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Cabinet councillors approved more than £270,000 for voluntary organisations in 2022/23 in the first tranche of community grants to be awarded under a new policy.

This new approach has been introduced to allow Lewes District Council to support a broad range of groups. The council hopes the new strategy will give flexibility to those it helps and reach out to a greater number of residents.

It also marks an increase of more than £100,000 to voluntary groups over the next three years.

For the first time, groups were asked to apply under five categories:

Advice

Citizens Advice £190,000

East Sussex Hearing Resource £7,000

East Sussex Vision Support £2,500

Sussex Association for Spina Bifida & Hydrocephalus £1,900

Community Infrastructure

Hillcrest Community Centre £10,000

3VA £29,000

Environment and Wellbeing

Newhaven Gig Rowing Club £10,000

Railway Land Wildlife Trust £3,600

Pippa’s Group £6,000

Baxters Field £2,000

Denton Community Challenge £750

Homeless Prevention

Lewes District Churches Homelink £12,000

Equalities

Children with Cancer Fund £2,000

Seahaven Hard of Hearing £1,000

Home-Start East Sussex £8,228