Join us for a family fun afternoon of creativity from Arts & Crafts with Kidzone Art Club to dancing with our DJ & Disco. And lots of free treats for everyone. For more information contact Shirley: hdtrustee@hotmail.com or 01273 236160.
FREE Contemporary Dance Club for children aged 7–13, running during school term time only.
Mondays, 3:30pm – 4:30pm, Main Hall, Hollingdean Community Centre
The club is proudly supported by Ceyda Tanc Dance Company and Hollingdean Development Trust.
Sign up now to start on Monday 14 September 2026.
To book a place or find out more, contact Shirley: hdtrustee@hotmail.com or 01273 236160.
A beginners build your own game club with GameForge Guild, for young creators, no experience needed. Kids learn real coding fundamentals by building, testing, improving, problem solving, sharing a playable game of their own and having fun. Beginners welcome, learn real skills for the future, hands on projects, small cohorts with big ideas. Future term-time cohort details are confirmed before booking.
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Thank you to the Hollingdean Development Trust for designing the Heart of Hollingdean Summer Newsletter 2026. Read and take part in New route 20 Bus Survey. Updates from Councillor Mohammed Asaduzzaman on Nettleton Court and Dudeney Lodge. A pesto recipe from Anna & Karen part of the World Food Project. Read about 19a Gallery and Hollingdean Wholefoods, Community Support Hubs, What’s On at the community centre, update on our Climate for Communities event day. See events on this summer. Read about what’s happening in Two Trees Community Gardens and Growing Hollingdean. Useful information of names and phone numbers of people who can help.
Thank you to the Hollingdean Development Trust for designing the Heart of Hollingdean Summer Newsletter 2026.
Read the newsletter, get involved, and discover what’s happening across Hollingdean this summer.
Our newsletter is delivered by volunteers, and we’re looking for more people who can help four times a year. Each delivery is a short walk around your local neighbourhood. Delivering around 50 newsletters takes approximately 45 minutes, making it a simple way to support your community. If you can help with deliveries, please contact Shirley through the contact page.
We’re also looking for volunteers to write articles and help put the newsletter together. If you’d like to get more involved in your community, we’d love to hear from you. Please get in touch with Shirley.
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You may or may not know that the Community Centre hosted a public community meeting with Brighton & Hove Buses to discuss the planned changes of the local route going to and from Hollingdean. The new route went ahead with very little consultation. Commercial Director Nick Hill advised us at the meeting to contact their Customer Service team to notify of any issue you have experienced.
Based on this we have complied our own short survey for you to share your views. Please take a moment to complete the survey, link below.
Link to our short 10 question survey here, thank you for your time. Please share!
Customer services team are open from 0600 until 2200 Mondays to Fridays, 0800 until 2200 Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. You can contact them directly via social media on Facebook or X, call us on 01273 886200 or email us at info@buses.co.uk
Need a link to the new 20 bus timetable, click link here.
Two Trees Community Garden is one of 19 gardens taking part in Brighton & Hove Community Garden Month – Route to Roots. Click here for details of other gardens you can visit by bus. This is a city-wide programme and each garden will have it own character. Other gardens are open on various weekends throughout June.
Visit Two Tree’s home page to find out how to access the garden by clicking here. Beware our pathways in the garden are uneven and only made up of rough grass, we are slowly making the pathways smoother, if you would like to help dig out paths, please chat to Mel.
There will be access to Hollingdean Community Centre toilets. Local shops nearby for refreshments and picnic tables in the shade.
Our 50 bus has changed to the number 20. Getting from the town centre has also changed to the Imperial Arcade C7 bus stop and then heads north to the station. Or you can catch the 20 on North Road in the North Laines at Wagamama’s and it heads to London Road shops. Click here for the timetable.
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Hollingdean Community Centre is pleased to be able to offer local support at our Hub events open to everyone for free. The next event is Families, Children & Summer Wellbeing, 9th July 2026, 12.30-2.30pm. Sun, safety and hydration, oral health demonstrations for kids and back to school immunisation. If you can’t make Hollingdean pop along to Hollingbury at the Old Boat Community Centre.
Also including Pay-as-you-feel lunch from Real Junk Food Cafe, blood pressure and bookable health checks (can be prebooked contact the Community Centre for more information) and social prescribing from Together Co.
At our last session, Thursday 12 June 2026, we were able to offer the community free ear checks and cleaning if needed. 23 people benefited from this service and without the hubs this would not have been possible.
Thanks to Brijesh and Jay for giving there time and resources.
Part of the Climate of Communities project is to seek and hear the voices of parts of the community not normally reached. Everyone’s environment voices is helping to change that. You don’t need to be an expert. Your lived experience matters. Through Voices, you’ll be supported to share your perspective, contribute to public debate, and help ensure decisions reflect real life. We’re looking for 25 participants from communities often left out of environmental conversations to share their experiences, build confidence, and help shape change. To find out more click here.
An online Q&A session for anyone interested in learning more about the Everyone’s Environment: Voices programme.
Hollingdean Community Centre is looking for more volunteers to help deliver the Newsletter. We have a number of roads that have no one to deliver the Hollingdean Newsletter, these are:
Please contact Linda on heartofhollingdean@hotmail.com or Shirley at the Community Centre.
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Our Celebration Day was the launch of Hollingdean Development Trust’s Climate in the Community project. It was a fantastic day for the residents to come and find out about all the green projects going on in the area. We where joined by Brightstore, BHESCO, Tech Takeback, Brighton Borrowers, Growing Hollingdean – Two Tree Community Garden, Hollingdean Repair Cafe, and local artist Karen Tilley making paper pom-poms. Including a yummy lunch provided by Sussex Surplus and a great song written for the event by the Hollingdean Song Writers.
A big thank you to our local councillor and current Mayor of Brighton & Hove Theresa Fowler for supporting our event. See what she said here.
The community came together and strengthened local connections, actively supporting each other, sharing helpful resources, and engaging in the exciting events happening in Hollingdean. For example Tech Takeback took 17 referrals for devices to be repurposed. We hope this will lead to digital awareness courses in Hollingdean.
Watch out for the next stage of this community project. If you would like to be involved please contact Polly on hollclime@hotmail.com
‘Together We Grow‘ by Happen Films, tells the inspiring story of a thriving hub helping to build resilience into its local community by farming in urban backyards, sewing with recycled materials, repairing bikes – you name it, Common Unity is doing it!
Chi – general repairs including wood, sharpening tools and knives, bicycles.
Gabrielle – general repairs including textiles/sewing, bicycles.
John – general repairs including electrical.
Ralph – General repairs including mechanical, electrical/electronic, computers.
You can view the weekly events and activities at Hollingdean Community Centre on our “What’s On” page here click here.
Funded by Climate for Communities click here for more information, meet the people involved.
Information about accessibility at Hollingdean Community Centre click here.
The council is inviting residents to share their views on a potential change to household rubbish collections in a citywide survey and engagement events. Over the past two years, the waste and recycling service in Brighton & Hove has been transformed. Free food waste collections are now available across the city, and plastic pots, tubs and trays have been added to recycling collections. Thanks to everyone’s efforts locally, more than 1,700 tonnes of food waste have already been collected, and the refuse and recycling crews now routinely collect around 99% of planned collections and are working to get this down to zero.
We are now seeing the amount of waste in the refuse bins fall significantly, so the council is considering introducing less frequent household rubbish collections for households with their own wheelie bins. This will not effect weekly food waste, medical waste collections or communal on-street services in the city centre and shared bins in flats.
Residents can have their say in two ways – by completing the online survey (takes about 5 minutes) on the council’s Your Voice platform or by attending one of the engagement events. This survey ends 20th May 2026. We will share the date for these shortly. We will be doing social media posts which it would be helpful if you could like, share or comment on. Thank you.
Click here if you are unsure what you can and can’t recycle in Brighton & Hove Bins
Easy to use website for other recycling places e.g. soft plastics – https://www.recyclenow.com
Furniture / clothes / books / toys / kitchenware etc. at Shabitat
Repair Café at the Hollingdean Community Centre, 1st Saturday of the month, 2-5pm, FREE. We welcome both repairees and repairers in a friendly and collaborative environment in which we can reduce waste, share and learn new skills. We want to give your broken items we own a second lease of life! We offer advice and basic repairs and maintenance. Some typical fixes: clothing, zips, simple bike repair; small electrics; basic electronics; simple computer; phone repair / advice.
Come and join us at Hanover Action‘s ‘wildlife gardening’ workshop and find out what you can do to make your garden wildlife-friendly. We also have a special guest speaker Steve Geliot (renowned local artist, and creator of Starling City), and a host of child-friendly activities including:
Guest Speaker: Steve Geliot (associate ecology expert, local artist, wildlife cameraman and creator of Starling City). Steve’s a proponent of Dark Skies and reducing light pollution as well as being co-founder of ‘Save Our Starlings’. Instrumental in the adoption of nature friendly farming practices across the city downland estate of Brighton and Hove, Steve will be giving tips on how we can help increase the number of birds that can visit your garden. About Steve Geliot.
Whether you’re just starting out or already have green fingers, everyone is welcome to come along, learn something new, and connect with others who care about nature in our neighbourhood. Get your tickets now – suggested donation of £3 towards our work (free for children).
Book now: £3 suggested donation.
Hi there, I’m Polly and I will be working with Hollingdean Development Trust over the next 3 years on the Climate for Communities Project .
The Climate for Communities project links different organisations in Brighton together to bring climate conversations back into the heart of the community. It is aiming to do this by addressing day-to-day concerns such as the rising cost of living and health & wellbeing challenges that people are facing, and why these might be a barrier or a motivation for people to get involved in climate conversations or actions.
That’s where you come in! The responses that we get from the community will make us more aware of what we can do to shape our future thoughts and actions regarding the climate, however big or small!
Hollingdean is so fortunate to have such brilliant things already happening right on our doorstep doing work to help with climate action. For example preventing food waste with social supermarket Brightstore and the Hollingdean Café with Real Junk Food Project at the Community Centre (see whats on page). Both use food that would otherwise have been thrown away to offer low-cost options to the community. We now also benefit from the new food waste collection through the council. Have you noticed a difference in the amount of rubbish yet? We also have community compost bins dotted around, hundreds of trees planted, named, and numbered through the work of Growing Hollingdean, the monthly Repair Café and Two Trees Community Garden to name just a few!
We are doing so much already but there is still more involvement that you can bring and that’s where the conversation starts. Click the link below will let you start your conversation with us so please take the time to complete this. We’d love to hear from you about your thoughts on Climate Change and any projects you would like to see happen. Get in touch with Polly on hollclime@hotmail.com if you’d like to know more about the project or pop into the community centre and have a chat with Shirley about getting involved.
Click here to link to survey about what climate change means to you.
We have had some great responses so far, lets keep the conversation flowing, please share this link every voice matters. Watch out for news of our ‘Climate Conversation’ launch event this Spring 2026.
Pop along for a free Kids Easter Party at Hollingdean Community Centre on Wednesday afternoon, 1st April 2026. There will be lots of fun to be had including Easter bonnet making at our art workshop. Plenty of Easter treats and music. We look forward to seeing you.
The summer issue of the Heart of Hollingdean newsletter will be distributed straight to people’s door as well as local community spaces – it could be the perfect opportunity to reach new people!
Please email lindajames@trustdevcom.org.uk for the price list and format guidance.
Please note there is limited space for advertising and submissions will be on a first come, first served basis although priority may be given to adverts that are time sensitive.
Some of you may well know that Hollingdean News sadly stopped running last year and Hollingdean Development Trust has been happy to take on this to create the new Heart of Hollingdean News letter and we hope you like it.
For those of you who don’t know Hollingdean Development Trust is a local charity in Hollingdean based out of the community centre in Thompson Road. The trustees are all volunteers. Some live in Hollingdean, others don’t but all have a love of the area and a wish to help improve the space. The trust celebrated 25 years last year having charitable status and look forward to many more. But we can’t do any of this without YOU!
Take a look inside and see what’s on offer for you in your area and if it’s not there, what would you like to see? Let us know and maybe we can support this. Content creators and willing delivery help are currently needed. Contact: Linda lindajames@trustdevcom.org.uk
If you have not received your copy yet, look out for it in the local area or at the community centre.
Enjoy this first edition and let us know if you can contribute to the next edition.
Extra help is available for households in Brighton & Hove struggling to pay for food, energy and other essential costs.
You can also find information on help to pay for energy bills and further advice on support with the cost of living on gov.uk.
If you receive benefits and need help to pay for essentials, apply for help from our Local Discretionary Social Fund.
If you already claim Housing Benefit or Universal Credit and need extra help to pay your Council Tax, apply for discretionary council tax support.
Hollingdean Community Centre applied for Estate Development Budget funding @teamcommunityengagement_bhcc to ‘Brighten The Centre‘. The grant was awarded and local artist Carl Evens @manual_halftone was asked to design and paint the murals to the front and entrance hallway in the Community Centre. Thank you Carl for a great job.
The Community, Advice, Support and Education, Charity are having a Free Children’s Christmas Party on Saturday 14 December 2024 at Hollingdean Community Centre. There will be food, refreshments, a magician and a children’s disco. At the end of the Party each child will receive a Christmas present for Father Christmas.
Families wishing to attend are asked to fill out a form before the party at Case Central, 4 Crestway Parade, Brighton BN1 7BL, open from 10am to 2-30pm, Tuesday to Friday, and should be returned the day before the Party on Friday 13th December 2024. This party is free for families on income based benefits. Thank you to the Community, Advice, Support and Education, Charity and there volunteers for this event.
Join us every Monday at 3.30 to 4.30pm (term time only) for our free contemporary dance club. A dynamic Turkish inspired contemporary dance group funded by Brighton & Hove Council, Active for Life. Your kids will learn to dance, develop their creativity and take part in performances to you to see. Taught by a teacher from the Ceyda Tanc Dance Company. See some of their videos here.
All abilities welcome, just turn up. Turn up on the day in or sign up with laura.marshall@brighton-hove.gov.uk
See the ‘Let’s get moving‘ calendar for other classes here.
2-6pm – Afternoon Tea & Neighbourhood Action Planning, Community group/volunteer info (set community priorities in an informal space)
2-6pm – Growing Hollingdean planting sessions and activities
2-4pm – Crafts corner in small room with Kidzone and Hollingdean Craft Group
4-4.30pm – Hollingdean Development Trust Annual General Meeting
5-6pm – Stay active trial sessions with Julia from Friday Fitness
Your ideas count!
The Ageing Well Brighton and Hove annual festival provides opportunities for people aged 50 and over to explore new experiences and meet new people. The festival is a celebration of Brighton and Hove as a City in which to age well, to highlight the many activities that help reduce isolation and increase well-being in the older population. The Festival allows event organisers to put on special events that are examples of the year round activities that are available to people looking to meet new people and stay active in body and mind.
See the video here and we look forward to seeing you.
See the Ageing Well website.
Join us for our 2024 Open Day for FREE fun activities, there will be food and community information.
2pm – Have your say about your community with Neighbourhood Action Plans (NAPs).
Meet local community groups, new people and join the activities, arts & crafts and demo fitness classes.
4pm – Our annual meeting of Hollingdean Development Trust.
Please share and we look forward to seeing you!
Receive up to £400 towards a community project that supports healthy living! See here for more details. Hollingdean Development Trust administers the Healthy Neighbourhood Fund on a yearly basis to support local community groups and projects. 2024 applications are now open, closing date 31 October 2024!
For more information contact:
Esme email esmeyoung@trustdevcom.org.uk or call 07367 360 134
Or pop into the community centre and chat to Shirley
Inspired by Hollingdean car less boot sale in 2020, put your walking shoes on and get out looking for some bargains or set up a table, mat or rail outside your house / flat to sell! Click here for google map to view all the locations. Email Jo-seph on summerstreetfair@gmail.com with your address and what you be selling and he will add you to the map. Sign up now!
Growing Hollingdean and Froglife will be at Hollingdean Community Orchard, at the back of Hollingdean Park on 18th August as part of the street fair. This free event welcomes everyone. Join us and chat to the volunteers about Hollingdean’s wildlife pond and street tree’s. We look forward to meeting you and please share.
FREE Skateboarding Taster Sessions
Skateboards, helmets and pads are all provided
Qualified coaches will teach basic skateboarding skills in
a supervised, safe and fun environment
Where: Hollingdean Skatepark
When: Saturday 10th August
Who: Age 7+
What time: 9 – 12pm with each session starting on the hour lasting 45 minutes
To book a place please contact us on 01273 294 589 or email: healthylifestyles@brighton-hove.gov.uk
Everyone welcome to join.
See the ‘What’s On’ page for up-to-date and regular list of classes such as:
Pilates classes, Monday Movers, Hollingdean Knitting Group, Brighton Borrowers, Brighstore Hollingdean Affordable Food Scheme, Hollingdean Yoga Group, Hollingdean Wednesdays with World Food Project, Brighton Community Acupuncture, Hollingbean Café in association with Real Junk Food, Hollingdean Library Sessions, Friday Fitness with Roz or Julia, Functional Fitness Classes, Third Space CIC Theatre Group, Hollingdean Repair Café and Brethren in Christ Church.
You will also find helpful leaflets about all sorts, from health to events. Please help yourself and take away to read in your own time or give to a friend or neighbour.
If you would like to add your leaflet, poster, rent a space or room for classes or an event please contact Shirley here.
