Hollingdean Celebration Day – 30 May 2026
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.
The Major gave a big thank you to one and all for fabulous groups, that gave their time to this event, it made the day magical.
What is the Climate in the Communities about?
We are part of a National Lottery funded partners called Climate for Communities. It’s a 3 -year programme (started March 2025) based in Brighton and Hove with a wide range of partners including us! Climate for Communities is a partnership of Brighton-based community, voluntary and social enterprise organisations working with local people to take action on the climate emergency. For further information go to Climate for Communities – TDC.
Meet our Hollingdean Outreach Worker – Polly Charlton
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!
About Polly
Polly has lived in Hollingdean since 2011 and is an active volunteer with Growing Hollingdean. Please contact Polly with any thoughts, questions or how to get involved: hollclime@hotmail.com
The climate survey we circulated in Spring 2026 has now ended and the results have been collated in the word cloud at the top of this page. How wonderful one of the main subjects to come from this is a sense of Community.
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Thanks to National Lottery players
Thanks to National Lottery players, The Trust for Developing Communities has been awarded almost £1.3 million over three years (started March 2025) to empower underrepresented communities in Brighton & Hove to participate in climate action.
In partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council, Community Works, Climate Outreach and 14 local organisations, the project will produce accessible, community-based climate activities, which address the increased cost of living and the health and wellbeing challenges being experienced by people as a result.
Description of the project aims
Putting all communities at the heart of climate action in Brighton and Hove.
Brings communities together
The long-term vision of the project is for the city to become a thriving ecosystem of accessible, inclusive and impactful climate activity, with a green economy that brings communities together with public, private, education and voluntary sectors to ensure a just and equitable transition to a sustainable future.
Supporting our work
This project is led by Trust for Developing Communities in partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council, Belta, BHESCo, Bridging Change, Brighton Chamber, Brighton and Hove LGBT Switchboard, Climate: Change, Climate Outreach, Community Works, Hollingdean Development Trust, Healthwatch Brighton and Hove, The Hangleton and Knoll Project, Moulsecoomb Community Market, Our City, Our World, Possibility People, Speakout, Sussex Interpreting Service, The Carer’s Centre for Brighton and Hove and The Living Coast. Brighton Repair Café, Freegle and Tech Take Back will be supporting our work.
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