Can't stomach any more plastic? Public Meeting 7:30pm 15th February The Southover (upstrs)
Hanover Action would like to see Hanover and Elm Grove move towards being a plastic free community - celebrate those shops and pubs that make a plastic free pledge and encourage more businesses to take those actions. We want to stop the crazy situation where CityClean is burning our recyclable waste, improve the state of our recycling and commit as a community to take responsibility for and reduce our waste.
Would you like to get involved?
Come to a public meeting 7:30pm Thursday 15th February upstairs at the Southover Pub.
All welcome
Film Showing: In Our Hands - 7:30pm 23rd February The Hanover Centre main hall
"In Our Hands" has been made to bring people together to think about food and to bust the myths of the industrial food farming system. It is also a rallying cry to get people involved in the growing food sovereignty movement that is transforming our food system from the bottom up.
http://inourhands.film/
Free film showing (donations welcome supporting the filmmakers and Hanover Action), all welcome.
Sunday 16 July, 1pm-4pm - Hanover Action social event and BBQ, in collaboration with the Brighton Energy Coop. Sunday day-out and Bar-B-Q to the Low Carbon Trust's Brighton Earthship, Stanmer Park. Map
Brighton Energy Coop and Hanover Action have jointly planned a One Planet Living social event on 'Zero Carbon Energy'. This is a fantastic opportunity to:
Bike Train to Earthship - join us
We plan to arrive at the Earthship in Stanmer Park at 1.30pm via one of the following options:
Brighton Energy Coop and Hanover Action have jointly planned a One Planet Living social event on 'Zero Carbon Energy'. This is a fantastic opportunity to:
- Visit the modernised Earthship and learn about low-carbon off-grid living.
- Learn about the Brighton Energy Coop, its ongoing plans, and how to invest in them
- Eat at a bar-b-que (including veg-options)
- Socialise with other inspiring people
Bike Train to Earthship - join us
We plan to arrive at the Earthship in Stanmer Park at 1.30pm via one of the following options:
- Cycle: 12.30pm departure of the Hanover Action 'Bike Train' ride to Stanmer Park from The Level (Elm Grove end).
- 1. Please listen to Marshall instructions
- 2. ensure your bike is in working order
- 3. Be aware of the weather conditions (sunscreen, raincoat, etc. as appropriate).
- 4. Ride with care and ensure that if your children are with you that they are close to you and aware of the need to be attentive to instructions.
- B&H bus service No. 78
Recent Event: Launch of our Call to Action for a One Planet Living action plan for Hanover & Elm Grove
| EVENT POSTER.pdf |
Before The Flood (2016) - Free film showing - Tuesday 31st January at 8pm in the Function Room at The Hanover pub.
Saturday 26 November, 1.30-3.30pm, Workshop for Call to Action on One Planet Living Action for Hanover & Elm Grove. Public community event, Hanover Centre (Upper Hall). Wide range of speakers on health and happiness, community, equity and the local economy, and zero carbon.
Speakers included:
Anthony Probert, Bioregional (Brighton)
Stan Rosenthal, Action for Happiness (AfH).
Sue Paskins, Sheep Share and Brighton community agriculture.
Damian Tow, Director, Brighton Energy Co-op.
Cllr. David Gibson, co-founder Brighton Living Rent Campaign
Light locally-made complementary refreshments were available including home-made bhajis, cakes, tea, coffee, etc.
Speakers included:
Anthony Probert, Bioregional (Brighton)
Stan Rosenthal, Action for Happiness (AfH).
Sue Paskins, Sheep Share and Brighton community agriculture.
Damian Tow, Director, Brighton Energy Co-op.
Cllr. David Gibson, co-founder Brighton Living Rent Campaign
Light locally-made complementary refreshments were available including home-made bhajis, cakes, tea, coffee, etc.
Organics Roofs - Case Studies. click to see more
Fri. 28 October 2016, 6.30pm-8.30pm.
A Greener Elm Grove and Hanover?
Public Meeting,
Hanover Centre (Lower Hall), 33 Southover Street, Brighton
Speakers and topics included:
Green roof and walls: what and why?
James Farrell, founder of Brighton & Hove Building Green
'Green Roofs: a city tour'
Paul Norman, Open Planet Living group
'Hanover Action's Green Asset Audit of Hanover & Elm Grove'
Plant stalls (bee-friendly and native!). DIY Instructions for green roof on sheds. Historic photos of trees in Elm Grove and Hanover.
A Greener Elm Grove and Hanover?
Public Meeting,
Hanover Centre (Lower Hall), 33 Southover Street, Brighton
Speakers and topics included:
Green roof and walls: what and why?
James Farrell, founder of Brighton & Hove Building Green
'Green Roofs: a city tour'
Paul Norman, Open Planet Living group
'Hanover Action's Green Asset Audit of Hanover & Elm Grove'
Plant stalls (bee-friendly and native!). DIY Instructions for green roof on sheds. Historic photos of trees in Elm Grove and Hanover.
Sat. 18 June, 11-1pm, One Planet Living Workshop - 'Land Use & Wildlife' at the Moulsecoomb Forest Garden.
With twelve arriving by bike or walking to this hidden space we arrived by 11am, for a talk about this local wildlife project by Warren Carter, and reflections on what could be achieved in Hanover & Elm Grove taken forward in a group discussion with by Kristoffer Hewitt (Natural England, & Sussex Wildlife Trust) and Marian (Natural England).
We considered how we could "re-wild" and make a healthy green urban environment, helping to counter local air pollution, and improve personal and collective well-being with greener landscape. Issues of flooding and the opportunities presented by the parking developments in Hanover & Elm Grove all were considered. Tree planting and bird boxes were a keen focus along the positive impact that green roofa dn growing walls could make, and finally the need for a full audit of the green spaces that exist or could be created in our community.
Building upon the Vision set out at our launch workshop, our action planning was then taken forward with informed and enthusiastic discussion to create a more sustainable natural environment, part of our Action Plan for One Planet Living in Hanover & Elm Grove.
See slideshow from the day above :)
For more on this amazing local resource and active community asset see Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project
With twelve arriving by bike or walking to this hidden space we arrived by 11am, for a talk about this local wildlife project by Warren Carter, and reflections on what could be achieved in Hanover & Elm Grove taken forward in a group discussion with by Kristoffer Hewitt (Natural England, & Sussex Wildlife Trust) and Marian (Natural England).
We considered how we could "re-wild" and make a healthy green urban environment, helping to counter local air pollution, and improve personal and collective well-being with greener landscape. Issues of flooding and the opportunities presented by the parking developments in Hanover & Elm Grove all were considered. Tree planting and bird boxes were a keen focus along the positive impact that green roofa dn growing walls could make, and finally the need for a full audit of the green spaces that exist or could be created in our community.
Building upon the Vision set out at our launch workshop, our action planning was then taken forward with informed and enthusiastic discussion to create a more sustainable natural environment, part of our Action Plan for One Planet Living in Hanover & Elm Grove.
See slideshow from the day above :)
For more on this amazing local resource and active community asset see Moulsecoomb Forest Garden and Wildlife Project
Jump to Film
Zero Carbon Britain
HASL PUBLIC MEETING: Zero Carbon Britain - rethinking our future - in our Community. Fri. 27 Feb 2015, 7.30pm-9.00pm. Hanover Centre (Upper Hall). Free - but donations welcomed as ever :)
A Presentation. two speakers - Paul Allen and Kit Jones (Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales) present their ground breaking Report on Zero Carbon Britain. This flagship research project demonstrates that we can do this using only currently available technology, whilst maintaining a modern standard of living, eating well, and meeting our energy demand at all times with 100% renewable UK energy sources.
A Panel Discussion will consider community-based responses to this research, with:
- Cllr Ian Davey (on local transport-carbon). Lead Member on Transport, Green Party Group, Brighton & Hove City Council
- Robin Webster (on land use-carbon). Local journalist and campaigner on land use and carbon, and local food enterprises.
- Vera Zakharov (on local food waste-carbon). Member of the Food Waste Collective, HASL.
- Paul Norman (on energy reduction-carbon). Coordinator of Hanover10:10 and involved with many others in the Hanover Centre 'Eco-Refit'.
Audience Discussion. please come along to ask questions and provide your own ideas and suggestions of how our local community can contribute to a Zero Carbon Britain
HASL PUBLIC MEETING: Zero Carbon Britain - rethinking our future - in our Community. Fri. 27 Feb 2015, 7.30pm-9.00pm. Hanover Centre (Upper Hall). Free - but donations welcomed as ever :)
A Presentation. two speakers - Paul Allen and Kit Jones (Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales) present their ground breaking Report on Zero Carbon Britain. This flagship research project demonstrates that we can do this using only currently available technology, whilst maintaining a modern standard of living, eating well, and meeting our energy demand at all times with 100% renewable UK energy sources.
A Panel Discussion will consider community-based responses to this research, with:
- Cllr Ian Davey (on local transport-carbon). Lead Member on Transport, Green Party Group, Brighton & Hove City Council
- Robin Webster (on land use-carbon). Local journalist and campaigner on land use and carbon, and local food enterprises.
- Vera Zakharov (on local food waste-carbon). Member of the Food Waste Collective, HASL.
- Paul Norman (on energy reduction-carbon). Coordinator of Hanover10:10 and involved with many others in the Hanover Centre 'Eco-Refit'.
Audience Discussion. please come along to ask questions and provide your own ideas and suggestions of how our local community can contribute to a Zero Carbon Britain
Hanover10:10 Meeting: Tues. 17 February 2015, 8pm-9.30pm. Hanover Centre Meeting Room (access from rear of building). Discussion and action on:
- Energy and CO2 reduction over last 2 years of action at Hanover Centre
- Zero Carbon Britain HASL Public Meeting (Fri. 27 Feb) - final issues
- Finalising Solid Wall Insulation works at Meeting Room
- Hanover Homes loft-insulation project (UK Power Networks bid)
- Energy and CO2 reduction over last 2 years of action at Hanover Centre
- Zero Carbon Britain HASL Public Meeting (Fri. 27 Feb) - final issues
- Finalising Solid Wall Insulation works at Meeting Room
- Hanover Homes loft-insulation project (UK Power Networks bid)
HASL Social
HASL Social: Tuesday 3rd February, 8pm-10pm. Drop in for a drink and a chat with like-minded sustainable people? Downstair rear at the Southover Pub, 58 Southover Street, Brighton.
HASL Social: Book event - The Southover (upstairs), 8pm, Tues 7th October 2014, 8pm-
Includes consideration of the Centre for Alternative Technologies' Zero-Carbon Britain vision/report. See: http://www.zerocarbonbritain.org/ or go to the Report in Short. Really interested in depth? then see the Report Online (can download too)
Climate week quiz and social - Tuesday March 5th, The Reservoir, Howard Road, 8pm
March 4th to 10th is Climate week. HASL are joining in with a social night out downstairs at the Reservoir.
HASL Social: Tuesday 3rd February, 8pm-10pm. Drop in for a drink and a chat with like-minded sustainable people? Downstair rear at the Southover Pub, 58 Southover Street, Brighton.
HASL Social: Book event - The Southover (upstairs), 8pm, Tues 7th October 2014, 8pm-
Includes consideration of the Centre for Alternative Technologies' Zero-Carbon Britain vision/report. See: http://www.zerocarbonbritain.org/ or go to the Report in Short. Really interested in depth? then see the Report Online (can download too)
Climate week quiz and social - Tuesday March 5th, The Reservoir, Howard Road, 8pm
March 4th to 10th is Climate week. HASL are joining in with a social night out downstairs at the Reservoir.
- There will be a big ECO quiz, no need to come as part of a team, just come along.
- A swap table – bring along one good quality object/ book/ dvd/packet of seeds you no longer want and swap it with something you do want.
- Come and meet people already involved in HASL and find out more about what we do
VEG
VEG work day. Every Thursday 2-7pm, Hanover Community Centre garden. 33 Southover St.
We are working on our exciting new growing plan for this year, plotting and swatting about which lovely vegetables will grow where best. Come along to learn about how to plan a garden the things to consider and put in your own ideas and discuss sustainable issues and generally put the world to rights over a cuppa.We will bring the tea and biscuits, bring snacks to share.
Gardening Swapping event at the VEG.
33 Southover Street, Hanover
Sunday 4th May 2014
12-3.30 pm
Come along and swap your seedlings, plants, seeds, tools, pots, books, and know how.
Spring is here! If your seedlings have failed or you haven’t even started the kale, don’t worry it’s not too late. Bring all the things you have to swap, come even if you have nothing to swap and take home the bounty of your neighbour’s abundance, there is always plenty to spare.
Stories of spring - Tuesday 7th May 2013, 7.30pm, Southover Pub (was the Pub with No Name)
An evening of spoken word & folklore by candle light
Be rejuvenated, blow away the cold winter and walk in to an evening of exploration and celebration of the season
Bring your tales to tell, both tellers and listeners welcome
Open mic and story telling with a hint of green.
Stories themed around spring, nature, inspiring change, living sustainably, our environment
Upstairs at the Southover Pub (formerly the Pub with No Name), top of Southover Street, Tues 7 May 2013 7.30pm (Facebook event page)
Plus the HASL swap table: bring something to swap, take something away
This is HASL social event, everyone is very welcome. (p.s. The next socials are Tues July 2nd and Tues Sept 3rd)
Seedling Swap - Sunday 28th April 2013, 1-4pm, at the Hanover Community Centre
Take your chance to feel community and grow some of your own lovely lush veg this spring!
We are hosting our annual seedling swap, you can pick up free: seeds, seedlings, plants, pots, confidence, green fingered conversation, compost caddy, and a lovely afternoon.
There will be warm tea and cakes for sale as well as super cheap gardening tools and stuff from the attic!!
Bring along your seeds, seedlings, plants and tools to swap and give away.
Its a free community loving event, all donations welcome. Here's the Facebook event page.
Big Dig Week - Thursday 21st March 2013, 1-5 pm at the VEG: Hanover Community Centre
We Need You! The week of the 16th March over 200 urban community gardens will be taking part in the Big Dig.
The Big Dig is all about getting people down to their local community garden to get growing. Whether you are new to gardening or an experienced gardener we need your help to make your local community garden grow.
www.bigdig.org.uk
HIVE AID - 'bee kind to bee kind' - Saturday 4th August 3-9pm. Hanover Community Centre and VEG
A free fun day for kids, bees and grown ups was had....
Ever wondered why the bees knees are really the bees knees?
We heard why bees are in trouble and how important they are to our survival.
We all learnt a lot and joined in with educational and fun workshops and talks.
All with bee-inspired art of many kinds, adding to our community bee wall.
We:
VEG work day. Every Thursday 2-7pm, Hanover Community Centre garden. 33 Southover St.
We are working on our exciting new growing plan for this year, plotting and swatting about which lovely vegetables will grow where best. Come along to learn about how to plan a garden the things to consider and put in your own ideas and discuss sustainable issues and generally put the world to rights over a cuppa.We will bring the tea and biscuits, bring snacks to share.
Gardening Swapping event at the VEG.
33 Southover Street, Hanover
Sunday 4th May 2014
12-3.30 pm
Come along and swap your seedlings, plants, seeds, tools, pots, books, and know how.
Spring is here! If your seedlings have failed or you haven’t even started the kale, don’t worry it’s not too late. Bring all the things you have to swap, come even if you have nothing to swap and take home the bounty of your neighbour’s abundance, there is always plenty to spare.
Stories of spring - Tuesday 7th May 2013, 7.30pm, Southover Pub (was the Pub with No Name)
An evening of spoken word & folklore by candle light
Be rejuvenated, blow away the cold winter and walk in to an evening of exploration and celebration of the season
Bring your tales to tell, both tellers and listeners welcome
Open mic and story telling with a hint of green.
Stories themed around spring, nature, inspiring change, living sustainably, our environment
Upstairs at the Southover Pub (formerly the Pub with No Name), top of Southover Street, Tues 7 May 2013 7.30pm (Facebook event page)
Plus the HASL swap table: bring something to swap, take something away
This is HASL social event, everyone is very welcome. (p.s. The next socials are Tues July 2nd and Tues Sept 3rd)
Seedling Swap - Sunday 28th April 2013, 1-4pm, at the Hanover Community Centre
Take your chance to feel community and grow some of your own lovely lush veg this spring!
We are hosting our annual seedling swap, you can pick up free: seeds, seedlings, plants, pots, confidence, green fingered conversation, compost caddy, and a lovely afternoon.
There will be warm tea and cakes for sale as well as super cheap gardening tools and stuff from the attic!!
Bring along your seeds, seedlings, plants and tools to swap and give away.
Its a free community loving event, all donations welcome. Here's the Facebook event page.
Big Dig Week - Thursday 21st March 2013, 1-5 pm at the VEG: Hanover Community Centre
We Need You! The week of the 16th March over 200 urban community gardens will be taking part in the Big Dig.
The Big Dig is all about getting people down to their local community garden to get growing. Whether you are new to gardening or an experienced gardener we need your help to make your local community garden grow.
www.bigdig.org.uk
HIVE AID - 'bee kind to bee kind' - Saturday 4th August 3-9pm. Hanover Community Centre and VEG
A free fun day for kids, bees and grown ups was had....
Ever wondered why the bees knees are really the bees knees?
We heard why bees are in trouble and how important they are to our survival.
We all learnt a lot and joined in with educational and fun workshops and talks.
All with bee-inspired art of many kinds, adding to our community bee wall.
We:
- Showed kids film: Bee Movie and grown ups film: Queen of the Sun (to be re-run in the forthcoming Film Season).
- Ran workshops, with talks from natural bee keepers
- We did seed bomb making, highlighting bee friendly plants, how to create bee houses, and ate the delights of the community cafe
Other events
Fancy a large communal back garden? - TV company Silver River (producers of BBC2's the Big Allotment Challenge) are looking for a group of neighbours in Hanover to transform their own private gardens into communal space.
Residents will work together to create a garden that none of them ever could dream of owning individually, and, with the help of experts and funding (and legal issues covered), transform their small plots into inviting larger space. If your street/cluster of houses are interested in taking part, please contact Victoria (an ex-Hanover resident) on 0206 307 2734 or email Victoria.Howarth@silverriver.tv for info.
Positive Energy- A HASL Public Meeting, with Dr Caroline Lucas (local MP), Dr Colin Nolden (Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, SPRU, University of Sussex) and Ollie Pendered (Community Energy South)
Friday 21st March, 7:30-9:00pm
The Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, BN2 9UD
Looking at positive actions and policies to expand renewable energy and reduce fuel poverty. Focussing on the national policy context at first (Caroline), we move to the technical innovations in energy generation and supply (Colin), and then to the opportunities to scale up community level deployment of renewables in the region (Ollie).
To help inspire you to act positively too, we have our local Brighton Energy Cooperative (BEC) and Brighton Energy Services Co. (BHESCo) on hand.
Also: Come along from 5:00pm-7:30pm to try out an electric bike, and see a hybrid car in the Community Centre garden.
Interested in renewable energy?
Ollie Pendered is one of the founder members of Community Energy South a network of Community Energy organisations brought together to grow community energy and share best practice across the region. During 2013-14 he has worked with Brighton & Hove Council on the Your Warm Home project supporting fuel poverty across the City. He founded the Barcombe Energy Group where he is currently leading a district heating project to get the village off oil dependancy, as Director of Ovesco in Lewes he is developing the Community Energy Peer Mentoring Programme, and is Communities Director for the Brighton Energy Services Co. (BHESCo)
BHESCo will also be around to help and encourage you to switch your home energy supplier to a renewable supplier, providing you with a free "energy bag" if you switch to Ecotricity, and provide free energy advice and explanation of the benefits of community energy. BHESCo is a co-operative dedicated to help people lower their energy costs by installing renewable energy and energy efficiency measures on a pay as you save model. Everything they do is for the benefit of the community. The commission received from your switch to Ecotricity is invested in taking action against fuel poverty in Brighton & Hove is a ring fenced fund.
Attending on the night will be Brighton Energy Coop who are just about to complete its latest share offer, which is raising £240,000 from members of the local community to fund a solar energy array at Shoreham Port. This will generate green electricity for Brighton and Hove and gives investors a 5% return per annum. Anyone can invest. Come to along to talk to BEC director Will Cottrell about the benefits of community-funded renewable energy, and how you can get involved. To find out more, visit brightonenergy.org.uk and/or talk to Will on the night.
Please spread the word: Download and print the event poster to display in your window
HASL Annual Meeting with Caroline Lucas MP - Friday 15 March 2013, 8pm, Hanover Community Centre
Is fairness the cornerstone of sustainability? And how do we get there?- A chance to celebrate HASL's achievements over the past year, and to meet and discuss some important issues with our MP, Caroline Lucas.
All welcome.
GOOD FOOD for GOOD CAUSES- Sharing food with communities that need it
Friday 28th Feb, 11am - 3:30pm,
Old Municipal Market, Circus Street BN2 9QF (behind the Blind Tiger)
It's time for the Food Waste Collective's winter 'food bank' for charitable organizations, where we redistribute food that would otherwise be wasted to charitable food projects that need it.
If you’re a charitable project that needs food, a business that can donate surplus food, or want to volunteer, get in touch to help us turn surplus into a social resource: foodwastecollective@gmail.com
Or if you are just interested in what we are doing pop along for chat on the day.
Candelaria- Sun 2 Feb, 5-8pm- a free street event with hot food, mulled wine, light show and illumination talks. Grant street, Hanover
Dry Goods for Good Causes- So many people in Brighton need good food yet tragically so much is wasted!
On Friday the 22nd November we are going to do something about this!!
The food waste collective are running regular ''food bank' events for charities and needy causes from food that would otherwise have been wasted! We will be adding to the growing movement to save food and feed good causes.
PROJECTS:
Contact us if you are a charitable project serving local communities or working for social benefit e.g a community cafe, day centre, hostel, lunch club, food bank, or come and collect on the day from 10am-6pm. Try to bring the containers you need (example of goods: wheat & gluten-free flours, nuts, seeds, beans and pulses, sugar, salt, dried fruit, oats, quinoa, amaranth, rye, etc.)
VOLUNTEERS:
Come and help, we need you to make this work. You will be re-packing food, helping the running of the day, delivering to charities, signing charities up to planzeros. If you have bike+trailier or car power please bring these on the day. Come from 9am-6.30pm
DONORS:
If you are a part of an organisation that have surplus food regularly and hate to waste it but want to give it to a good cause then get in touch before or after the event to see how we can help that happen.
THERE WILL BE DEMONSTRATION COOKING FOR ALL TO TRY, MUSIC AND A FUN ATMOSPHERE
Contact -foodwastecollective@gmail.com
Sharing makes us happy- Friday November 22nd 2013, 7.30-9pm Hanover pub
Find out how you can save you money, be happy and take care of our planet.
Have you thought about how you can share things you have already and borrow things you don't?
Like skills, transport,gardens, tools, equiptment, housing and the way you buy food?
Come join us for a night of sharing and a GIANT STUFF SWAP. Hear how we have made a difference over the last year in our AGM event and have fun together.Hear people tell their personal inspiring stories and bring your own to tell.
Bring food to share and your old things that you want to exchange in our giant STUFF SWAP
we will be giving away 20 sets of bike lights to keep you safe at night - come and get em!
A call for Food Waste Action- Saturday 6th July 2013, Brighthelm Centre
Are you tired of hearing huge figures of food being wasted in the news and then reading how many people are starving globally and in food poverty in the UK?
HASL have had enough and are helping to tackle food waste by putting on a food waste event and we want you to join us.
The EVENT……
Do you have ideas on reducing food waste in the city or a brilliant approach to tackling the issue in your work? Please share it at the event, or simply come to be inspired.
There will be a chance to listen and chat to speakers from awesome groups like fare share, plan zero, this is rubbish, gleaners network that are already doing a great job at tackling the issue and take the chance to join a Brighton group and stand up together against this rubbish problem!
There will be free grub made from food that would have otherwise been wasted created to delight your pallets and make you think twice about what 'waste' is and a raffle with top prizes of meals in great brighton restaurants. Speakers will be from gleaners network, this is rubbish, fare share and others.
It will be a free event with suggested donation of £2
Open Air Open House - Every Sunday in May 2013, 12-4pm
Popping up in a street near you - the Open Air Open House. Why not stop by to help us decorate and have a chat and a cup of tea?
Follow the red thread from the Hanover Centre to find us.
The last Sunday in May is the Flashmob Gallery - let's turn our streets into art galleries! Follow @openairart on Twitter or join the Facebook event to find out where to bring your art.
No. 9 Bus to Utopia - Tuesday 16th April 2013, 7pm, at the Greys, Southover Street
Join us for an entertaining tour round the world in the company of Hanover's own Dr David Bramwell, aboard his No. 9 Bus to Utopia. This storytelling show is a true account of a year he spent visiting some of the most extraordinary communities around the globe and how we can all be part of a peaceful 'revolution' in our neighbourhoods. David is part of the team behind Hanover's long-running Zocalo, creator of the Cheeky Guide to Brighton and host of the Catalyst Club.
Followed by discussion - bring your own ideas on what makes a neighbourhood into a community. All welcome, tickets free, donations gratefully accepted. Pick up your tickets from the Greys or the Geese, or from SpacePlace on Thursdays at the Hanover Centre.
Event hosted by the HASL Streets for Sharing group, with generous support from The Greys and the Hanover Community Association. Contact: hanovertransport@live.com
Volunteer Insulation Event, Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover St. 3rd March 2013, 10am-4pm
We need you to contribute to the Hanover Centre Carbon RACE in an open volunteering event. Come and make a practical difference, meet others, and learn what can be done to insulate buildings at the Hanover Centre. We will be completing work on the installation of more secondary glazing, insulating hot water pipes and installing some LED lights.... but only with your help.
Please contact Jackie at Hanover1010@gmail.com to let us know if you can make it all day, morning shift (10-12.30) or afternoon shift (1-4pm) - and we can plan the work teams. Please bring a sandwich for a short lunch break (12.30-1.00pm) where you will get an update on the major works about to start in insulating the main roof
Cycling at the Centre - Thursday 21st Feb, Hanover Community Centre, 10am - 2.30pm
Free event for cyclists and would-be cyclists in Hanover. Drop in with your bike for:
Event hosted by HASL Streets for Sharing group and Hanover Community Association. Contact: hanovertransport@live.com
Cycling at the Centre. Hanover Community Association event- Thursday 1st November 2012. Hanover Community Centre (garden entrance), 11am to 2pm.
Free event for cyclists and would-be cyclists in Hanover. Drop in with your bike for:
Warmer Hanover Houses? Considering Solid Wall Insulation- Hanover10:10 Event.
Thursday 1st November 2012. Hanover Community Centre (Main Hall). 33 Southover Street, Brighton
xhibition from 3.30pm.
Talks and discussion: Speakers 5-7.00pm
Event Poster Text of Council Press Release
5.00pm Introduction – Paul Norman/Jackie Strube HASL
5.15pm Hanover Housing – how best to improve? – Alex Hunt from the Green Building Partnership will present the results of the 50 detailed energy surveys carried out earlier this year using government LEAF funding. Alex is a sustainable building professional and runs local building company Bright Green Homes.
5.45pm Retrofit – personal experience of doing major improvements on a Hanover House – Paul Early. Paul has improved his house in Whichelo Place; measures include external wall insulation, new windows and solar panels. Hear about how he achieved this and how effective it has been in reducing his energy bills.
6.15pm Condensation and ventilation – problems and solutions for older housing – Toby Rollestone from MacConvilles. Toby is a Director at Brighton firm MacConvilles Surveying and is an expert on older buildings. Lots of Hanover houses have problems with condensation – Toby will consider possible options for solving the problem.
6.45pm Insulating a street – results of the Southampton Street LEAF funded project – Duncan Baker Brown, BBM Sustainable Design. In March this year, local green architect Duncan, with sustainability consultants Phlorum, considered how to apply insulation to the outside walls of a whole terrace. Southampton Street was used as a case study and, based on detailed measurements and studies, Duncan shows how it could be done.
7.30pm Event ends
Streets are for Sharing- Sunday 16th September, 12noon to 6pm. Hanover Community Centre (33 Southover Street) and Grove Street opposite.
You are warmly invited to rediscover, reinvent and re-imagine a street in Hanover – and explore how we can all make changes in the way we travel, to open up our streets for everyone to share.
Come out and play in the street, meet your neighbours, consult our living books in the human library, explore Hanover's streets and share your vision of how we could use them as community spaces. We'll be transforming Grove Street into a grove, with home made trees and colourful flowers - everyone's welcome to join in! Join us from 4-6pm at the Hanover Centre for inspiring films and discussion to wrap up the day.
Fancy a large communal back garden? - TV company Silver River (producers of BBC2's the Big Allotment Challenge) are looking for a group of neighbours in Hanover to transform their own private gardens into communal space.
Residents will work together to create a garden that none of them ever could dream of owning individually, and, with the help of experts and funding (and legal issues covered), transform their small plots into inviting larger space. If your street/cluster of houses are interested in taking part, please contact Victoria (an ex-Hanover resident) on 0206 307 2734 or email Victoria.Howarth@silverriver.tv for info.
Positive Energy- A HASL Public Meeting, with Dr Caroline Lucas (local MP), Dr Colin Nolden (Centre on Innovation and Energy Demand, SPRU, University of Sussex) and Ollie Pendered (Community Energy South)
Friday 21st March, 7:30-9:00pm
The Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, BN2 9UD
Looking at positive actions and policies to expand renewable energy and reduce fuel poverty. Focussing on the national policy context at first (Caroline), we move to the technical innovations in energy generation and supply (Colin), and then to the opportunities to scale up community level deployment of renewables in the region (Ollie).
To help inspire you to act positively too, we have our local Brighton Energy Cooperative (BEC) and Brighton Energy Services Co. (BHESCo) on hand.
Also: Come along from 5:00pm-7:30pm to try out an electric bike, and see a hybrid car in the Community Centre garden.
Interested in renewable energy?
Ollie Pendered is one of the founder members of Community Energy South a network of Community Energy organisations brought together to grow community energy and share best practice across the region. During 2013-14 he has worked with Brighton & Hove Council on the Your Warm Home project supporting fuel poverty across the City. He founded the Barcombe Energy Group where he is currently leading a district heating project to get the village off oil dependancy, as Director of Ovesco in Lewes he is developing the Community Energy Peer Mentoring Programme, and is Communities Director for the Brighton Energy Services Co. (BHESCo)
BHESCo will also be around to help and encourage you to switch your home energy supplier to a renewable supplier, providing you with a free "energy bag" if you switch to Ecotricity, and provide free energy advice and explanation of the benefits of community energy. BHESCo is a co-operative dedicated to help people lower their energy costs by installing renewable energy and energy efficiency measures on a pay as you save model. Everything they do is for the benefit of the community. The commission received from your switch to Ecotricity is invested in taking action against fuel poverty in Brighton & Hove is a ring fenced fund.
Attending on the night will be Brighton Energy Coop who are just about to complete its latest share offer, which is raising £240,000 from members of the local community to fund a solar energy array at Shoreham Port. This will generate green electricity for Brighton and Hove and gives investors a 5% return per annum. Anyone can invest. Come to along to talk to BEC director Will Cottrell about the benefits of community-funded renewable energy, and how you can get involved. To find out more, visit brightonenergy.org.uk and/or talk to Will on the night.
Please spread the word: Download and print the event poster to display in your window
HASL Annual Meeting with Caroline Lucas MP - Friday 15 March 2013, 8pm, Hanover Community Centre
Is fairness the cornerstone of sustainability? And how do we get there?- A chance to celebrate HASL's achievements over the past year, and to meet and discuss some important issues with our MP, Caroline Lucas.
All welcome.
GOOD FOOD for GOOD CAUSES- Sharing food with communities that need it
Friday 28th Feb, 11am - 3:30pm,
Old Municipal Market, Circus Street BN2 9QF (behind the Blind Tiger)
It's time for the Food Waste Collective's winter 'food bank' for charitable organizations, where we redistribute food that would otherwise be wasted to charitable food projects that need it.
If you’re a charitable project that needs food, a business that can donate surplus food, or want to volunteer, get in touch to help us turn surplus into a social resource: foodwastecollective@gmail.com
Or if you are just interested in what we are doing pop along for chat on the day.
Candelaria- Sun 2 Feb, 5-8pm- a free street event with hot food, mulled wine, light show and illumination talks. Grant street, Hanover
Dry Goods for Good Causes- So many people in Brighton need good food yet tragically so much is wasted!
On Friday the 22nd November we are going to do something about this!!
The food waste collective are running regular ''food bank' events for charities and needy causes from food that would otherwise have been wasted! We will be adding to the growing movement to save food and feed good causes.
PROJECTS:
Contact us if you are a charitable project serving local communities or working for social benefit e.g a community cafe, day centre, hostel, lunch club, food bank, or come and collect on the day from 10am-6pm. Try to bring the containers you need (example of goods: wheat & gluten-free flours, nuts, seeds, beans and pulses, sugar, salt, dried fruit, oats, quinoa, amaranth, rye, etc.)
VOLUNTEERS:
Come and help, we need you to make this work. You will be re-packing food, helping the running of the day, delivering to charities, signing charities up to planzeros. If you have bike+trailier or car power please bring these on the day. Come from 9am-6.30pm
DONORS:
If you are a part of an organisation that have surplus food regularly and hate to waste it but want to give it to a good cause then get in touch before or after the event to see how we can help that happen.
THERE WILL BE DEMONSTRATION COOKING FOR ALL TO TRY, MUSIC AND A FUN ATMOSPHERE
Contact -foodwastecollective@gmail.com
Sharing makes us happy- Friday November 22nd 2013, 7.30-9pm Hanover pub
Find out how you can save you money, be happy and take care of our planet.
Have you thought about how you can share things you have already and borrow things you don't?
Like skills, transport,gardens, tools, equiptment, housing and the way you buy food?
Come join us for a night of sharing and a GIANT STUFF SWAP. Hear how we have made a difference over the last year in our AGM event and have fun together.Hear people tell their personal inspiring stories and bring your own to tell.
Bring food to share and your old things that you want to exchange in our giant STUFF SWAP
we will be giving away 20 sets of bike lights to keep you safe at night - come and get em!
A call for Food Waste Action- Saturday 6th July 2013, Brighthelm Centre
Are you tired of hearing huge figures of food being wasted in the news and then reading how many people are starving globally and in food poverty in the UK?
HASL have had enough and are helping to tackle food waste by putting on a food waste event and we want you to join us.
The EVENT……
Do you have ideas on reducing food waste in the city or a brilliant approach to tackling the issue in your work? Please share it at the event, or simply come to be inspired.
There will be a chance to listen and chat to speakers from awesome groups like fare share, plan zero, this is rubbish, gleaners network that are already doing a great job at tackling the issue and take the chance to join a Brighton group and stand up together against this rubbish problem!
There will be free grub made from food that would have otherwise been wasted created to delight your pallets and make you think twice about what 'waste' is and a raffle with top prizes of meals in great brighton restaurants. Speakers will be from gleaners network, this is rubbish, fare share and others.
It will be a free event with suggested donation of £2
Open Air Open House - Every Sunday in May 2013, 12-4pm
Popping up in a street near you - the Open Air Open House. Why not stop by to help us decorate and have a chat and a cup of tea?
Follow the red thread from the Hanover Centre to find us.
The last Sunday in May is the Flashmob Gallery - let's turn our streets into art galleries! Follow @openairart on Twitter or join the Facebook event to find out where to bring your art.
No. 9 Bus to Utopia - Tuesday 16th April 2013, 7pm, at the Greys, Southover Street
Join us for an entertaining tour round the world in the company of Hanover's own Dr David Bramwell, aboard his No. 9 Bus to Utopia. This storytelling show is a true account of a year he spent visiting some of the most extraordinary communities around the globe and how we can all be part of a peaceful 'revolution' in our neighbourhoods. David is part of the team behind Hanover's long-running Zocalo, creator of the Cheeky Guide to Brighton and host of the Catalyst Club.
Followed by discussion - bring your own ideas on what makes a neighbourhood into a community. All welcome, tickets free, donations gratefully accepted. Pick up your tickets from the Greys or the Geese, or from SpacePlace on Thursdays at the Hanover Centre.
Event hosted by the HASL Streets for Sharing group, with generous support from The Greys and the Hanover Community Association. Contact: hanovertransport@live.com
Volunteer Insulation Event, Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover St. 3rd March 2013, 10am-4pm
We need you to contribute to the Hanover Centre Carbon RACE in an open volunteering event. Come and make a practical difference, meet others, and learn what can be done to insulate buildings at the Hanover Centre. We will be completing work on the installation of more secondary glazing, insulating hot water pipes and installing some LED lights.... but only with your help.
Please contact Jackie at Hanover1010@gmail.com to let us know if you can make it all day, morning shift (10-12.30) or afternoon shift (1-4pm) - and we can plan the work teams. Please bring a sandwich for a short lunch break (12.30-1.00pm) where you will get an update on the major works about to start in insulating the main roof
Cycling at the Centre - Thursday 21st Feb, Hanover Community Centre, 10am - 2.30pm
Free event for cyclists and would-be cyclists in Hanover. Drop in with your bike for:
- bike safety checks by Bike4Life South
- information about safe cycling
- free bike lights and reflective bits for you and your bike
- Cafe and chat with other local cyclists
Event hosted by HASL Streets for Sharing group and Hanover Community Association. Contact: hanovertransport@live.com
Cycling at the Centre. Hanover Community Association event- Thursday 1st November 2012. Hanover Community Centre (garden entrance), 11am to 2pm.
Free event for cyclists and would-be cyclists in Hanover. Drop in with your bike for:
- bike safety checks by Bike4Life South
- information about safe cycling
- free bike lights and reflective bits for you and your bike
- Cafe and chat with other local cyclists
Warmer Hanover Houses? Considering Solid Wall Insulation- Hanover10:10 Event.
Thursday 1st November 2012. Hanover Community Centre (Main Hall). 33 Southover Street, Brighton
xhibition from 3.30pm.
Talks and discussion: Speakers 5-7.00pm
Event Poster Text of Council Press Release
5.00pm Introduction – Paul Norman/Jackie Strube HASL
5.15pm Hanover Housing – how best to improve? – Alex Hunt from the Green Building Partnership will present the results of the 50 detailed energy surveys carried out earlier this year using government LEAF funding. Alex is a sustainable building professional and runs local building company Bright Green Homes.
5.45pm Retrofit – personal experience of doing major improvements on a Hanover House – Paul Early. Paul has improved his house in Whichelo Place; measures include external wall insulation, new windows and solar panels. Hear about how he achieved this and how effective it has been in reducing his energy bills.
6.15pm Condensation and ventilation – problems and solutions for older housing – Toby Rollestone from MacConvilles. Toby is a Director at Brighton firm MacConvilles Surveying and is an expert on older buildings. Lots of Hanover houses have problems with condensation – Toby will consider possible options for solving the problem.
6.45pm Insulating a street – results of the Southampton Street LEAF funded project – Duncan Baker Brown, BBM Sustainable Design. In March this year, local green architect Duncan, with sustainability consultants Phlorum, considered how to apply insulation to the outside walls of a whole terrace. Southampton Street was used as a case study and, based on detailed measurements and studies, Duncan shows how it could be done.
7.30pm Event ends
Streets are for Sharing- Sunday 16th September, 12noon to 6pm. Hanover Community Centre (33 Southover Street) and Grove Street opposite.
You are warmly invited to rediscover, reinvent and re-imagine a street in Hanover – and explore how we can all make changes in the way we travel, to open up our streets for everyone to share.
Come out and play in the street, meet your neighbours, consult our living books in the human library, explore Hanover's streets and share your vision of how we could use them as community spaces. We'll be transforming Grove Street into a grove, with home made trees and colourful flowers - everyone's welcome to join in! Join us from 4-6pm at the Hanover Centre for inspiring films and discussion to wrap up the day.