Arts organisations in Sussex are to share part of a £30m cash bonanza from the Arts Council.

The biggest winner is the Brighton Dome, which receives a 566 per cent increase in funding.

The Arts Council package, spread over the next three years, is a 54 per cent rise in investment and will be shared between 113 organisations in the South-East.

In East Sussex, 29 organisations receive a total of £2,902,317 this year.

Among those to benefit over the next three years are Brighton Festival, which gets a 75 per cent boost and the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, which gets a 48 per cent increase.

The Gardner Arts Centre in Brighton gets a 24 per cent boost, Towner Art Gallery and Museum in Eastbourne receives 13.84 per cent and St Mary in the Castle, Hastings, gets 13 per cent.

In West Sussex, the Anne Sutton Foundation leads the way with a 120 per cent funding rise. Chichester Festival Theatre merits an 84.62 per cent increase, The Hawth, Crawley, gets 5.06 per cent and Pallant House in Chichester receives 21.62 per cent.

Felicity Harvest, executive director of Arts Council England, South-East, said: "Creative industries are already a force in the region, contributing more than a third of the South-East economy."

Others to benefit are: Arts & Business South-East, Brighton; Artworks (Hastings); Carousel Brighton; Education Through Art, St. Leonards; Fabrica, Brighton; Glyndebourne Touring & Education, Lewes; Hove Museum and Art Gallery; Interzone, Brighton; Komedia, Brighton; Lewes Live Literature; Lighthouse, Brighton; Made in Brighton; New Vic Workshop, Brighton; Queenspark Books, Brighton; Same Sky, Brighton; South-East Dance, Brighton; South-East Music Schemes East Hoathley; Sussex Arts Marketing, Brighton; Theatre and Beyond, Brighton; Theatre Melange Etchingham; University of Brighton Gallery; Visions Brighton and Zap Productions Ltd, Brighton.