Councillors face an impossible job each year when working out how much money they should give in grants to voluntary organisations.

There is a limit in their budget over how much they can give, although in Brighton and Hove it is a hefty sum and it has not been reduced, despite intense pressures.

Yet because this year the council used a new system to assess the grants, there were inevitably winners and losers.

Some of the losers have sad stories to tell, including the Women's Centre and Rape Crisis Project, as The Argus shows today.

The Citizens' Advice Bureau and leaseholders are among other organisations enraged at the lack of funds.

Councillors say they had to take into account duplication which does exist in some advice services and grants which organisations receive from other sources.

They may not have got it right in every case but increased claims from more groups each year mean the number of disappointed organisations increase.