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Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council and St Catherine’s Hospice have recognised their strong relationship and the hospice’s 40-year association with the people of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ at a recent plaque unveiling.Mayor of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½, Councillor Sharmila Sivarajah, and Leader of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council, Councillor Michael Jones, recently visited…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is exploring what a cultural quarter in the town centre could look and feel like, and it needs input from people who live, work, study and play in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½.Working with creative partners in the town, the council is asking local people to lend their voices to the consultation and speak up for the…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council recently organised its 32nd Junior Citizen event, attended by more than 1,600 Year Six students from 24 schools.Junior Citizen, a long-running event held at The Hawth, gives children advice on how to safely deal with potential dangers and teaches them valuable life skills. This year’s event was…

FreeShop Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ has received a funding grant of £66,000 from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) to continue to deliver the free community café and FreeShop offer at the Bewbush Centre.  The community café is a key part of the local community and helps reduce the impact of the cost of living for those in…

As part of the Cultural Quarter pop-up programme, the Dreamy Place Festival will be coming to Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Town Centre from Friday 4 October until Sunday 6 October where audiences can immerse themselves in the vibrant world of creative tech and arts.Produced by Videoclub, a Brighton-based agency supporting artists and…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is pleased to announce that the second recipient of its Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Greentech Business Growth Fund is Recycle2Trade Ltd, a pioneering small local business.Recycle2Trade has been awarded a grant of £45,100 for the development of a digital prototype to detect and monitor methane gas emissions from…

Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council is pleased to announce its 1,000th council home has been retrofitted by Mears Group as part of a £4 million Towns Fund project to improve energy efficiency in its housing stock through a ‘fabric first’ approach and save around 900 tonnes of carbon dioxide.The council is working with Mears Group…

Employ Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ successfully hosted its first jobs fair at the new Town Hall.With over 200 live vacancies on offer, around 300 jobseekers were able to speak directly to employers to discuss the various roles available in the local area.Local employers from a wide range of industries including retail, construction,…

Voluntary and community organisations working in Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ can now apply online for strategic grants of £5,000 or more from Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council.The council awards one-off and regular grants to organisations for new or existing projects or services that will benefit the people of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½. This funding programme is…

Councillor Michael Jones, Leader of Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ Borough Council, and Peter Lamb MP have jointly expressed their concerns over the recent announcement of job losses at St. Catherine’s Hospice.The links between the town and the hospice are strong and long held, with so many Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½ residents benefitting over the years from…