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  • Active Student works with students at the University of Brighton to find them rewarding, safe and supported volunteering opportunities within the local community. Active Student supports volunteers throughout their volunteering experience.
  • Enriching the lives of children and young people, in particular those from disadvantaged backgrounds, through outdoor adventure and education events run by previously unemployed adults and young people.
  • Albion in the Community the charitable arm of Brighton & Hove FC, delivers a variety of social initiatives, including disability, education, health, social inclusion & sport related programmes targeting crime prevention, education, health & employment.
  • Our mission is to work together for the transition from fossil fuel dependency to local resilience.
  • We provide a healthier, more sustainable & local food system for the city. We deliver cookery, growing + healthy weight programmes.
  • This voluntary local group is part of the National Friends of the Earth network. We campaign to improve the environment in our own backyard, as well as joining in with campaigns nationally and internationally.
  • We are a council of older people directly elected by citizens over 60 in Brighton & Hove. Our aim is to represent and further the interests of older people in association with the City Council and other organisations.
  • 'WDM campaigns to tackle root causes of world poverty. We lobby decision makers, work alongside people in the developing world and involve local people through stalls, meetings & media activity'.
  • We are a 'Friends Of' group. Benfield Local Nature Reserve.
  • The Bevendean Local Action Team empowers local residents to reduce anti-social behaviour and the fear of crime, in order to enhance local community safety and well-being.
  • Brighton & Hove is pioneering 10:10 city , with it's own campaign aiming to encourage everyone in theis diverse community to reduce carbon emmisions 10% at a time.
  • To carry out countryside tasks related to nature conservation and improving public access, usually under professional guidance. The work involves various activities, including scrub clearance, path maintenance, woodland management, etc.
  • A group of persons, of all ages and from all walks of life, who are dedicated to improving the quality of life for many people less fortunate than themselves. Our motto "we serve" sums up the aims of Lions worldwide.
  • As Development Education Centre BPEC provides information and education about peace and environment related issues by working together with all parts of the community. The resource centre includes over 2000 books, teaching packs, leaflets, films and art.
  • Singing and performance training for young people aged 8-18. Includes: vocal lessons; stage performance; recording; microphone technique; song writing.
  • Aims: to conserve and improve the amenities of Brighton & Hove. Encourages the preservation of architecturally interesting buildings and supports appropriate new developments.
  • We work with and on behalf of all residents groups within Brunswick & Regency.
  • Meet with the City Council and the Bus Companies to voice members concerns and to receive updates on routes, timetables, bus stops, shelters, raised kerbs, bus lanes etc. Aim to influence transport policy in the city.
  • CMPCA delivers a quarterly newsletter and holds regular meetings to provide residents with information and a forum for discussion on a range of issues affecting the area.
  • Provides a home for, and support to, community and voluntary groups in Brighton and Hove.
  • Provision of accessible, safe and affordable transport to community groups, voluntary sector organisations and individuals with mobility difficulties.
  • Facilitating arts and growing based environmental workshops and eco-clubs for schools and community groups.
  • Ditchling Museum offers people of all ages and abilities the opprotunity toa ccess its collection through workshops and participatory outreach project led by professional artists. Activities aim to encourage creativity and to develop practical skills.
  • We run a range of activities within our church programme: from mid week youth clubs to Sunday clubs; Youth camps to Sports events; womens fellowship to men's curry nights; weight loss groups to running clubs. We even have our own greengrocers.
  • Working to create sustainable and equitable food systems.
  • Provision of supported housing and move-on housing to single homeless.
  • Formed in 2004, our aim is to improve the physical environment of the Square and surrounding area, to work with similar groups to improve social and community awareness.
  • Liaises with the Council to enhance and develop the park. Raises funds to do this by social events and subscriptions. Produces quarterly newsletters. Does planting, combats graffiti and vandalism as well as many community events.
  • Friends of Hollingbury & Burstead Woods volunteers meet once a month to help maintain & improve local woodland. We pick up litter, plant native trees & flowers, clear pathways & promote public access to the woods. See our website or email us for more info
  • FN! provides furniture and other household effects at low cost to those who need them. All welcome. FN! also provides accredited and informal training to all unemployed and socially excluded groups.
  • A free online community for giving and getting unwanted goods for free. Reduces waste and increases reuse. We connect up people locally who have things they don't want with people who can use those things.
  • 1) Community Development Work 2) Youth work (e.g. weekly street work, sexual health clinic, community projects, holiday activities) 3) The operation of the H&K Information Technology (HaKIT) programme providing free & low cost IT training.
  • The Hanover Community Association is a local charity for the benefit of the Hanover neighbourhood. We run the Hanover Centre, providing meeting spaces for classes, groups and organisations. We support the Hanover Day street festival.
  • We offer a range of activities for all ages. Two community rooms available to hire. Wheelchair accessible. Fully equipped kitchen. Hollingdean Development Trust is responsible for managing the building.
  • Hove Civic Society encourages high standards of architecture and town planning and the conservation of buildings of historic interest in Hove.
  • The PDS supports the voluntary sector with a range of services including: Contracting, Fundraising, Monitoring and Evaluation, Facilitation, Partnership Building, Business Planning, Business Development and Human Resource.
  • IT Skills 4 Rural Kenya recycles unused computers to villages in Kenya. We also train volunteers from Brighton in IT skills before sending them to our assigned cillages in Kenya.
  • Represent those living in Kebbell Lodge and High Street. Promotes tenant's & leaseholder's rights, the maintenance & improvement of their housing conditions, amenities & environment. Organises social activities. Works towards good relations in the area.
  • Part of the wider City in Bloom competition, and enters the South & South East in Bloom every year. Brightening up Kemp Town for everyone.
  • Knoll Comunity Association actively operates in the area of the Knoll Estate in West Hove. The Community Association has a long lease on St. Richard's Church and Community Centre which houses many Community and charitable groups.
  • Community/Voluntary organisation overseen by board of Trustees/Directors. We raise funds to deliver waste, recycling and sustainability-related teaching and learning activities, such as our new Community Allotment.
  • Locally: Providing advice, mentoring, seminars, film screenings, festive events, and weekly radio shows for the Mediterranean community in Brighton and Hove. Internationally: The same as above in 41 countries in and around the Mediterranean region.
  • Volunteer run art & craft group for all ages inc. Splats!! & Splodges!! experimenting with different materials & having fun. Drop in Friday pm sessions for 16+ at St Francis of Assisi church, Moulsecoomb Way. Just call in & join us for tea & coffee.
  • Promotes the benefit of the inhabitants of the North Laine area of Brighton by associating the local authorities, voluntary organisations and inhabitants in a common effort to improve the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.
  • We are a group of adults & children who run a large plot at the Mile Oak allotments. We work there as often as we can & plant, weed and harvest, have picnics & share friendship & knowledge. We teach the children a lot about plants & creatures.
  • Passing It On are a charity run by young people to help build schools in Africa. It has grown steadily over the past 5 years from 2 guys with a bucket to a team of mostly volunteers, who work tirelessly, believing that every child deserves an education.
  • Project V is the University of Sussex Student Union's volunteering scheme. We provide students and staff with volunteering placements in the local community that are rewarding, safe and supported.
  • Radio Free Brighton is an entirely volunteer run and managed community radio station dedicated to informative programming and local news and opinions.
  • Somerset Day Centre founded in 1980 provides supportive social & recreational day services for people over the age of 65 years. We provide transport, lunch, entertainment, activities & trips to local area.
  • We refurbish donated IT equipment and give free upgraded systems to anyone in receipt of Disability Living Allowance, Attendance Allowance or Permanent Incapacity Benefit.
  • Advice and assistance in an unhurried atmosphere. Generalist advice service including debt, bankruptcy, welfare benefits (including the completion of Disability Living Allowance forms) and family matters.
  • The Big Lemon runs local public bus services on biodiesel from locally sourced waste cooking oil. We also offer buses and coaches for hire for all occasions.
  • We create the kind of wealth which money can't buy.
  • A small UK charity aims to advance education and relieve poverty in India. Current projects are based around the rural village of Kanji in the state of Tamil Nadu.
  • Provides community development training, consultancy & research services and support to neighbourhood and local groups in Brighton & Hove and the South East region.
  • Drop in centre for parents/carers&children aged 0-4 term time, 0-12 school holidays. Open mon-fri (mon 10-2pm for Jumping Gym; Tues,Wed Thurs&Fri open 9-3pm for Carden Tots playgroup).
  • Community centre providing services for the local community, especially the elderly. Computer classes, craft afternoons, coffee mornings, memories group. Run by committee of local people.
  • WILPF campaigns and works to raise consciousness on issues of peace and social justice. Internationally, WILPF has consultative status with the United Nations, ECOSOC, UNCTAD & UNESCO
  • Support for the over 50s to enhance self-esteem and facilitate job search and volunteering activities. Workshops, social events, education opportunities and information provided. Guest speakers from relevant organisations offer advice and support options.