We are celebrating mental health charities this week for our Charity Tuesday feature, so Right Here Brighton and Hove are in the spotlight. Right Here Brighton and Hove is a partnership between YMCA DownsLink Group and Mind in Brighton and Hove, working with 13-25 year olds in Brighton and...
So, it’s come round so very fast. This week is the 10th week of Be Brightonian and it’s been fabulous to meet some wonderful people along the way. To celebrate this occasion I have decided to do a ‘Behind the Counter’ special. This special is focused on the awesome guys at...
We’re back with our regular Charity Tuesday feature. However, today is actually Giving Tuesday, a worldwide event which encourages people to give back to society. This week we’re focusing on a charity that’s a little bit different to the others. Carousel is a charity that enables those with learning...
Brighton is home to many things. Wonderful independent shops, a football team with a very loyal fanbase, an abundance of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and a small, unknown chocolate shop called ChoccyWoccyDooDah. I am of course joking when I say unknown, the chocolate shop has gained worldwide fame after...
Everyone loves going out to dinner, it's our chance to be daring and adventurous with food, to try something we may not normally have at home. But what if you went that step further? The Blink Experience is a dining experience in which you spend an hour and a...
Joe Hogben and Andrew LePage are no strangers to the Brighton music scene. Performing at least twice a week at open mic nights all across town, they have already made a reputation for themselves. Sharing a love for music, especially the blues, they have perfected the art of wowing...
Judith Blincow owns The Mermaid Inn in Rye, the most haunted and one of the oldest inns in Britain. Following an overnight Bjournal investigation which, disappointingly, did not yield a single unearthly manifestation, Graham and Elin caught up with Judith in a beautiful wood-panelled salon in the world-famous establishment,...
Earlier this week Jordy Hurdes from Australia recorded this video for his friends on Facebook. The week before he had been to a party where he took Ecstasy, and ended up in a hospital bed. This is his message.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhcUK_R-Lac
Melanie Arora published her first children's book this year and the copies seem to be flying of the shelfs. Only a few months in she is now published in Paris and next year her poetic book'A Cat Called Panda' will be published in the United States of America.
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This week for Charity Tuesday we are focusing on Impetus. Impetus is a registered charity that improves the lives of disadvantaged and vulnerable adults in Brighton and Hove. Established December 1999 and until 2012, there were two sides to their activities. One side was the provision of frontline services...
