The Hive is a Community Interest Company, set up to run a café and community space in Stoneham Park, Hove. They have a function room which seats 35, available to hire for £8.50 per hour.
Their downstairs café space is available to hire in the evenings too.
01273 911010.
The Hive
Stoneham Park,
Hove BN3 5HJ
Due East have launched a new grant for BME and faith groups in the Whitehawk, Manor Farm and Bristol Estate area.
Grants of up to £250 are available for projects that help meet the following objectives :
To apply, you need to complete a short application form and make a 1 minute YouTube video about your project idea. You will also need to attend a public voting event in September or October, before being awarded a grant.
Deadline for applications is 17th September 2015. You can download an application form from the Due East website.
If you want any help or support in developing your project ideas or making your application contact the Serendipity community development team: info@ses-partnership.co.uk.
Brighthelm Church and Community Centre has over 100 chairs available to give away. If you are interested, please contact them directly on 01273 821512.
Are you volunteering for a community group, or receiving benefits and hoping to work in catering? This one day free course run by Community Learning at Brighton & Hove City Council will provide you with a Level 2 Certificate in Food & Hygiene. There is a multiple choice assessment at the end of the course.
This is a one-day course
Course date: Wednesday 30 September
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Venue: Brighton Town Hall, Bartholomew Square. BN1 1JA
Tutor: James Aldcroft
This is a one-day course
Course date: Wednesday 11 November
Time: 9.30am – 4.30pm
Venue: Vallance Community Centre. 2 Conway Court, Clarendon Road. Hove. BN3 3WR (Next to Honeycroft café).
Tutor: James Aldcroft
For more information or to book a place on a course call: 01273 810210
Free places on their courses are for anyone who is:
Deadline: 4 September 2015.
For more information go to: www.bupaukfoundation.org
Mental health underpins health and wellbeing and impacts everyone. For many people mid-life, from the late 20s to early 50s, can be a time of increased challenges, responsibilities and pressures, in their working lives, family lives and relationships.
The Bupa UK Foundation is looking to fund projects that aim to support and improve people’s mental health at this critical life-stage.
The Bupa UK Foundation welcomes expressions of interest from practical projects or initiatives which will have a direct impact on people’s health and well-being, fall clearly into theme of mid-life mental health, and focus one of the following priority areas:
It is expected that projects receiving funding are likely to be delivered within 12 to 18 months.
The Bupa UK Foundation expects to make around 20 grants split across the following levels:
. Larger grants – over £50,000. For projects that have a broad reach and the potential to deliver a sustained impact.
. Medium grants – up to £50,000. For distinct one-off projects, which might include pilots of new models of care or initiatives designed to benefit clearly defined groups.
. Small grants – up to £10,000. For smaller projects delivered at local level to directly benefit a specific group.
Thanks to a generous grant from the Argus Appeal, we now have the following new equipment available for groups in Sussex to hire:
Just get in touch if you want to book any of these items.
Date: Wednesday 16 September, 2015
Time: 6.00-8.00pm
Venue: Rose Room, BMECP Centre, 10 Fleet Street, Brighton BN1 4ZE
This second themed meeting of the new Community Works Governance Network is aimed at any trustee or management committee member who wants to improve their knowledge and skills around managing change as well as to meet others in the same role. The session content will be negotiated with participants on the night and is likely to cover:
* Governing structural change in your organisation
* Identifying and managing cultural change on your committee
* Identifying gaps in skills, knowledge and diversity on your committee
* Recruitment and induction processes.
For more information or to book your place, please visit:
Table Tennis England are offering free table tennis tables to community centres in Brighton & Hove.
The person to contact about this is Keiron Pelling on kieron.pelling@tabletennisengland.co.uk or 07972 222068.
Keiron said:
“I am a table tennis development officer working for Table Tennis England and I have been working with the Brighton table tennis community to increase the opportunities for people to play. This work includes the summer Ping! festival and putting funding towards creating table tennis sessions.
Table tennis is a sport that can be enjoyed by everyone, and most people I speak to say they enjoy playing – but don’t have opportunities to play. It truly is an inclusive sport, attractive to the young and old, able bodied and disabled alike.
To maximise the opportunities to play I have a small budget that allows me to place table tennis tables into places that can make use of them.
How the table gets used is up to you. Whether it is just making it available to use by the community groups that use your venue or organising specific activity around it, I’m happy to work with you to make it work.
There is no catch to this offer, so there are not any hidden costs to you – other than perhaps replacing bats and balls when they need to be replaced in the future.
If you are interested in this offer and would like to find out how table tennis can work for you, please contact me by phone or email and I can provide further information.”
Cllr Emma Daniel, Chair of the Brighton & Hove City Council Neighbourhoods, Communities and Equalities Committee, is offering up surgery-type sessions for any voluntary and community sector groups that would like to meet with her (1:1 or as a group of organisations working on a particular theme or issue). Her next surgery day is 15th September 2015. Meetings will take place at Community Works’ office in Community Base.
To book your appointment, please contact Jennie.Howard@brighton-hove.gcsx.gov.uk
HOPE is the new BME Women organisation providing BME Engagement in relation to Domestic Violence/Abuse across Sussex. HOPE will be launching it’s first Drop-in service on Monday 20th July from 12-2pm at the BMECP Centre, 10a Fleet Street, BN1 4ZE.
They are a multi-lingual group of Black and Minority Ethnic women trained to raise awareness of domestic violence and abuse among women in BME communities across Sussex. They also offer facilitated sessions to community groups.
HOPE stands for:
Help, Open, Protect & Empower BME Women and Girls
For more information please contact the BME Engagement Project Coordinator by email, hanan@hopesussex.org.uk or call 07494330011 (mobile) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.