Healthy Neighbourhood Fund 2021/22 Review

In 2021/22 TDC’s Healthy Neighbourhood Fund gave out over 90 grants, supporting 4,000 people.

We supported local community partners to form panels and make funding decisions, giving support to projects right across the city. In each area local communities decided how the grants were awarded.

The grants focus on healthy living: 24 will support healthy starts for children & young people, 19 will improve mental health & wellbeing, 17 will support healthy ageing, 16 will increase active living, 16 will reduce loneliness & isolation, 14 will improve nutrition and 2 will encourage reduction in smoking and drinking alcohol.

Bevendean Food Bank £500

Supporting healthy eating & cooking by investing in cooking equipment and healthy food for people attending the Foodbank.

Fernee Forest Club £500

Friday Feel-Good sessions to improve mental wellbeing by coming together in the local woodland, running peer-to-peer support, physical activities, healthy food.

Friends of Bevendean Down £200

Supports volunteers to maintain local natural habitat with tools, learning sessions around how to keep Bevendean Down sustainable and accessible.

Friends of Bevendean School £500

Tree planting and wellbeing activities for primary school children.

Lotus Yoga £500

Weekly low-cost yoga for physical and mental wellbeing.

Local Wild Spaces £500

Health Walks through local green spaces on specific themes.

Arts Collective £500

To engage adults in weekly social and arts and crafts activities to reduce loneliness and isolation.

Benditlikebuddha £200

To provide opportunity for increased physical activity for older people

East Brighton Community Food Group £500

To increase awareness and local participation of organic food production and sustainability.

Health Kitchen £200

To provide healthy meals and provide workshops for cooking from raw ingredients.

Making Our Mark £500

To provide opportunity for young people to come together and experience a range of creative and learning experiences.

Manor Gym £500

To help deliver our community Xmas event with a range of family activities.

Whitehawk Boxing Gym £500

To utilise boxing to benefit the physical and mental health of young people.

Whitehawk Hill Community Allotment £500

To teach home education families how to grow their own healthy food – and provide facility to come together to do this.

Whitehawk United FC £500

Whitehawk United was set up in May 21 to provide community football for men of all abilities so the many positive physical and emotional benefits of engaging in sport and belonging could be experienced by all and not just a few elite sportsmen.

Coldean Youth Club £200

Free sessions to young people in the local community such as cooking, art and craft.

Intergenerational Supper Club £350

Monthly Intergenerational Supper Club.

New Larchwood Residents Association £300

Christmas music session with refreshments and community transport for trips.

Coldean Community Organisation PAGE £200

Coldean PAGE (Plan for Activities, Groups & Events).

Coldean Women's Group £200

Physical exercise and advice, massage, meditation, and mindfulness.

Knit N Knatter £180

Knitting Social Group. Knitting materials and a group outings.

CVCA Over 50s Group £500

Monthly activities for older people locally including themed activities and trips out.

Table Tennis Project £500

Expanding the project to buy more community equipment and offer coaching in community setting for all ages.

Honey Collective £500

Expansion of the project to recruit local volunteers, care for the honey hives and providing education opportunities for children and young people. Also increasing & diversifying production of products coming from the community hives.

Games Project £250

A monthly games night to support community inclusion and lessen isolation.

Orchard Garden Project £300

Volunteers working together to identify ways to green the environment for the wider community and involve the community for well-being.

Run-A-Mile £250

A project which supports young people in take part in sports and have a healthy lifestyle.

Hangleton and Knoll Multicultural Women's Group £500

Free Weekly Bollywood Dance Classes and Weekly Yoga Classes (Online).

The Big Munch £500

Weekly free family lunch club in Knoll Park during school holidays. Providing healthy lunches and arts activities.

UK Egyptian Coptic Association £500

We ran tutoring classes, fortnightly Family meetings and activities like Art, String art and cookery classes. We ran a regular programme of cookery classes on zoom & live on our Facebook page once a week covering everything from patisserie to fermentation, Italian & Egyptian Food.

Stammering Support Group £500

We are a long-term support group, and the funding is used to cover venue costs for our monthly meetings and website costs. A small amount is used for Speech and Language Therapist who specialises in stammering therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

Young People Safe in Summer £500

Promotional and educational materials to support our safe in the summer campaign on the Youth Bus. We have delivered 13 targeted sessions over the summer at Hove Park, Hove Lagoon, Mile Oak Park and in addition locally around Hangleton and Knoll during the delivery of our Summer Programme. The Youth Team engaged with young people in constructive conversations around keeping safe (inc Covid) and handing out kits with sun cream and water bottles.

Indian Futures £500

We ran 2 monthly creative workshops between October 2021 and March 2022; a total of 6 Monoprinting classes and 5 Textiles Art classes. All 11 classes were held in person at St Richard’s Church and Community Centre for 2 hours.

Beauty of Clay Persian Tile Workshop £500

We ran 2 monthly creative workshops between October 2021 and March 2022; a total of 6 Monoprinting classes and 5 Textiles Art classes. All 11 classes were held in person at St Richard’s Church and Community Centre for 2 hours.

Youth Bank Street Dance £500

Free weekly Street Dance classes for young people aged 11-16 and up to age 25 with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Tutor and venue funded. Four young people danced in a Christmas show in December 2021 in front of an audience of 500 people across 2 performances at Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA).

Shape Up £286.20

Weekly one-hour subsidised exercise classes suitable for all abilities at St Richard’s Community Centre which we promoted across the whole community.

OBCCA £250

After School group for kids aged 5-16yrs, including activities and homework support.

7th Hollingbury and Patcham Brownies £122

‘She Rallies' new sport trial project to introduce young women and girls to tennis.

Ironclad Creative/The Writer's Space £178

Two hour writing retreat for local people to learn new skills.

Carden PTA £250

Equipment for forest school activities to bring more outdoor learning and activities to young pupils at the school.

Edge £250

Zoom/Hollywood Bowl/snacks.

5th Patcham Brownies £200

Celebrate 65 years of Brownies by bringing young people together with educational and fun activities.

1st and 5th Patcham Guides £250

Weekend Sleepover experience for young people.

B-RIGHT-ON Basketball £250

February open sessions in half term to encourage new users and low cost activity for parents. Bibs and Balls will also be purchased.

Amiche Quartet £250

Bringing music to communities in an educational and therapeutic setting. Young people and local people will get to experience instruments.

The World Food Project £500

Hollingdean Wednesdays - cooking & eating sessions, workshops to sing and play music together and poetry & creative writing workshops.

Hollingdean News Active Living Listing £500

Hollingdean News would like to gain funding for a single full page in each issue to be a dedicated sports and healthy-living activities listings.

Growing Hollingdean Lynchet Close Community Garden £463.77

Bring neighbours together to create a community garden for Lynchet Close.

Ceramics Workshop for Carers £500

Ceramics workshops will be focused on creating a space of calm, freedom and creativity.

Hollingdean Knitting group £500

Social knitting group.

Around the Fire £500

Women and Girls Mentoring Community Group

Craftea and Lindfield Ct £500

Crafts activities and tea in sheltered accommodation. Reduces isolations and improves mental health of members attending.

Laburnam Grove Art Group £477.05

Weekly Art Club at sheltered accommodation.

Transformational Yoga £500

A 10-week introductory course into Vajrasati yoga.

Boys Brigade £300

Equipment & consumables for clean-up days.

Chomp Moulsecoomb £300

Healthy, nutritious food for 4 chomp family holiday sessions for up to 50 people.

Families Group at St George's Hall £300

Offer regular social family sessions for play, peer-to-peer support, activities and food.

Flamenco Group £300

Bring people back together for regular Flamenco dance sessions.

Friday Friends £300

Christmas party in person for members of the Friday Friends Lunch Club for people 50+

Sunflower Support Group £300

Wellbeing session for parents of children with additional needs.

Higher Bevendean Advent Trail £85

To help bring people out of their houses, re-connect with each other and their neighbourhood.

Metamorphosis Art Group £300

Brings people who enjoy art and yoga together for regular, informal sessions to connect and improve physical and mental wellbeing.

Moulsecoomb Community Market £300

15 slow cookers for local households on low-income, to improve healthy eating/cooking.

Craven Vale and Pankhurst Over 50s Community Group £400

Older people regular events.

Pankhurst Community Pantry £450

Items to support peoples access to the community shop.

Pankhurst Planter £133

Spring Planting Day.

Friends of Hove Lagoon £500

To run clean-up sessions twice a month for volunteers and to equip these and the gardening days.

Friends of Stoneham Park £434

Park Tidy & other events, e.g. a free open cinema.

Friends of Wish Park £500

Monthly gardening and tidy sessions followed by social activity.

Hove Surf Life Saving Club £500

HSLSC are run solely by volunteers and are looking to train up at least four of their volunteer lifeguards to become Level 2 Coaches.

Secret Garden Group £500

Weekly gardening sessions followed by social activity.

Friends of Vale Park £500

To run activities and a summer event in the park over the coming year.

West Hove Scout Group £500

Sports equipment to run healthy activities at the weekly sessions.

Mile Oak FC £500

6 week football for the community, an opportunity for some to try football for the first time.

Fresh Start £270

4 history walks for older people and to continue to develop packs & resources for families.

Portslade People £260

3 cookery classes for children over the summer.

Community Basketball Initiative £480

Coaching and social sessions for young people at risk of exposure to harmful activities.

Clay Club £490

Pottery workshops for all in the Albion Hill Area.

Dorset Mews Residents Group £250

Greening project in the communal area Dorset Mews to develop and improve the Mews Garden.

Exploring Senses CIC £500

Digital Arts Club – free weekly 3D Pen sessions for older people, either online or in person if safe. 3D Pen Club for 8–12-year-olds – weekly 3D pen sessions.

Fibroflys Support for People with Fibromyalgia 

Educational materials for improved health, understanding and well-being of people living with Fibro. Health journals for members to record how feelings and develop and share effective strategies for managing and maintaining health and wellbeing.

Leach Court Social Club £500

‘Christmas Cheer’ for isolated and socially distanced residents and raising awareness of health information and support over Christmas and New Year.

Patching Lodge £500

Movement to Music – Weekly Gentle Exercise sessions for older people.

Together Easier (Hungarian Women's Group) £300

An event celebrating bringing families and children together post covid to re-build community and to share experiences through food, and historical discussion.

Winter Warmers Reminiscence Group £250

Christmas Card Making – November Christmas Party & Quiz - December.

Woodingdean Wilderness Group £250

Scything and Beebank planting.

Dementia Group £250

Support group for people living with dementia.

Woodingdean Fundraisers £350

“Grow Your Own” Day – 30 April 2022

Woodingdean Horticultural Society £250

Christmas Lunch.

Friday Drop in Tots til 12 £250

Family Counselling.

Four Deans Stroke Club £250

Covid Vehicle Screen Divider.

Woodingdean Food Hub £250

Hub Grub Cookery Book.