I was delighted to see that Coastal West Sussex Partnership were announced as one of the 16 been successful 'Fast Track' projects set to receive a share of £6million Coastal Communities Fund money to help deliver sustainable growth and jobs across the Great British Coast.
Coastal West Sussex Partnership have been awarded a £170,000 grant towards a £340,000 project to position coastal West Sussex as an active hub for water-based sports, Funding will promote collaboration and an experience based marketing campaign for local businesses, including a water sports development office.
As part of the fifth round of the Coastal Communities Fund, sixteen 'ready to go' projects have been selected to start work to transform their coastal communities in 2018-19 before the main round funding becomes available in April 2019.
The Coastal Communities Fund was established to support coastal projects in the UK deliver sustainable growth and jobs.
Since 2012, the Coastal Communities Fund has awarded grants to 295 projects across the UK, totalling over £173 million1. This has so far helped to start almost 500 new businesses and create more than 7,000 jobs – with these figures set to more than double once the projects that are already underway are completed.
Applications submitted for Round 5 of the Coast Communities Fund are currently being assessed. The successful main round bids of the remaining £34million are expected to be announced by early 2019.