The Jeder workshops are a gathering for people who are building inclusive, active communities – VCSE organisations, residents and local authority colleagues who believe that lasting change starts within communities.

There are four workshop days taking place across East Sussex and you are welcome to join one, two, three or even all four days.

Please book through eventbrite via links or QR codes – People from all sectors welcome.  Any queries contact [email protected]

There is an enclosed courtyard space at Jackson Hall that was out of bounds for many years, as it featured bricks with crumbling mortar, and a wall at risk of collapse.

In line with their corporate social responsibility commitments, a team from Balfour Beatty visited the Jackson Hall site to clear the overgrowth and repair the walls.

Since then, an alternative education provider that operates from Jackson Hall, Enjoycation, have brought the space back into use, and are turning it into a learning garden!

Team HVA are supporting the project as part of their staff volunteering hours, including painting the walls and carrying bucket after bucket of gravel into the space.

There is more work to come, but we are so pleased that these collaborative efforts have enabled us to bring the abandoned space back into use.

If you’d like to make a donation towards the Learning Garden, you can do so here.

The University of Brighton and East Sussex County Council are working together to support local voluntary and community organisations to do their own research. They are delivering ten online and in-person workshops on topics including: designing research, collecting data, analysing it, and presenting findings. You can take part whether you are new to doing research, or have some experience already. You can come to all the workshops or just some of them.

Workshop schedule: www.ticketsource.com/research-ready-communities-workshops

Further information on the Research Ready Communities programme and the Research Collaborative Hub: https://www.eastsussexinfigures.org.uk/jsna/research-collaborative-hub-rch/

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