Do you have a great idea for helping people and/or the environment?
Are you interested in finding out what support is on offer to help you
develop your ideas?

FIND OUT MORE AT THIS FREE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP

Right Here Brighton and Hove are offering the following FREE resilience building activities for young people aged 16 - 25 in Brighton and Hove during the month of September 2010.

If you are working with any young people who would like to take part in any of the activities please call:

A wonderful day of celebration and fun for all ages in aid of the conservation fund for Norfolk Square Gardens. Come and enjoy Live Music, Entertainers, Great Food and meet other members of your community on the 15th August from 12 Noon till 6pm.

the Trust for Developing Communities is about to call the first meeting of a network
for small neighbourhood groups at the beginning of October.

You may know about our plans to redevelop the front half of the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton. Over the next six months we will be designing the 2,800 rooms as well as the layout of every department, public space and waiting area in the new buildings.

The annual campaign Love Parks Week at the end of July provides us all with an excellent opportunity to showcase our local green spaces and the resources they need. Please organise local events and issue a press release (templates available here) to promote it. In 2009, the campaign, co-ordinated by national parks charity GreenSpace, saw a record 600 events take place in UK parks with over 400,000 people joining in. The media coverage generated during the week reached almost 20 million people. Further information about Love Parks Week, including details of hundreds of the events already planned this year, can be found at www.loveparksweek.org.uk. Please visit the website and go to the ‘Get involved’ section for promotional materials and resources to help you organise an event.  

To Support Love Parks Week, the National Federation of Parks and Green Spaces have produced two leaflets, ‘speak out for our green spaces’ and ‘standing up for our green spaces’.

These leaflets can be found on our webpage: www.green-space.org.uk/community/nfpgs/resources.php. Please circulate them as widely as possible to all Friends and Users groups, residents associations, voluntary and community groups, local authorities and councillors, MPs, green space workers, trade unions, charities and political organisations in your area. They have been produced by the federation – feel free to adapt for your own use.

Brighton & Hove LINk is inviting residents to come along to their health and well-being event in Brighton on Saturday 24 July from 11am to 3pm.

As well as coming to our event we also have some opportunities:

You are cordially invited to Community Base's 2010 OPEN DAY on MONDAY 5TH JULY from 1pm till the evening.

From 1pm to 4pm is our OPEN HOUSE - a chance to visit most of the 27 charities and community groups with a home at Community Base. During this time we will also be showing films and serving refreshments in our conference room. A full programme will be available on the day.

From 4pm to 5.30pm we will be having an OPEN DISCUSSION entitled REAL HELP FOR REAL PEOPLE - WHY GRASSROOTS, FRONTLINE SERVICES MATTER. Speakers will include CAROLINE LUCAS MP and SARAH FAULKNER of the award winning local charity Assert.

At 5.30pm we'll be having a PARTY! - eat, drink and get on down to bluegrass psychobilly from local stars Chicken Shed Zeppelin.

More information and updates at www.communitybase.org/openday  

If you have any Community Base petition forms - asking Brighton and Hove City Council not to withdraw the discretionary rate relief it has given Community Base since we opened - please return them to Community Base, 113 Queens Road, Brighton BN1 3XG by Monday 5th July. Our petition form can be downloaded from www.communitybase.org/petition.pdf   


Colin Chalmers
director
Community Base
113 Queens Road
Brighton BN1 3XG
www.communitybase.org   

BIG CATERPILLAR'S TEA PARTY

You may or may not be aware of the Big Caterpillar eco-art project that took place last year – it was supported by EBRA and created by my company for Friend’s of St Andrew’s Church. Emily Kingston will be project managing this year and is part of the team for the Norfolk Square event. Emily is an experienced event manager for George Alexander Group Events Division and runs her own freelance event management company.

On the 24th April (Saturday) at 11.30am we will be erecting the Big Caterpillar for the last time as a farewell and thank you photoshoot to all who supported the project in 2009. The Mayor will be in attendance and will say a few words. The respective chairs of FOSAC and EBRA will be invited to say a few words.

Saturday 6th March - 11am till 6pm - The Old Market  - Hove
Community Event for Women & Children (boys up to 14)

Mindfulness + Meditation, Community, Sharing,
Creative Writing, Free Vegan Food

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