By Mark Drayton, Community Development Worker for Portslade and Portland Road. The community of Stoneham Park responded quickly to racist graffiti recently, by clearing it up themselves. Nazi graffiti was daubed over the children’s playground in Hove at the end of January on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and disgusted … Read more
Our Coffee & Croissant networking sessions continue to be well attended, with four sessions taking place across the city each month. Service providers use the opportunity to meet others working locally and can find ways to collaborate and share best practice. Dates up until the end of March can be found on our Coffee & … Read more
By Cal Chester, Community Development Support Worker. TDC is currently working in Woodingdean as part of the Ageing Well project. This project sees a variety of organisations from across Brighton and Hove working together to engage with older people in the community, linking them up with community groups in the area or enabling them to … Read more
After years of planning and campaigning, local residents of Bevendean and Moulsecoomb have planted a small orchard of a dozen apple & pear trees on the upper part of the Avenue green for the community to care for, maintain and enjoy. The two planting days this rainy January were attended by more than 40 brave … Read more
Moulsecoomb & Bevendean residents and those who work or use services in the area were welcome to join a series of Planning for Real consultation exercises to have their say and share their ideas for a potential new neighbourhood hub and council housing development in Moulsecoomb. A model of the Hodshrove Lane area, where the … Read more
Ahead of our AGM on 20th february, we invite TDC members to read our annual report for the financial year 2018/19. The report details our objectives and aims as well as providing a strategic overview of some of our activities which we’d like to share with you here on our blog too. The following text … Read more
The REBOOT early intervention project for 11-17 year olds, launched in Sussex in Spring 2019 thanks to support from the Sussex PCC. REBOOT is a personalised, one-to-one package offering support to vulnerable young people to prevent them being exploited into criminal behaviour. We are working alongside three other partner organisations (YMCA DLG, AudioActive and the … Read more
Please join us at our AGM on Thursday 20th February from 6pm at Brighthelm Community Centre. You will have the chance to learn about TDC’s work across Brighton & Hove and to get involved in shaping our plans for the future. For information prior to the AGM, please refer to our 2018/19 accounts → Refreshments … Read more
In November we welcomed a new Chair, Jan Chmiel, to our Board of Trustees. Here are a few words from Jan by way of introduction: “After a number of successful leadership roles in international business the second half of my career has been focused largely on leading ‘not for profit’ organisations in areas of sustainable … Read more
This year, TDC is honoured to have been chosen by Brighton & Hove Buses as one of the official Santa Bus charities. Since November, the Santa Bus has been travelling to different neighbourhoods in the city bringing festive joy and fundraising for Martletts Hospice and 10 other local charities: The MND Association provides care, support and … Read more
It’s been a busy year at TDC, with so much activity within the communities we work with and lots of new projects to get stuck into. We asked our team for their highlights of the year and this is what they said… Then, after you’ve heard from our team, please scroll to the bottom of … Read more
This year, TDC partnered with Friends Centre and Voices in Exile to deliver the Migrant ESOL Support Hub (known as MESH) – a service supporting migrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The programme involves working with people one-to-one, focusing on access to ESOL learning plus signposting and referral to other support services and volunteer opportunities across … Read more