On 18th March, we brought together a variety of health and community service providers to bring the Warm Welcome campaign to a close by providing essential information, advice and guidance to our North community members to get help throughout the last winter weeks, attended by around 40 people from local communities, and 8 services and organisations.
This year, Wild Park has had a big year turning 100 years old with a lot of projects to celebrate: a new Rainscape, a community orchard and a new adventure...
Watch this short video about Nick’s fantastic work with his local community.
Friends at BMECP began to emerge in 2023 with the purpose of bringing community activities for BME people back into the BMECP Centre. They had their AGM in October during a combined MOSAIC and Ageing Well Event. Their aim was to increase wellbeing and a sense of belonging for BME people and to be run by BME people. Meetings were held every Friday to get activities off the ground. There had already been a sewing group and it had fallen away so this was one of the key things they wanted. There had also been a yoga class, so this was also a focus.
The Community Summer Event at Robert Lodge was on a beautiful August day, with sunshine, food and activities in both the communal gardens and in the community rooms. This event was to celebrate the reopening of the community rooms, bring people together and share information around health and wellbeing.
In 2022/23 TDC’s Healthy Neighbourhood Fund gave out over 90 grants, supporting over 4,000 people.
We supported local community partners to form panels and make funding decisions, giving support to projects right across the city. In each area local communities decided how the grants were awarded.
We couldn't do what we do without volunteers supporting our work. Today we'd like to take a moment to thank some of them, and also to pay tribute to all the...
It’s Volunteer’s Week and TDC will be celebrating the work of volunteers who do so much to support communities in Brighton and Hove.
The Brighton Repair Cafe is one of the longest running repair cafe’s in the UK. The monthly event has been running for over ten years at various locations and now has a home at the newly repainted St George’s Hall in Moulsecoomb.
Last winter TDC partnered with BELTA, The Old Boat and Hollingdean Development Trust to run a four week pilot of Community Living Rooms. Community Living Rooms are drop-in warm spaces for local communities to help alleviate the Cost of Living crisis by providing a place people could go during the day, with relaxing activities, drinks, food and other support.