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Sussex Historic Churches Trust awarded St Mary's Pulborough a grant of £18,000 in September 2024 towards the cost of masonry repair work which church urgently needs to carry out. The project will be a major effort supported by the Friends of Pulborough Parish Church who are busy raising funds to pay for the work and who made the application for a grant. It is a tribute to Jo Wotton who masterminded the application. A church spokesperson said: "This justifies all our sponsored fundraising for this charity over the years, particularly for the sponsored Ride and Stride annual event, that we have been awarded the largest grant that the Sussex Historic Churches Trust has ever made."

A landmark church in Brighton is a step closer to removing scaffolding which has encased the building for a decade - thanks to a £10,000 grant from the Sussex Historic Churches Trust. St Peter's Church - which occupies a very prominent site in the centre of Brighton – is hoping that the grant, plus an additional £5,000 grant from the Wolfson Foundation, will mean that the scaffolding can come down soon. The church celebrated its 200th anniversary last year. A spokesperson said: "These grants will mean the church will be able to carry out urgent repairs to the building. It is hopeful that this will enable the scaffolding that is obscuring the church to finally be dismantled. “While there will still be some work after this phase to keep the building watertight and in good condition, it is a huge achievement that the historic fabric of the building will be protected again. “Without this project, there would have been further deterioration and the church would struggle to continue to host the wide-ranging community groups inside the building.” St Peter’s Church, which was designed by Sir Charles Barry, who also designed the Houses of Parliament. is a Grade II* listed building which is on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk list. The tower has been a huge concern for years due to eroding masonry and crumbling stone and rust.