Brighton community resources

This article is an offshoot of Brighton community action focusing on community resources and assets. Resources such as networks, events and community involvement (people and relationships) can be considered as primary resources. Also resources are the activism and physical assets (or what citizens value), such as green spaces and biodiversity, cycle lanes, food initiatives, etc, from the other Brighton community pages.

Food activism

• Very Local Food Hubs Brighton, not-for-profit community food project, available to everyone living in Moulsecoomb, Bevendean & Bates Estate. added 15:51, 31 March 2025 (UTC)
• Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, not for profit organisation that works for better food for the city now and in the future. "By better food, we mean food that is healthy, affordable, accessible and produced within environmental limits. We believe by working in partnership Brighton & Hove can achieve a sustainable food system."... Brighton & Hove Food Partnership Press release, 8th February 2010
• Brighton Open Market
• Brighton Permaculture Trust
• The Food Waste Collective on facebook
• The Real Junk Food Project Brighton
• Scoop, student-run food co-operative, University of Sussex on facebook
• Sussex Roots, University of Sussex on facebook

Policies

• Planning Advice Note, Food Growing and development, Sep 2011 brighton-hove.gov.uk

Community energy

• Brighton Energy Cooperative
• Brighton & Hove Energy Services Co-operative Ltd

Housing and land

• SEASALT Housing Cooperative, added 13:45, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
• Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust, added 13:45, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
• Brighton-based student housing co-op secures first property, Jul 24, 2021...thenews.coop
• A cooperative model of homes for students, collectively managed and at affordable rents. SEASALT in Brighton shows the way. Jul 20, 2021...thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative

Social inclusion

• Brighton Unemployed Centre Families Project
• Emmaus Brighton & Hove, situated in Portslade village on the South coast of England, four miles from the centre of Brighton. It is the largest Emmaus community in the UK, and its "Second-hand Superstore" is the largest second-hand shop in the South of England....

Community resources

Free stuff

• Brighton...Land of Free Things! on facebook

Citizens data initiative

• Council data, Brighton & Hove City Council, (open data)

Apps for sustainability

• My Urban Angel

Arts, sport and culture

Our Future City, video: Our Future City #BeWell Programme on vimeo

ONCA, "ONCA's mission is to inspire creativity and positive action in the face of environmental change."

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

• Brighton Repair Café
• Magpie Recycling, worker cooperative
• Green A - Z, guide to Reduce Re-use Recycle, information from the Green Centre
• Brighton - GreenCycle Sussex
• Brighton 'Waste House': The House That Kevin Built, University of Brighton, Faculty of Arts