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OUR PEOPLEFounder and PresidentsOur Founder The Duke of Richmond and Gordon
Joint Presidents Susan Pyper, Lord Lieutenant of West Sussex Peter Field, Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex
TrusteesDavid Allam, ChairmanElizabeth Bennett DLConsuelo BrookeMaggie BurgessCharles DraysonJonica FoxKathy Gore DLNeil Hart DLKeith HollisTrevor JamesSteve ManwaringMichael MartinRichard PearsonJohn Peel OBEHumphrey PriceMike Simpkin OBE Pamela Stiles
Contact usSussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1RL01273 409440email: [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
StaffGrants Administrator Adrian BarrottProgrammes Manager Mary CarruthersCommunications Manager Miranda KempResources Manager Rex MankelowDevelopment Manager Janet OrmerodChief Executive Kevin Richmond
Our advisersRegistered auditors Knill James LLP
Investment managers Sarasin & Partners LLPCCLA Investment Management
Solicitors Thomas Eggar LLP
OUR THANKSFunds
Aisbitt Family Fund American Express FundAmy Hart Fund Arthur & Doreen Green Fund Arthur & Rosemary Kay FundArun Cat Fund Blagrave Trust FundBoltini FundBrenda Ford Fund Brighton & Hove Arts Fund Brighton & Hove Community Health FundBrighton & Hove Grassroots FundCarpenter Box Fund Comic Relief Fund Community First Endowment FundCragwood Fund Cullum Family Trust Fund Dame Elizabeth Nash FundDavid and Karen Allam FundDexam FundEast Sussex Grassroots Fund East Sussex High Sheriff’s FundFangorn FundField Family FundFleming Family FundGatwick Diamond Business Challenge FundGlenn and Phyllida Earle FundGurney Charitable Trust FundHastings Proactive Grant ProjectHigh Weald Fund Lewes & District Flood & Disaster Relief FundLewes Fund Leyden House FundLisbet Rausing FundLittle Cheyne Court Wind Farm Fund Localgiving.com Margaret Greenhough Fund Marit and Hans Rausing Fund Meads Fund Millicent Mather FundNick and Gill Wills Fund
Noel Bennett Fund Older & Bolder Fund Open Door Fund Pargiter Trust FundPeel Family FundPegasus FundPro Bono FundRainbow FundRooney Foundation Fund Rye Fund ESCC Seedcorn FundSouthern Water Community Gardens Fund Surviving Winter Fund Sussex Police Community Cashback FundWest Sussex Grassroots FundWest Sussex High Sheriff’s Fund Westdene FundWestoute FundWilliam Alexander Fund William Reed Fund Worthing & Adur Fund
Other supporters include
Albert Van den Bergh Charitable Trust Ardington HotelBear PatrolBrighton & Hove City CouncilBrighton Pride CICEast Sussex County CouncilEast Sussex Women of the Year 2013LegendsMiller ParrisMazarsOffice for Civil SocietyQuilter CheviotThe Ian Askew Charitable TrustThomas EggarUK Community FoundationsWest Sussex County CouncilWorthing & Adur Chamber of Commerce
and many individual donors.
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AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, MORE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES BY ADDRESSING DISADVANTAGE AND DEPRIVATION THROUGH OUR GRANT-MAKING. WE BELIEVE THAT LONGTERM CHANGE COMES FROM WITHIN A COMMUNITY AND WE PROVIDE GRANTS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY ORGANISATIONS TO ACHIEVE THIS.
This map shows just some of the places where we have matched what our communities say they need with the funds to meet those needs.The more deprived an area (across a number of indicators), the darker it is shaded on this map. More on the deprivation indicators can be found in our report Sussex Uncovered at www.sussexgiving.org.uk
Immigration detainees are
among the most disadvantaged groups in
the country. Many are young, vulnerable and a long way from home.
Gatwick Detainees Welfare Group supports asylum seekers and other migrants detained at detention centres at Gatwick Airport. A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund
helped to pay for detainee welfare, including phone cards.
Mediation Plus helps adults and young people by
offering a confidential, impartial and independent mediation service. A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund helped to pay for ‘Mediation Skills for Life’ workshops for adults across Wealden to provide them with new
skills and understanding they can take away and use, and a further workshop for young people.
Local authorities must by law involve adults with autism when
developing local adult autism services. At Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their concerns and help influence the services offered by the local authority. A grant from our William Reed Fund helped towards the group’s
core costs.
Dfuse Citizens Training gives people the skills to deal with
conflict, confrontation, aggression and antisocial behaviour wherever they encounter it: in the street, in the workplace, in the school, or in their own community. A grant from our Glenn and Phyllida Earle Fund
will help fund the training of local people to defuse community conflict and antisocial behaviour.
Shine for Life offers equine assisted psychotherapy and learning to a wide range of clients, who interact with the horses in structured sessions. A grant from
our Cullum Family Fund paid for subsidised sessions to local clients with no or on low incomes.
Over 900,000 people in the UK relied on a food
bank at some point last year, often in places you wouldn’t expect
needed one. Lewes Food Bank received a grant from our Lewes Fund to help replenish ongoing food supplies and basic essentials, such as toiletries. It supplies people with three days’ worth of emergency supplies,
when referred by a GP, advice agency or JobCentre.
Hove Lunch Club provides a healthy and hot three-course meal
for isolated older people, once a week. “We offer weekly social contact, the opportunity to play games and to listen
to guest speakers,” says organiser Caroline Henderson. A grant from our Pargiter Trust Fund went towards transport costs for members and for a paid worker.
Perhaps surprisingly, Petworth is an area of rural deprivation and has
limited social opportunities, other than the pub or church. Petworth Community
Garden received a grant from our Comic Relief Large Grant Fund to offer ‘Learn and Grow’
community gardening sessions to local people, including those at risk of
food poverty, and people with learning or other disabilities, in its wheelchair accessible garden.
St Wilfrid’s Hospice provides skilled and
compassionate care for patients with complex needs as they near the
end of their lives. Nurses are involved in many aspects of this care from providing relief of symptoms to simply listening and empathising with the patient’s – and their family’s – fears. A grant from our Lisbet Rausing Fund contributed towards
the cost of providing a nurse for six weeks.
The Seaview Project works with people who feel they are living on the edge of society and who believe that there is little hope for their future. A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund paid for additional intensive support to local people who are
rough sleeping, homeless, or placed in crisis accommodation.
The Secret Garden Group is turning a hidden area of a local
church’s grounds into an allotment and garden for the whole community to
enjoy. A grant from our Southern Water Fund helped pay for the development of the pond, some wooden sleepers to build raised beds with disabled access and to develop metre-wide paths, also to enable disabled access.
Music of our Time brings together local musicians
with professional performers for contemporary classical music
events. A grant from our Brighton & Hove Arts Fund supported the Sounds of War-Instruments of Peace 1914-2014 concerts to commemorate the First
World War centenary and the 70th anniversary of D-Day.
Brighton City Table Tennis Club provides role models to
support the personal development of young people, to instill lifelong love of table tennis and to build a strong community. A grant from our William Alexander Fund helped to purchase three new table tennis tables, allowing the
Club to expand its membership and the length of its sessions.
Exploring Senses delivers a range of innovative and
creative events to engage children and young people, helping them learn
new skills and perhaps build a future for themselves in the city’s thriving digital sector. A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund helped to offer CommuniToy, Robot Relays, and
Codes For Kids activities across Brighton & Hove.
Brighton & Hove has
the highest rate of children with special
needs in Sussex. However, it’s often down to parents to develop the services they need. Brighton Pebbles is one such parent-led support group. A grant from our Cullum Family, Rooney Foundation and Noel Bennett Funds supported
their work, reducing the isolation experienced by many families.
Gladrags Community Costume Resource comprises over 5,000 costumes and other items and brings the magic of costumes to the community.
A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund supported
workshops for children.
Since City Angels began providing a ‘calming presence’
to the streets of Chichester on a Friday and alternate Saturday
nights, local police tell them that ‘violent acts on a person’ figures have dropped by 82%. A grant from our Marit and Hans Rausing Fund will enable City Angels to
increase its service in the city.
Over 40,000 households in
West Sussex are in fuel poverty. Arun &
Chichester CAB received grants from our Surviving Winter Fund to distribute to people in their area struggling to meet their fuel bills and
having to choose whether to ‘heat or eat’.
Loneliness doesn’t just affect women. Men in Sheds meetings
are held in a large version of a garden shed. Members pursue
practical interests, mainly making a variety of items from reclaimed wood. They share skills and learn informally, in a companionable environment. A grant from our
West Sussex Grassroots Fund paid for essential materials.
Research shows that loneliness is highest among women over 75, living on their own. “I was a real computer-phobe,” says 80-year-old Ruth
Colbourne, who attends weekly Getting on with IT sessions. “Now I
do email, I’ve compared flight costs and shared pictures with family.” A grant
from our West Sussex Grassroots Fund paid for the course tutor.
To read more about the people and groups we fund, visit www.sussexgiving.org.uk Call us on 01273 409440
The Sunbeam
Swimming Club offers weekly sessions to
people with learning and/or physical disabilities to swim socially or competitively together in Horsham. A grant from our William
Reed Fund helped to pay for the hire of an
extra lane at the pool.
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Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
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Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
![Page 4: AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, … · 2017. 2. 2. · Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group. meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their](https://reader033.vdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022051923/60110ead532793063d31cc8e/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
![Page 5: AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, … · 2017. 2. 2. · Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group. meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their](https://reader033.vdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022051923/60110ead532793063d31cc8e/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
![Page 6: AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, … · 2017. 2. 2. · Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group. meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their](https://reader033.vdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022051923/60110ead532793063d31cc8e/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
![Page 7: AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, … · 2017. 2. 2. · Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group. meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their](https://reader033.vdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022051923/60110ead532793063d31cc8e/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
![Page 8: AT SUSSEX COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, WE BUILD STRONGER, … · 2017. 2. 2. · Asperger’s Voice Self-Advocacy Group. meetings, people with Asperger syndrome can speak openly about their](https://reader033.vdocuments.net/reader033/viewer/2022051923/60110ead532793063d31cc8e/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
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 CommissionCover image by Kieron Pelling/www.compellingphotography.co.uk / Other images by www.jocripps.com & Shutterstock.comDesign www.wave.coop / Printed by The Manor Group
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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME
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Researchers often talk about quantitative and qualitative data. In other words, how many of them were there and what were they like?
We’ve arrived at some pretty big numbers this year: £7.5 million in grants given, £9 million raised for our endowment fund for Sussex, 3,000 grants given to over 1,500 charities and communities… all since our launch in 2006.
A milestone figure for us this year was our first £1 million donation. From
an anonymous Sussex donor, this was matched by half
through the Government’s Community First
Endowment Challenge and, with Gift Aid added, our biggest single donation grew immediately to £1.75 million.
All very impressive but behind the figures
lie the real people and their stories – the qualitative data, if you will, that let us measure the positive impact of our work. What makes Sussex Community Foundation unique for donors is our relationships with the community groups we fund. By listening to those charities and groups, we have developed a real understanding of what’s happening on the ground in Sussex and what those groups tell us they need.
One of those groups is Brighton Pebbles (pictured), a parent-led group for children with disabilities and their families. The group actively welcomes families whose children have great difficulty accessing mainstream activities because of their autism and challenging behaviour. A grant from our Cullum Family and Rooney Foundation funds has enabled the group to rent office space and develop workshops for families. Our donors were
keen to support smaller community organisations, particularly in Brighton & Hove, and to support children with disabilities and their families, respectively. We were happy to bring them together.
By listening and working with our donors, we can help them maximise their philanthropic giving and help them deliver the community benefits they want their money to achieve, aligned with what those communities tell us they need. We are delighted that we are now the natural choice for Sussex donors who want to develop their local philanthropy at grassroots level. It’s what we’ve been working towards since 2006.
You can read more on the opposite page about our plans to delve deeper and work more closely in North East Hastings to really help the people there tackle their own issues in the way they think is best.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S WELCOME
WHAT WE’VE BEEN DOING…
The Community First Endowment Challenge continues
until March 2015 and the race is on to bag as much of the available money as possible for Sussex.
If you want to know more, please email me at
[email protected] It is eight years since Sussex Community Foundation was formed. We now have an established track record as a friendly and flexible grant-maker who consistently delivers great opportunities for donors to maximise their charitable giving. It is now time for us to look at what we do in more to depth in order that our grant-making reflects accurately what local communities say they need.
We have completed an initial review of our grant-making and its purpose. Building on the findings of our Sussex Uncovered report, launched last autumn, and our consultations with partners across Sussex, we are developing a ‘mixed economy’ of grant-making. This means we will continue with our responsive grant-making programmes, where we award small grants to small community groups, alongside the development of a larger grants programme. In addition, we want to establish a programme of proactive grant-making that reflects our core belief that long-term solutions to disadvantage have to come from within the community. In addition, we plan to develop a grant-giving strategy for each donor who holds
a named fund with us. This will help ensure that their charitable giving is helping meet the needs of communities they wish to support and address issues they particularly want to help tackle.
Sussex Uncovered showed that Hastings is the most deprived district in the South East of England and that, in its Baird and Tressell wards, 67% of children are growing up in poverty. We’ve spent a lot of time in Hastings this year, meeting various people and organisations, and have started to work in partnership with the Big Local. It’s a Big Lottery-funded initiative that will see 150 areas around England use at least a £1million ‘to make a massive and lasting difference to their communities’.
The Big Local project that we are supporting will help four important community centres in North East Hastings become sustainable. The project will provide training and support for the trustees of the community centres, help them to develop business plans, and work together on a joint strategy between the centres. They will recruit apprentice managers from within the community, with training provided by Sussex Coast College and support
from a community development worker. The whole project will cost £60,000 per year over three years and a number of our donors have already enabled us to commit £30,000 each year for three years to the project which will be matched by the Big Lottery.
We want to use the North East Hastings project as a pilot for our developing proactive grant-making in partnership with a local community and to develop something we can roll out in other areas of Sussex.
So, as we move forward, we are building on our strengths to support local people to make the positive changes in their communities that they want to make. We hope you will come with us on that journey.
LOOKING AHEAD
WHAT WE’RE DOING NEXT…
67%OF CHILDREN ARE
GROWING UP IN POVERTY IN PARTS OF HASTINGS
OUR DONORS HAVE ALREADY PLEDGED
£30,000TOWARDS THE PROJECT
ANNUAL REVIEW2014
VISIT OUR WEBSITE WWW.SUSSEXGIVING.ORG.UK
Sussex Community Foundation 15 Western Road Lewes East Sussex BN7 1RL
01273 409440 [email protected] www.sussexgiving.org.uk www.facebook.com/sussexgiving Twitter@SussexGiving
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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
£18mTO SUPPORT
SUSSEX COMMUNITIES 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
with those donors totalling £7.5 million to over 1,500 charities and community groups.
We are building an endowment fund for Sussex, currently worth £9 million, that will benefit our county for generations to come.
OUR FINANCE
This summary is extracted from the financial statements approved by the
Board of Sussex Community Foundation on 22 July 2014. In order to gain a
more complete understanding of our financial affairs, copies of the full
statutory accounts, the unqualified auditors’ report and the trustees’ report
are available from Sussex Community Foundation’s registered address.
David Allam, Chairman, on behalf of the trustees of Sussex Community Foundation
Summary statement of financial activities for the year ended 31 March 2014
Total incoming resources
Resources expendedCosts of generating donations and legacies
Net incoming resources available
Charitable activitiesGrants awardedOther direct charitable expenditureGovernance costs
Total resources expended
Transfers between funds
Net incoming resources
Gains/losses on investments
Net movement in funds
Fund balances at 1st April 2013
Fund balances at 31 March 2014
Restrictedfunds
1,054,256
0
1,054,256
1,316,48095,066
0
1,411,546
241,267
-116,023
0
-116,023
491,043
375,020
Unrestricted funds
323,521
63,328
260,193
0 256,211
32,613
352,152
0
-28,631
0
-28,631
295,810
267,179
Total2014
4,539,172
63,328
4,475,844
1,316,480425,356
32,613
1,837,777
0
2,701,395
143,840
2,845,235
6,655,731
9,500,966
Total2013
2,936,161
58,086
2,878,075
1,038,915 337,716
28,408
1,463,125
0
1,473,036
469,180
1,942,216
4,713,515
6,655,731
Endowmentfunds
3,161,395
0
3,161,395
0 74,079
0
74,079
-241,267
2,846,049
143,840
2,989,889
5,868,878
8,858,767
Balance sheet at 31 March 2014
Fixed assetsTangible assetsInvestments
Current assetsDebtors Cash at bank and in hand
Creditors falling due within one year
Net current assets
Net assets
Represented by:Endowment fund
Restricted funds: grant funds awaiting distributionGeneral reserves – for core operating costs
2013£
219 5,840,422
5,840,641
106,589 772,429
879,018
-63,928
815,090
6,655,731
5,868,878
491,043295,810
6,655,731
2014£
164 8,638,766
8,638,930
282,933 642,113
925,046
-63,010
862,036
9,500,966
8,858,767
375,020 267,179
9,500,966
£71
FOR EVERY £1 INVESTED IN FUNDRAISING WE RAISED
£71
£1
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, 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.
TIMELINE 2013-14
KEY ACHIEVEMENTSWE HOST
FOUR SEMINARS FOR SUSSEX
PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS ABOUT INHERITANCE TAX
LAUNCH OF SURVIVING WINTER
2013 WHICH RAISES
£30,000FOR PEOPLE IN
SUSSEX LIVING IN FUEL POVERTY
£158,267GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS
SUNBEAM SWIMMING CLUB IN HORSHAM
WINEMAKER JONICA FOX JOINS OUR TRUSTEE BOARD
THE MARQUESS AND MARCHIONESS OF ABERGAVENNY HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME, ERIDGE PARK
WE HOST THE LATEST IN A SERIES OF PHILANTHROPY FELLOWSHIP
EVENTS IN HASTINGS
SUSSEX CVS PARTNERS JOIN US FOR THE FIRST TIME TO
CONSIDER GRANT APPLICATIONS, PART OF ENSURING OUR GRANTS
PROGRAMME IS ROBUST AND TRANSPARENT
OUR FIRST
£1 MILLIONDONATION! GIFT AID AND COMMUNITY FIRST MATCH FUNDING TURNED IT INTO
£1.75 MILLIONFOR SUSSEX
WINE TASTING AT PLUMPTON COLLEGE
LEYDEN HOUSE TRUST GIVES US
£130,000TO SUPPORT GROUPS HELPING PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES £415,445
GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS BRIGHTON PEBBLES
OUR NEW WEBSITE GOES LIVE
WE LAUNCH OUR REPORT SUSSEX UNCOVERED ON THE NEEDS OF SUSSEX
WE ARE QUALITY ACCREDITED FOR THE THIRD TIME BY OUR PARENT ORGANISATION
£173,549GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH GETTING ON WITH IT FROM WORTHING
OVER 250 GUESTS JOIN US TO CELEBRATE
SUSSEX GIVING AT WARNHAM PARK, HOME
OF THE HIGH SHERIFF OF WEST SUSSEX,
JONATHAN LUCAS, AND HIS WIFE CAROLINE
JULY OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBERSEPTEMBER
£185,000GIVEN OUT IN GRANTS TO GROUPS SUCH AS ASPERGER’S VOICE IN CRAWLEY
BBC TV’S DAVID DIMBLEBY AND HIS WIFE BELINDA GILES HOST A RECEPTION FOR US AT THEIR HOME IN EAST SUSSEX
WE MOVE TO OUR NEW OFFICES!
WE START TO DEVELOP
NEW GRANTS STRATEGY TO
INCLUDE LARGER GRANTS OVER LONGER
PERIODS OF TIME