HOLLINGDEANNews An independent newspaper produced and delivered to your door by your neighbours. AUTUMN 2019 Sept/Oct/Nov Find us and follow us online: www.hollingdeannews.org.uk Contents Facebook: Hollingdean Community News Twitter: @hollingdeannews Community Update 2 Library of Things 3 Wild.Ecocafe: New Youth Project in Hollingdean Wild.Ecocafe (cont.) 3 ocal young people have created a Youth Council which is Friends of Hollingdean Park 4 designing how to transform the disused skate park area at Friends of Hollingbury and L the back of Hollingdean Park into an eco-café and chill out Burstead Woods 4 area open to everyone. The plan is for WILD.ECOCAFE to be Romeo and Juliet 4 made of recycled Time for a Rhyme 5 shipping containers and Soup and Stomp 6 powered by sustainable Councillor Contacts 6 Lucky Dip Success 7 energy. Negotiations Ginger Biscuits 7 with Brighton & Hove Councillor Surgeries 7 Council for use of the Events Listings 8 land are going on right Diversity Calendar 8 now. Continued on page 3… HOLLINGDEAN COMMUNITY CENTRE NOW HAS A DEFIBRILLATOR his invaluable emergency service has been provided by Sussex Heart Charity and paid for through local Councillor ward budgets and a donation from T Hollingdean Development Trust. The emergency defibrillator is now on the outside of the community centre, accessible 24 hours a day by residents and the ambulance service. Sussex Heart Charity is providing training sessions for the community, and we’re interested in getting people along who use the community centre regularly or live or work very locally, so that we have a pool of people who are confident about using it. The sessions are FREE and will be held at Hollingdean Community Centre on Tuesday September 10th at 2pm and Thursday September 19th at 7pm. The session lasts 2 hours. The topics cover: · Heart Attacks and a Cardiac Arrests · Chain of Survival · Signs and Symptoms · Dealing with a collapsed casualty · Statistics · Order of Response · Defibrillator · Demo and “Hands-on” If you’re interested please contact Shirley at the Community Centre on 01273 236160 or [email protected]. This edition of Hollingdean News is printed by Maslen Estate Agents 1 HOLLINGDEAN NEWS …IN PRINT AND ONLINE Hollingdean News Update: New Editors I’m excited to be a new editor of Hollingdean News! It’s been a packed summer and it looks like a busy autumn to follow. Romeo and Juliet wowed crowds and there’s talk of much more (page 4), the Lucky Dip was a great success (page 7), the pop-up Library opened (see below), the community centre defibrillator was installed and Hollingdean News received two new editors (myself as editor and Simon as listings editor) to name a few! We are very pleased to circulate what’s on in Hollingdean. There’s so much that it’s hard to know where to start: the ‘library of things’ continues to gather momentum (page 3), volunteers protect, manage and encourage our green spaces (page 4), there’s plans for a soup and a stomp across Wild Park (page 6) and much more (see the listings on the back page). The Hollingdean News requires a Delivery Coordinator – if you are interested please get in touch. As always a big thank you to those that support us through advertising and contact us if you want advertising space in the newspaper (our circulation is over 3200!). I hope you enjoy this and future issues and are inspired to explore and enjoy Hollingdean even more. Duncan – Editor. [email protected] Céza’s Autumn Update: Hollingdean Community Worker Library and digital hub in Hollingdean Opening times: Thursdays 10:00-14:00 at the Community Centre. ollingdean’s pop-up library and digital hub was officially launched on the 1st August. Over 60 adults and children turned up to celebrate and take part in activities. Some took H the chance to join Brighton and Hove City Libraries. This new community library is a collaboration between Brighton & Hove City Libraries, Hollingdean Community Centre and the Trust for Developing Communities. It includes books for adults and children to borrow, free Internet and wi-fi. There’s something for everyone - so come along! Every Thursday we are seeing new faces, and regulars, at the Community Centre asking about the library. The Real Junk Food Project café guests are also delighted as they can read a book or use a computer and/or access wi-fi on their devices, before or after their meal – the opening event was their busiest day since Christmas dinner 2018! It has been a very successful start and the impressions are that the library is meeting a real need in Hollingdean, as well as an encouragement to join and visit this invaluable resource. We need more volunteers so we can keep it running longer and hopefully open on another day. Rise & View Krew in Saunders Park Healthy Neighbourhood Fund - apply for up to The sessions have been very well attended by children £500 and their parents. Rise & View Krew is run by Strike a Deadline 30 September 2019 Light – Arts & Heritage and was set up to deliver Small Grants for health and wellbeing related community activities, sessions during school holiday club activities for young projects and groups in the Hollingdean & Saunders Park area. residents of the Saunders Park area. I have visited the Contact Céza for more information or for an application form. group to talk to parents and children while they made beautiful books! I got to meet some of the local Share or find out what’s happening in Hollingdean Websites: parents, and they are keen to discuss setting up a www.hollingdeancommunitycentre.org.uk group led by residents in the Saunders Park area. http://www.hollingdeannews.org.uk Or on Facebook and Twitter @hollingdeannews 2 Céza:! Call 01273234769 or email [email protected] HOLLINGDEAN NEWS …FOR LOCAL INFORMATION Library of Things: Results are in! hanks to everyone who responded to my survey about whether a Library of Things or Borrowers Co-op could be viable in Hollingdean. I received lots of thoughtful responses, so I T wanted to share some of the headlines with you! Encouragingly, 83% of respondents would borrow from the library if one was nearby. I asked if an annual reward for members would make people more likely to use the scheme. Interestingly, the majority (71%) felt that a reward would not make them more likely to use the service. In fact 92% felt they would opt to re-invest their reward. Everyone said they would contribute a small fee to join the scheme. I asked what sort of items people would find most useful to borrow. As expected, the most popular were tools, gardening and other DIY equipment. People suggested their own ideas for more ways to share in the community. A bank of loose screws and nails was a particular favourite of mine. Many also offered their second hand items as a way to kickstart the inventory. As many also pointed out, maintenance and care of the equipment to ensure it’s safety will be key to a scheme’s success. I plan to consult with experts to make sure this is considered. Thanks again for everyone’s enthusiasm, it’s really heartening to see a scheme like this might work in Hollingdean. I’ll continue to update as the idea progresses. In the meantime, if you’d like to contact me, please feel free to email me, Ed Baker, at [email protected] Where the Wild Things Are …continued from page 1. ILD members aim to reclaim disused local spaces, restore local ecology, chill out in nature, gain enterprise W skills and earn money working in the community enterprise eco-café. A beautiful decked space is included in the plans, looking out over Brighton and the coast. Everyone will be welcome. Dog walkers are particularly pleased with the idea! How is this all coming about? Local resident and fundraising consultant Julia Blagbrough, (WILD Director) talked to local people and others who use the area about the disused skate park and how it could benefit Hollingdean. It is clear that local young people want a safe space to hang out in, and to make a positive difference to the environment on our doorsteps. A growing community membership is stepping forward to get involved, including Hollingdean resident and architect, Stuart Hoyle. Local permaculture hero Stephan Gherels will head up WILD’s ecological restoration programme. WILD is also working together with Friends of Hollingdean Park, Hollingdean Ecological Action Project, Brighton Permaculture Trust, and Youth Strikes4Climate Change to name a few. Ruby Orsola, Sonny Da Luz and Joe Evershed are founder members of the Youth Council who are sending out a call to action asking everyone who wants to join to get in touch. The Youth Council meets next on Wednesday 18th September, 17:30, at Hollingdean Park. It’s an exciting time! Want to join in? WILD want to hear from Youth Council and adult community members as well. Email Julia at: [email protected] or check out Facebook: wild.ecocafe or Instagram: wild.ecocafe This edition of Hollingdean News is printed by Maslen Estate Agents ! 3 HOLLINGDEAN NEWS …IN PRINT AND ONLINE Chainsaws at Dawn: Volunteering opportunities and plans for parks riends of Hollingdean Park (FOHP) & Hollingdean Ecological Action Project F (HEAP) have been busy planting trees in the park and also around Hollingdean Estate. We are always looking for new people from the local area to get involved and help us with practical tree care & building projects as well as fundraising. Plans are in action to make a new pond in the top right corner of the football pitch above Hollingdean park, build stiles for fences around the orchard and into the football pitch from the park, create a new wooden balance trails/stepping stones up near the new bench by Dan Cordell (see photo).