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 a pot of youth funding of £20,000 from Brighton & Hove City Council.  This means that projects will have their applications voted on by the potential beneficiaries – young people themselves!

The deadline for online voting is 12 noon on Wednesday 23rd April.

There will then be a voting event at the 67 Centre on Saturday 26th April between 11am and 2pm.  Details can be found on the blogsite, here.

If you would like to check out the applications and (if you are a teenager from Bevendean, Coldean or Moulsecoomb…) cast your vote – then head over to the Big Dish Out 2014 page.

 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 27^th 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 opportunity to experience what it might be like to have dementia, they took part in a workshop to begin to design a toolkit that groups can use to find practical ways to support those with dementia and memory loss and their carers.

Participants reported that they found the event interesting, useful and a good opportunity to network and were encouraged that awareness of dementia was being raised.’

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 Hove to be involved in this project to choose works of art for the exhibition. The exhibition shows some very famous artists and evocative pieces.

The process of local community people becoming the curator’s for an exhibition like this is innovative and has been highly successful.

The exhibition was launched on Friday with speeches from Cllr Bill Randall and Cllr Geoffrey Bowden along with many of the participants who were involved.

You can see members of the group: Saskia Wesnigk-Wood, Dot Martin, Fran Whittington & Angie Pride on our home page photographic ‘slider’.

Find out more about this project at:

http://www.brighton-hove-rpml.org.uk/WhatsOn/Pages/BMAGFromDownstoSea5aprto15jun14.aspx

http://brightonfestival.org/your_visit/beyond_brighton_festival/from_downs_to_sea_a_slice_of_life/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/archive/2014/04/04/11125499.Members_of_the_public_take_over_Brighton_Museum_and_Art_Gallery_for_new_exhibition_From_Downs_To_Sea/?ref=arc

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