Community Partnerships

For our local communities and everyone who works with them.

The Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) creates sustainable partnerships that benefit and inspire local communities and the University of Brighton.

We work with local community, voluntary, social enterprise and statutory organisations, helping develop ideas into projects, provide start-up funding and help networks and communities of practice develop. 

Please email cupp@brighton.ac.uk to register for our mailing list.

Join the CUPP network

Follow us @Cuppbrighton

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Working with you

We work with local groups and organisations to help our communities to thrive.

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Publications and resources

This collection of resources will help practitioners and academics gain insight into community-university working practices.

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Events

Our events are open to everybody, cover a wide range of interests and focus on exchanging knowledge between researchers, practitioners and community members. 

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News

Find out more about community news here.

Meet the CUPP team

Previous projects

Get in touch

If you are enquiring about research, university resources and partnership opportunities.

Contact us at cupp@brighton.ac.uk

 

About CUPP

The University of Brighton's Community University Partnership Programme (CUPP) began in 2003.

Originally a project externally funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, since 2006 CUPP has been core funded by the University of Brighton. Since then we have been creating, developing and nurturing mutually beneficial partnerships between the university and its local community and have now become central to the university’s strategy. 

Through our strong student community engagement programme and a broad range of knowledge exchange projects CUPP has worked with over 150 academics, 3000 students and 500 community partners. 

In It Together documents the learning journey from the inception of CUPP to a portfolio of 70 projects.

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This short film explores exciting and innovative partnerships working with a wide variety of communities, and diverse academic disciplines, illustrating how we are all In It Together.