Wild Coast Sussex

Wild Coast Sussex - Sussex Wildlife Trust

Wild Coast Sussex - an exciting new project to connect coastal communities with their beautiful Sussex seas.

Sussex Wildlife Trust is delighted to have been awarded a grant of £528,600 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund for its Wild Coast Sussex Project thanks to money raised by National Lottery players. Wild Coast Sussex will inspire Sussex communities to care for the marine environment and enable them to protect their local coast and sea.

Sussex Wildlife Trust is the lead partner on this exciting project with Marine Conservation Society, Sussex Inshore Fisheries and Conservation Authority and Brighton SEA LIFE.

Nikki Hills, Wild Coast Sussex Project Manager at Sussex Wildlife Trust said ‘Our partnership champions the rare and precious marine wildlife found locally, highlighting the extraordinary underwater kelp forests, seahorses and rays once abundant in Sussex which could recover and thrive if local communities know about them, understand the threats and support their conservation. The project aims to inspire and connect people to the Sussex coast and sea and engage those people by direct action to protect it. It will enable learning and activities to encourage positive lifestyle choices and behaviour change which in turn will reduce negative impacts on the Sussex coast and sea by empowering people to share experience and influence others. We will work with primary schools, young people (aged 12-25) and commercial fishermen, as well as the wider community and general public and take them on a journey to make a positive difference to the crisis in the health of the sea.’