Towner on the Town Partnerships

The Towner has developed relationships with many funders and partnership agencies.

They include:

Funders (past and present)

• Arts Council England – South East

• Eastbourne Borough Council

• Eastbourne Crime Reduction Partnership

• Momentum

• East Sussex County Council

• East Sussex Youth Development Programme

• East Sussex Youth Offending Team

• South East England Regional Development Agency

• Sussex Connexions

• Sussex Police

Partner Agencies (past and present)

• Sussex Downs College - Largest further education provider within East Sussex.  Partnership with the Eastbourne Entry to Employment programme for young people 16-19 years

• Causeway School - Largest secondary school based in North Langney.  Partnership with the school Social Exclusion Unit.

• East Sussex Youth Offending Team - Partnership with the East Sussex Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme, which is the most rigorous non-custodial intervention for serial and high level young offenders.

• Sussex Connextions - Partnership through Positive Activities for Young People programme (PAYP). PAYP is a national scheme for providing developmental activities for young people at risk.

• Eastbourne Foyer - Offers supported housing for at risk young people 16-25.

• Crime Reduction Initiative (Turnaround Detox Programme) - Structured day programme for people experiencing substance and alcohol misuse problems.  Originally voluntary now receives most referrals through judicial system Drug Treatment Testing Orders.

• Age Concern - works to benefit the older people of Eastbourne by providing services, support and advocacy.

• Shaftesbury Society - Provides advice, community development and empowerment within North Langney.

• WRVS Centre - Older persons day club that provides core and emergency services for the Local Authority.

• Eastbourne Crime Reduction Partnership’s Anti-Social Behaviour Group - commissioned Towner on the Town to work in local hot-spots for antisocial behaviour.