On Saturday 1st September TDC were thrilled to be involved in the Park Life Big Picnic, organised by a group of families in Whitehawk to raise awareness of their campaign to improve their local parks. Park Life are engaging local residents to fight for better parks facilities for local children and the picnic next to … Read more
The 2018 Brighton & Hove Older People’s Festival is fast approaching! It will take place between Monday 24th September and Sunday 7th October with dozens of events and celebrations across the city. The aim of this year’s festival is to focus on ageing well in Brighton & Hove and we’re once again looking forward to being … Read more
Moulsecoomb & Bevendean launched its Neighbourhood Action Plan on 8th August with community members from across the ward joining councillors and services to hear about their local priorities. There are three key themes in the NAP – · Community Spaces, Safety & Environment · Health & wellbeing · Activity, Learning & Employment This launch meeting looked at the first … Read more
Are you a service provider in any of the following wards? · Moulsecoomb and Bevendean · East Brighton · Hangleton and Knoll · Hanover and Elm Grove If so, come and join us along with others for your local hub networking sessions in your ward. These sessions are a partnership between Community Works, Trust for Developing Communities, Brighton and … Read more
With funding from East Brighton Trust, the Moulsecoomb Bangladeshi Women’s Group (BWG) went on an educational and intergenerational trip with 25 people, 12 children and 13 adults, to the Coriander Club at Spitalfields City Farm. This was followed by a buffet lunch and a visit to East London Mosque in Tower Hamlets – one of … Read more
The Activity programme for Summer 2018 kicked off this week with a chilled movie and pizza night at the 67 Centre where we settled down to watch and tunefully sing along to The Greatest Showman. This was followed the next day by a high adrenaline trip Gokarting at Teamsport in Lancing where 12 young people … Read more
Every year TDC supports community organisations to give out small pots of Public Health funding and most are currently open to applications from small community groups. This fund is a great way for people to develop their 5 ways to wellbeing through local art/craft, exercise/ dance groups and eating/ growing food, amongst other things: You … Read more
Instead of a Summer Fair this year, the people of Craven Vale decided to organise a whole week of free community activities for residents of the area, under the title “Craven Vale Summer Jamboree”. Most of the activities were held at The Vale Community Centre on Hadlow Close and free refreshments were available throughout the week. … Read more
Residents of Hollingdean were invited to Hollingdean Community Centre on Wednesday evening to share their thoughts about the place they call home. The Hollingdean Community Catch Up offered residents the chance to bring their ideas, energy and creativity to discuss issues important to people in the area and to act collectively on them. Visitors were … Read more
Once again the locals put on a fantastic, family-friendly community event in Tarner Park this weekend as Tarner World Festival 2018 took place. This year, Tarner Community Project partnered with Audio Active and South East Dance to provide a range of entertainment, suitable for all ages and made accessible to the D/deaf community through BSL … Read more
Brighton Pride returns to the city this August and the Brighton & Hove Youth Collective will again be providing a team of trained youth workers to look out for young people at the party in Preston Park. In 2017, over 300,000 people gathered in the city for the Pride parade and party, many of these … Read more
Bevendean’s community festival BevFest took place this year on Saturday 7th July. The Friends of BevFest committee worked for months to bring together musical acts, food and drink stalls and the local community groups and services to create a truly wonderful family and community festival on the Playing Field in Lower Bevendean. Despite the hot … Read more