These are the Sussex good causes that have shared in the annual £50,000 cash giveaway from family brewer

There are few pubs more scenically located than the Black Rabbit at Arundel in West Sussex and it proved the perfect location for many good causes to receive a share of the annual community chest fund.

The family-owned brewer launched the initiative in 2002 and again pledged a total of £50,000 to worthy causes located across the South. Hall and Woodhouse’s grant application process allows voluntary and charity groups to apply for up to £3,000 each to support their needs.

Sussex World and its newspapers – which include the Chichester Observer, Worthing Herald, Hastings Observer, Eastbourne Herald, Crawley Observer, West Sussex County Times, Mid Sussex Times, Sussex Express, and the West Sussex Gazette – have been the official media partner for the eastern area awards ever since they were established.

Every year, hundreds of applications are received for a share of the money and a judging panel led by Family Director Mark Woodhouse carefully consider them all – including visiting many of the shortlisted charities.

Mr Woodhouse explained: “The Community Chest was founded over 20 years ago to support and strengthen the local communities of which our pubs are an integral part of. It is simply the right thing to do to maintain our offer of financial support for these local organisations that play such vital roles in our communities.”

This year’s recipients included:

Bell Tower Drop-In; Care for the Carers; Chichester Area Mental Health Support Foundation; Chichester Information Shop for Young People; CYCALL; Disabled Sailors Association; Fabrica; Hub4Stuff; The Juno Project; Kangaroos Mid Sussex; Mary How Trust for Cancer Prevention; Pelican Parcels; Pippa’s Group; Springboard; Sussex Wheelchair Basketball; Terry’s Place; Waypoint Hub.

Since 2002, the community chest has donated some three quarters of a million pounds to 900 causes across the south of England and works in partnership with both the Dorset and Sussex Community Foundations.

Hall and Woodhouse is an independent Dorset family company that brews award winning Badger Ales and runs an estate of high-quality pubs in the south of England. The company was founded in 1777 by Charles Hall, a Dorset farmer, who opened a Brewery in the village of Ansty. After more than 240 years, the company remains family owned, with Anthony Woodhouse and Mark Woodhouse both in the business as the current seventh generation stewards.

The company has a collection of 170 beautiful pubs that make up its managed house and Business Partner estate, stretching from Bristol to Exeter, London to Brighton.

Sussex World congratulated Hall and Woodhouse for its consistency in providing cash support to those groups that most needed it and could show the efforts they were making to help themselves.

Applications will soon be invited for the 2023 cash allocation and will be widely publicised on Sussex World and in its newspapers.