Climate for Communities in Hollingdean
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!
Next steps to keep the conversation flowing
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.
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