Bike train comes to Brighton

Lewes Road is one of the busiest roads in Brighton and Hove. In an effort to reduce the number of cars a procession of cyclists known as a bike train, will journey from The Level to Falmer during rush hour.

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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Community safety teams, front line officers and agencies from across the UK are coming to Brighton & Hove on 4 March to find out about Brighton & Hove City Council’s partnership working in managing the city’s night time economy.

Homeless residents in Brighton & Hove have a new voicemail service so they can hear about getting a home, GP appointments as well as training and job opportunities.

Brighton & Hove City Council is backing a new scheme to provide 100 free voicemail accounts where residents gain a 01273 number and collect messages from any phone using a 0800 number.

The VoiceMail4All service - provided by homelessness charity St Mungo’s on behalf of charity Tech4All - has been used by more than 2,400 people in London since its launch in July 2005.

Forty talking bus stops have now been installed for blind and partially sighted passengers across the city. Twenty recently installed talking bus stops have been provided to go with the 20 that Brighton & Hove City Council introduced in 2007.

Brighton & Hove’s initiative has provided a dozen new units at Churchill Square (stops B, G and H); St James’s Street; Queens Road near the Clock Tower; Sea Life Centre; Lewes Road near to the bottom of Elm Grove; North Street, Old Steine (stop U); the Royal Sussex County Hospital (opposite the Eye Hospital going east); Eastern Road/Gala Bingo Hall and Elm Grove/Brighton General.

Community Energy Wind Turbine Projects

Come and get involved - open meeting
Monday 22nd Feb 8pm - 9.30pm
upstairs at the Caroline of Brunswick
(Ditchling Rd opp the Level)

Find out how Scottish wind turbine pioneer Hugh Piggot has created a
simple and cheap system, often from recycled materials, for self made
wind turbines. He has made possible thousands of practical wind turbines
across the globe, often in the worlds most impoverished places.

Vertigirls is a community group founded in Feb 2008 by three women with an
assortment of physical and mental health issues that feel passionate about
sharing the benefits that rock climbing has given them with other women. We
provide subsidised beginners rock climbing courses for women consisting of two 3
hour training sessions with full instruction and equipment provided in a safe,
supportive, non-competitive and non-judgemental environment. The courses are not
about being super fit but more about trying something new, acheiving something
you thought impossible and having fun with new friends.

FREE service being offered by Impact
Initiatives to all charities,social enterprises, and community groups whose
turnover is below £35,000 per year.

We are offering one to one support in the following areas:

Setting up accounts systems
Setting up Budgets
Sorting out account systems that have got in a mess and need straightening up
Accounting for grants - or wishing to apply for grants (funders will often want
to see proper accounting of finances)

The Robin Hood Tax campaign is a movement bringing together dozens of organisations that work to reduce poverty in the UK and overseas, and campaign to tackle climate change. They have come together during the economic crisis to campaign for a new deal between banks and society.

Following a recent Government announcement, charities and other not-for-profit organisations will no longer be exempt from paying a licence for playing recorded music within their own premises from April next year .

The Government’s own figures suggest that this will cost voluntary and community organisations up to £20 million a year. This is an incredible amount of money, which should be used to benefit the people and causes our organisations work for. Instead it will go into the pockets of recording companies.