£450k grant for east Brighton charity (From The Argus)
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£450k grant for east Brighton charity
2:00pm Wednesday 15th February 2012 in News By Tim Ridgway
Families at risk of breaking up will get help after a charity received a funding boost of more than £450,000.
East Brighton Family Support Project claims 40% of participating parents admitted they feared losing custody of their children prior to receiving support.
Following a bid to the Big Lottery Fund, the organisation has been given a grant of £466,453 for its Reaching Communities programme.
This will mean the project, which supports families most at risk of breaking down and involvement from social services, will be expanded.
The charity will base the project at Saltdean Primary School in Chiltington Way, and will support about 500 parents and carers and 900 children in 16 schools in the east Brighton area.
Since the project began in January 2009, more than 600 children and families have become more active in their communities, and 54 parents have returned to work, taken up volunteering or education.
One user, who asked to remain anonymous, said: “I was at the point of despair. My support worker tried to reassure me that I was not alone. She gave me steers as to how to help my child.”
It was one of three projects in the region to receive money from the lottery’s Reaching Communities programme.
Read more on this story and a two-page special report into voluntary organisations in Sussex inside today's Argus.
