As part of the fabulous Ageing Well Festival this year we brought a delightful dance event to Woodingdean with Rosaria Gracia Dance. Local people over 50 were invited to come along and enjoy refreshments, a raffle and a fun seated dance session led by Rosaria. Dance, dance, dance blended gentle stretching exercises with simple dance … Read more
The much-loved annual Tarner Festival was one of so many events that couldn’t take place in 2020. This year the celebration was pushed back to September, where it was finally able to return to the delight of the community. The Festival took place in Tarner Park and featured a live music stage with wide range … Read more
The Brighton Streets project is announced in the Finalists shortlist of the prestigious ‘Children & Young People Now Awards 2021’ in not one, but two categories – the ‘Youth Work Award’ and ‘Partnership Award’!Brighton Streets is a citywide, coordinated detached (street-based) youth work programme led by TDC and delivered by TDC, The Hangleton & Knoll Project and Tarner … Read more
I’m very excited. I can’t wait to get involved with other people and encourage them to get the vaccine. New Peer Educator Israa In an exciting new initiative this week, TDC welcomed three new Peer Educators to work with us on our Vaccine Confidence Programme. The new scheme will see them out and about with … Read more
TDC are offering a fun, social, active and creative sessions to local children and young people over the summer. Food will play a big part of what we do too, with over 660 nutritious meals will be served up to those attending. In Whitehawk we’ve teamed up with Hawks café (find them on Facebook), Albion … Read more
“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