Current Programmes

Action in rural Sussex has a wide range of projects and programmes that it is currently delivering. The details of these are listed below under the relevant Action in rural Sussex aim, each of which has been extracted from the current Business Plan. 

Aim 1:

Reduce the incidence and impact of disadvantage and poverty on people living in rural areas

• Village Care Programme (East Sussex)

• Chichester Isolation Action Group

• West Sussex Health and Wellbeing Pathfinder Project

• Family Outreach Services (East Sussex) (COPES)

• Children and Young People Programme (East Sussex)

• Children, Young People and Family Support (West Sussex)

• Food and Local Products

• Community Chef

Aim 2:

Increasing the capacity of rural communities to manage change to the benefit of all their members

• Parish and Town Action Plans Support

• Community Buildings / Village Halls Support

• Rural Access to Services Programme (East Sussex)

• Rural Access to Services Programme (West Sussex)

• Rural Housing Support

• Rural Shops Support

• Rural Towns Programme (West Sussex)

• Social Enterprise Support

• Rural Transport - Down your Way

• Rural Transport - Community Rail Projects

Aim 3:

Inform and Amplify the voices of rural communities to influence public policy

• Research and Policy

• Rural Advocacy and Best Practice

• Wealden Links Carnegie Project

• Village of the Year Competition

• East Sussex Social Enterprise Network

Aim 4:

Support Partnership Initiatives with other organisations in pursuit of the first three Aims

• West Sussex Rural Partnership and Forum

• East Sussex Rural Partnership and Forum 

• Sussex Voluntary and Community Sector Learning Consortium

• East Sussex ChangeUp

• West Sussex ChangeUp

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