People & Communities
1.76 million people live in Sussex Bay. We bring together communities, businesses, charities, universities and public bodies to help more people connect with the coast and shape its future.
We bring expertise at scale, supporting participation, creativity and collaboration to ensure that nature recovery delivers lasting benefits for people as well as the environment. Below are just some of the programmes, partnerships and opportunities helping people get involved across Sussex Bay.
There is a place for you here: you are welcome as together, we are all Sussex Bay.
Meaningful collaboration.
Lasting impact.
Younger people
Sussex Bay is proud to support projects that help people connect with nature, place and meaningful careers, bringing together education, employers and communities to shape the future of our coast. Working with partners across Sussex, we're helping develop new pathways into the blue economy and nature-led recovery:
Nature. Jobs. Prosperity.
Communities
Sussex Bay is proud to support projects that bring communities together to care for nature, celebrate local places and shape the future of our coast. Working with partners across Sussex, we're helping create stronger connections between people, place and nature through collaboration, participation and shared action.
People. Nature. Place.
Crafting visions
Sussex Bay brings together communities, experts and partners to help shape a shared vision for the future of our coast. Through creative engagement, collaboration and place-based planning, we're supporting local people to imagine, design and deliver, test and try things out, to create a thriving Sussex Bay for generations to come.
Vision. Place. Action.
