From TDC’s Mark Drayton Over the last year Sarah has been a key player on her estate but also in the wider community. Sarah is Chair of her Resident group but also a vital member of the Phoenix Social Supermarket which has provided thousands of food parcels for her estate and the wider Tarner and … Read more
From TDC’s Sue Sayers Ruth has run the Winter Warmers Reminiscing Group for many years now and it offers a friendly once a month meeting for older people where everyone is encouraged to talk about their memories and listen to each other. She encourages every member to take a small part in helping the meetings … Read more
From TDC’s Emma Reeves Despite lockdown, and everything else, Peter and Michael continued to make sure that the community garden they look after remained open and accessible. Albion Garden is a little oasis in the Tarner area and was used by many different beneficiaries during lockdown including the residents of the extra care scheme next … Read more
From TDC’s Caroline Vitta Lauran is regularly keen to get involved in her community and has taken part in numerous opportunities with us in TDC. In December 2020 she got involved with our Youth Social Action Project and through this supported the Give Street Project donation day in Hanover where she helped with taking donations … Read more
From TDC’s Caroline Vitta In 2018 Gaston was part of a group of local residents in Saltdean who noted the lack of youth provision in the area. After a lot of raising funds and collecting donated resources the Saltdean and Rottingdean Youth Club opened its doors in January 2019. Since day 1, Gaston really has … Read more
From TDC’s Amy Allison Emma lives in Mile Oak and during lock down noticed that the local primary school had started to run a food bank. The teachers were trying to run the food bank as well as their classes and were struggling to run it efficiently. Emma volunteered and started giving out and delivering … Read more
From TDC’s Anke Thurm Jane has been active in her community for years and years – running her local tenant and residents’ association in East Moulsecoomb, connecting her community members and neighbours with each other and working with local groups and services. Since the start of the pandemic, she has gone from collecting donations for … Read more
From TDC’s Tony Silesby Marc has been an exceptional volunteer to the east Brighton neighbourhood for many, many years. Initially working as an apprentice in Hawks community cafe, his friendly nature and desire to help his neighbours was clear. Marc went on to volunteer as a youth worker in the Crew Club and contributing to … Read more
Earlier this month, our MESH and Community Learning projects offered participants the chance to take Probarista training at One Church. MESH provides training and employment advice and opportunities to people from ethnically diverse backgrounds in Brighton and Hove, and this training was a great opportunity to learn a useful skill. In these classes, MESH Members learned from expert trainers … Read more
The Vision of the Project Strengthen Albanians pride and belonging and build aspirations of our younger members. Improve integration in Brighton & Hove community and remove barriers to accessing services Reduce discrimination and improve understanding of Albanian culture in Brighton & Hove community. From our Community Engagement Worker, Sonila Deda In some ways it was … Read more
From Sue Sayers, our Ageing Well Project Manager “A wonderful lady who lives in Woodingdean gave me a Christmas card containing the following poem that she had written. (Included here with her permission).”
“I come to the curiosity club for the nice people. It’s important to make a difference to someone’s life and to help your community”.