The Big Dish Out voting event
The big dish-out
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‘The Big Dish Out’ voting event at the 67 Centre this Saturday 26th April- Free Lunch, Ice Cream and Candy Floss !
The Big Dish Out voting event is upon us! Tomorrow is the big day where hoards of local teenagers will descend upon the 67 Centre in Moulsecoomb to vote on how £20,000 of the Council’s Youth budget should be spent locally. The Trust for Developing Communities have been supporting the process by working with the … Read more
The Big Dish Out 2014
The TDC’s Community Workers with Young People have been working furiously over the last few months, supporting a group of local teenagers from Moulsecoomb, Bevendean and Coldean to plan the Big Dish Out 2014. The group, aged from 14 to 19, have been guided through the process of setting up a participatory commissioning process for … Read more
Dementia Awareness Event
Joanna Hill and Sue Sayers are leading on a Clinical Commissioning Group funded project to help the Community & Voluntary Sector become more Dementia friendly. Thursday 27th March saw representatives from community groups and voluntary organisations with an interest in this topic come together at a participatory event. After a selection of speakers and an … Read more
‘From Downs to Sea’ at Brighton Museum’s art gallery
The Trust for Developing Communities’ partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums on a community-curator’s project called ‘Select’, came to fruition on Friday 4th April when a new exhibition ‘From Downs to Sea’ opened in Brighton Museum’s art gallery. TDC’s community development worker Clare Hopkins, has spent the last year supporting people in Portslade and West … Read more
Message from our Chair
“We know that it is the residents in neighbourhoods across the city who are best placed to decide what they need. At TDC we support them to develop their ideas and turn them into action.”
Fabia Bates
Win An iPad Mini in our special website launch competition!
Win An iPad Mini in our special website launch competition! Answer one simple question based on information you can find out from searching our new website and you will be entered into our draw to win an iPad mini donated by Pulborough based company Spellman High Voltage Electronics Ltd. This competition will run for the … Read more
Supporting a Dementia awareness overview for the Bi-lingual Advocacy Service
In September 2014 we launched a Guide for community groups and voluntary organisations who want to become more Dementia Friendly.
Purple People Kitchen, Portslade
We have supported Food Banks in partnership with Fareshare, in three areas of the city. Purple People Kitchen is based in Portslade and has expanded into a café and catering.
‘The Food Bank helps me out at a time when I am finding it hard to pay my bills. I hope that in six months I will be able to look after myself. I like coming to have a chat and something to eat.’
Richard
Multi-cultural Womens Group, Hollingbury
Health Walks – The Hollingbury Multicultural Women’s Group explored a little bit of Hollingbury on foot
‘We can have fun with our friends. If we don’t understand we can get help from our friends – they can help us with Thai words. We can ask one to help the other.’
Tay
From Downs to Sea
An exhibition resulting from the Community Curators project supported by TDC and in partnership with Brighton & Hove Museums, which involved the residents of Portslade and West Hove selecting works of art from the Arts Council Collection.
The project….‘enabled a small group of people to experience something entirely new and life-changing’
Wendy, Portslade resident
Wild Park Youth Festival
161 young people attended/
“This [event] is good because it’s for us. We always have to go into town to find fun stuff to do”
Jade, 13