Nightstop prevents people from having to face these risks in the first place.

www.sussexnightstop.org.uk

12 Yada Yada is a charity that offers support services to women in the sex industry in areas of Sussex. Our vision is to see a world with no place for sexual exploitation, where women live empowered lives in connection and community. Yada’s meaning ‘to be known’ motivates us to create a culture of support and acceptance for each woman, living a life free from abuse and stigma. Our support service, The Esther Project, aims to increase safety and well-being, and reduce isolation. We offer visits to self-identifying women in the sex industry in Worthing. We offer listening and emotional and practical support, tailor-made safety information and signposting to other specialist services such as sexual health.

www.yadasussex.org

13 PACSO PACSO (parents and carers support organisation) is a local charity operating in Chichester and Arun districts. We offer recreational opportunities to disabled children and their ablebodied siblings which, in turn, provides much-needed short -term breaks to them and their families. We offer a range of respite activities and fun events for the whole family to enjoy. Our flagship event is our annual summer play scheme, as well as daily after-school clubs. We support families with children with all disabilities, with or without a diagnosis, from age 0-25 years. PACSO has grown enormously since its humble beginnings in 1999.

www.pacso.org.uk

14 Crawley Open House Crawley Open House has served the homeless of Crawley and the surrounding areas since 1994. Today, we operate a 24-bed hostel, busy day centre, open 365 days a year, three move-on houses and a community outreach team. We believe that dealing effectively with the homeless is far more than offering refuge, important as that is. We work intensively with those who find themselves homeless, in partnership with many other agencies, to rehabilitate and resettle them wherever possible. We manage to move on nearly two thirds of our hostel residents to somewhere more permanent and appropriate. We are an independent charity, supported by West Sussex County Council, Crawley Borough Council and the housing benefit system. We still need to find around £250,000 a year from our own fundraising efforts to keep doing what we do to alleviate the effects of homelessness in Sussex.

www.crawleyopenhouse.co.uk

15 Dementia Support Dementia Support is a young, unique, West Sussex charity that provides complete dementia services under one roof in their new facility – Sage House. Based in Tangmere, near Chichester, the dementia facilities and services are available for people living with dementia, and their family and carers in the West Sussex area. Sage House is open to anyone with a concern about dementia and memory loss in the West Sussex area. Dementia Support works in partnership with voluntary and charitable organisations, the NHS, West Sussex County Council and other statutory organisations, to create a unique community hub for dementia, designed to truly enhance the wellbeing and quality of life for local people living with dementia, their family and carers.

www.dementia-support.org.uk

16 Trust for Developing Communities Trust for Developing Communities (TDC) works with people living in the least affluent parts of Brighton & Hove. We provide support to people facing challenges such as poverty, isolation and social exclusion and help them to address their specific needs and problems. We assist groups with training, funding applications, and access to services, so that people in our communities are empowered to improve their own lives and take control of their future. TDC helps build strong, healthy, self-sufficient communities and, over time, we aim to reduce the growth and cost of social problems that affect the whole city. We help others to help themselves. By supporting TDC, you can help us create a resilient, more integrated and equitable city.

www.trustdevcom.org.uk

17 Safe in Sussex Safe in Sussex delivers a range of services for people affected by, or at risk of, domestic abuse in West Sussex. Our projects include confidential refuge provision for women and their children, supporting them in their recovery and empowering them to live their lives free from abuse. Safe in Sussex facilitates support groups in the community for women experiencing domestic abuse and to help recovery from the psychological trauma of abuse. To break the cycle of domestic abuse, the charity delivers age appropriate healthy relationship education programmes to children and young people in schools. In October 2017, we opened Amber House community refuge and domestic abuse drop-in centre in Littlehampton, the first of its kind in the UK, modelled on the Dutch Orange House, where the refuge is not hidden away but part of the community, providing early intervention support to stop domestic abuse from escalating.

www.safeinsussex.org

Exhibitors BALLROOM 18 Reaching Families

20 4Sight Vision Support

Reaching Families is a parent-carer led charity established in 2008 to ‘empower, inform and care for parents and families of children with special educational needs and disabilities in West Sussex’. We achieve this through the delivery of information (books and factsheets), training and peer support to over 2,000 families each year. Reaching Families would not have developed as much as it has without the support of Sussex Community Foundation who awarded us our first grant in 2008, £750 to deliver a training day for parent-carers in Worthing. We now deliver around 30 workshops per year to over 250 parents across West Sussex and have been able to grow because of the ongoing support of the Foundation.

www.reachingfamilies.org.uk

19 St Wilfrid’s Hospice, Chichester St Wilfrid’s Hospice has provided the highest level of end-oflife care in Chichester and surrounding areas for over 30 years. People with terminal conditions benefit from our attentive care, in a safe and calm environment. This can be in their own home or in the friendly warmth of the Hospice. We go to great lengths to make every patient comfortable and satisfy even the most unusual requests – even a visit from llamas! We have to raise around £6.5m each year from voluntary donations. We also rely on the support of 500+ volunteers who help in many different ways, from gardening and driving to bereavement counselling. With our DREAMBUILDING project well underway, we aim to complete the construction of our new purpose-built hospice in Bosham in 2019, enabling us to support many more people for years to come.

www.stwh.co.uk

22 Lunch Positive

24 Care for Veterans

Lunch Positive provides a locally unique service. This is a weekly HIV lunch club for residents of Brighton & Hove and the wider Sussex area. We undertake a wide range of activities, aimed at combating diverse disadvantages in order to impact positively on the health and well-being of beneficiaries. Our project provides a unique community space and service response to people in need. Centred around sharing an enjoyable healthy lunch, the service gives people an accepting, non-judgemental and supportive peer-led and delivered space to meet and engage, without fear of HIV stigma or rejection because of HIV status. Established 97 year ago, 4Sight Vision Support delivers a multi-disciplinary approach to support and empower visually impaired people in West Sussex to lead an independent, inclusive and fulfilling life after a sight loss diagnosis. At the heart of our holistic and person-centred services is a commitment to ensuring that a diagnosis of sight loss is not a one-way road to loss of independence and isolation. With a small, skilled and empathetic staff team and over 300 volunteers, we do this by providing a range of social and recreational activities, clubs, resource centres with dedicated support groups, tech and communication initiatives, culture clubs, volunteering and befriending services, sign-posting services, and fitness activities.

www.lunchpositive.org

23 Community Transport Sussex Care for Veterans (formerly The Queen Alexandra Hospital Home) was established in 1919 to care for those returning from World War 1 with life-changing disabilities. Next year, we celebrate 100 years of providing long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, respite and award-winning end-of-life care to disabled ex-servicemen and women and their dependents. Our ethos is to give all in our care the very best quality of life possible, in spite of their disability.

www.4Sight.org.uk

21 Extratime Set up by parents in 2003, Extratime provides inclusive afterschool clubs, holiday schemes and family events for children and young people who have special educational needs and disability. This year, we will provide almost 30,000 hours of out-of-school activities for around 300 children and young people (five-25 years) across Sussex. For disabled children and young people, the basic right to play, enjoy themselves and make friends can be the exception, rather than the norm. At Extratime, children with learning disabilities, complex health conditions and autism have the specialist care and support they need (often one-to-one) to have fun and socialise alongside the disabled and non-disabled peers. At Extratime, children have the childhood that other children and families take for granted, and parents have the short break they need from their caring role.

www.extratimebrighton.org.uk

Community Transport Sussex is a local community transport provider to the more vulnerable members of the Mid-Sussex community – those who for various reasons such as mobility and health issues are unable to access mainstream transport. We provide over 8000 journeys per month from our depots at Wivelsfield, Horsham, Crawley and East Grinstead - for our members who wish to attend elderly day care establishments and provide school transport to students with special needs to their schools and colleges. We have volunteer drivers who transport our members to their hospital and clinical appointments on a daily basis. We host several fund raising events each year and network with local businesses and organizations for support and donations from sponsors. This is an essential and ongoing activity to ensure the sustainability of our service to those who are most vulnerable.

www.ctsussex.org.uk

We specialise in caring for those with acquired brain injury and degenerative neurological conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s. Currently, our residents range in age from 33-100 years old. Our rehabilitation includes physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and neuropsychology. We also provide a wheelchair clinic, social and recreational activities and a chaplaincy service. We receive no regular Government funding and have to raise over £1.9 million every year.

www.careforveterans.org.uk

Exhibitors BALLROOM 25 Esteem

Thank you We hope you have enjoyed a stimulating and interesting day.

28 Home-Start Chichester & District

Esteem offers disadvantaged young people (14-26 years) opportunities to develop confidence, build life and workplace skills, improve wellbeing, while highlighting achievable pathways into employment, education and training. We do this by providing relevant voluntary work experience at all levels within Esteem, from event organisation, project management, youth trustee committee membership, volunteer coordination, marketing and social media, as well as community research projects.

We want to thank the following for all they have done to make today such a success. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and Gordon Anthony Bolton Members of the Lord-Lieutenant’s Voluntary Sector Forum CCLA The staff and volunteers at Goodwood House

Each young person is matched with a mentor on joining Esteem to explore their vocational ambitions and ease the transition into meaningful employment, education and training and financial independence. We encourage and value input from young people and champion a youth-led approach.

Sussex Community Foundation trustees and ambassadors Billie Moore and Natalie Harud of McCullough Moore (www.mcculloughmoore.co.uk)

Esteem progresses 82% of its young people into employment, education and training, and continues to provide support for as long as people need us.

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www.esteem.org.uk

26 Blueprint 22 As an organisation, we believe there is a story behind every person. We unite as a family to support, guide and help people, without judgement. Working with anyone aged 16-25 years old from Brighton to Bognor Regis, we give individuals the opportunity to participate in and develop projects. We encourage young adults to take control of their lives and to fulfil their potential.

Across the UK, more than 16,000 Home-Start volunteers visit families at home each week, supporting parents in situations as diverse as isolation, bereavement, multiple births, illness, disability or who are just finding parenting a struggle. They provide non-judgemental practical and emotional support and help build the family’s confidence, resilience and ability to cope.

www.blueprint22.org.uk

www.home-startchichester.org.uk

27 Age UK East Grinstead & District Age UK East Grinstead & District has been operating in East Grinstead town since 1950. The centre offers a range of services for people over the age of 50. We provide an activity centre, outings and trips, a Help at Home service, an outreach service and a Saturday respite (dementia) club.

www.ageuk.org.uk/eastgrinstead

CONTACT If you would like to hear more about Sussex Community Foundation and what we can do to support your giving, please contact Kevin Richmond, Chief Executive kevin.richmond@sussexgiving.org.uk Stephen Chamberlain, Head of Philanthropy stephen.chamberlain@sussexgiving.org.uk Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road, Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL 01273 409440 info@sussexgiving.org.uk www.sussexgiving.org.uk