Eastbourne and District Cruse and Safe UK are among nine voluntary and community groups across East Sussex which will benefit from grants from the latest round of East Sussex County Council's Seedcorn Fund.
The fund was set up to help local commun
ity groups and the latest to benefit from more than £33,000 of county council funding include projects to support youth work, respite care for carers in rural areas, support for bereaved children and for families affected by self-harm.
Groups receiving the grant include: The Association of Carers (Rother) who will receive £5,000, Eastbourne and District Cruse who also get £5,000, Rural Voices, Rural Choices (Lewes) £5,000, Act On It (Lewes) £3,000 and Safe UK (Hastings and Eastbourne) £4,700.
Grants in the latest round range from £429 up to the maximum of £5,000.
To qualify for Seedcorn funding, applicants must be able to show an element of innovation in their project, which must either pilot innovative approaches to service delivery, pilot the delivery of a local service to a wider geographical area or develop new approaches to user involvement.
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