Cuckmere Community Bus

Our Mission is providing a safe, reliable and courteous local bus, serving those rural and urban communities in our part of East Sussex not served by the commercial bus companies. Our Vision is being the Community Bus Service of choice in our area. We have been operating for over 45 years and run a small fleet of 16-seater mini-buses from our base in Berwick. We operate over 20 weekly timetabled services, requiring nearly twice as many half-day shifts, taking people to their nearest centres for shopping, appointments, or for pleasure. We also operate summer leisure services and offer private hire facilities. We provide special annual services for International Tennis in Eastbourne, and the Charleston festivals. The company is run entirely by volunteers; there are no employees. We have some 45 fully trained drivers and some 10 additional volunteers who all help run the fleet and keep the wheels turning. Want to join us as a volunteer? See the 'volunteering' link below. We are like any other bus company except we operate smaller buses to help reach parts other buses can't reach. E&W concessionary passes are accepted on all our timetabled services. In a normal year (pre-covid) we run 125,000 miles and undertake over 80,000 passenger-journeys.

We operate 8 low floor single step entry 16 seat minibuses on 25 different services in East Sussex using only trained volunteers