“When I came to Brighton, I was like a plant pulled from its land, I was afraid people couldn’t understand me, I couldn’t understand them and I didn’t have confidence. In Jordan I had my work, culture, friends, possessions, but here, nothing, we begin from zero, this is very hard for us. MESH made these … Read more
As lockdown eases and vaccination provides more protection, TDC has been working with vulnerable communities to support vaccine confidence. We have been out and about talking about vaccination with people from different communities. Our social prescriber Maha and volunteer Clare have visited a local Mosque, providing information to encourage people to get vaccinated as soon … Read more
TDC is one of the partner organisations of Community Roots, a network of non-clinical mental health services that help people find the right support for them. This network is the first of its kind in Sussex. One of our key aims is to ensure that no matter where people enter the mental health system, they can … Read more
The challenges of the last year mean that wellbeing has never been more important. Particularly for the members of our Black and minority ethnic community — who figures show have been disproportionately affected by the recent pandemic. That’s why TDC and Active Sussex have been working in partnership to support local people by encouraging greater … Read more
In 2020/21 TDC’s Healthy Neighbourhood Fund gave out over 100 grants, supporting 4,600 people. We supported local community partners to form panels and make funding decisions, giving support to projects right across the city from Portslade to Bevendean, Whitehawk to Hollingbury, and beneficiaries included art clubs, community gardens, self-defense classes, shopping trollies for food banks, … Read more
We couldn’t do what we do without volunteers supporting our work. Today we’d like to take a moment to thank them all. The volunteers who work with TDC and all the volunteers that support our partner organisations and the community groups we work with. They are simply essential to our work. Like Sarah Griffiths who … Read more
Today we’re celebrating our volunteer Clare Abdel-Basit. Clare has been working as a volunteer for TDC since January 2021 and her time with us got off to a dramatic starts as Clare, a former midwife, found herself as an advocate supporting a woman to give birth, 12 years after she last worked in a hospital. … Read more
It’s Volunteer’s Week and all week TDC will be celebrating the work of volunteers who do so much to support communities in Brighton and Hove. Over the last 12 months volunteers have been more essential than ever with hundred of new volunteers and mutual aid groups joining forces with local community hubs to develop … Read more
Our communities in Brighton and Hove have done some amazing things to support each other through this extremely challenging year of the Covid-19 pandemic. To showcase some of their amazing achievements TDC has made a series of films with Big Egg Films to investigate how our communities have responded to the ongoing challenges of Covid-19 … Read more
Lockdown has been a real struggle for a lot of people, especially when it comes to financial difficulties. Over the last couple of months, our TDC Youth Team have planned, packed and delivered Food and Warmth Hampers to 59 young people and their families across the city The team preparing to pack the hampers Packed … Read more
The Sussex Violence Reduction Partnership (Sussex VRP) is an innovative partnership tackling the root causes of serious violent crime in Sussex to protect young people and make our communities safer. TDC is one of the Partnership Projects for this initiative working with young people. Our Youth Work Director features in this new film explaining more about … Read more
“Are you like me? You hear the sound of the letter box and you go to retrieve the mail, hoping there might be something more than the usual junk mail?” Lockdown has increased loneliness. Two groups that we know have really been feeling the effects, are young people — who can’t see their friends as … Read more