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Village MCC members raise £300 for the Peter Tatchell Foundation

Members of The Village MCC Brighton and Hove (Village MCC) raised £300 for the Peter Tatchell Foundation during Brighton Pride.

Peter Tatchell and Rev Michael Hydes
Peter Tatchell and Rev Michael Hydes

Peter was the guest speaker at their annual Pride service at the Somerset Day Centre on Sunday, August 6, part of the Pride Voices series of speakers.

Peter Tatchell Director of Peter Tatchell Foundation, said: “BIG thanks to the @TheVillageMCC in Brighton for the £300 collection for the LGBT & human rights work of the @PT_Foundation GRATITUDE!”

Rev Michael Hydes, Senior Pastor of the Village MCC, added: “We were so grateful Peter was able to attend our Pride Service. His experience in the field of Human Rights is unparalleled.  The Foundation is spread incredibly thin with all the varied issues it takes on and we are honoured to be able to help in this small way.”

The Peter Tatchell Foundation (PTF) seeks to promote and protect the human rights of individuals, communities, and nations, in the UK and internationally, in accordance with established national and international human rights law. The Foundation is independent and non-party political.

To view a full recording of the Q&A session, click here:

The Village MCC Brighton and Hove was created by LGBTQ Christians, their families, friends, and allies. It’s a Metropolitan Community Church (MCC) called to support the LGBTQ community in whatever ways it can.

Church members are active in the wider community, offering emergency aid and support to the homeless and vulnerably housed. Their minister, Rev. Michael, offers spiritual direction and pastoral care.

The Village MCC worship together at the Somerset Day Centre in Kemptown, every Sunday evening at 6pm.

Everyone is welcome to go along and experience the inclusive spirit of The Village MCC.

For more information about The Village MCC, click here:

 

New grass roots housing coalition launches this weekend

New grass roots housing campaign launches this weekend – based on “action not words”!

A collection of grass root community organisations will come together on Saturday (August 19) at the Kemp Town Crypt Community Centre, St George’s Road, Kemp Town, Brighton to adopt the aims and objectives of the newly formed Brighton and Hove Housing Coalition.

Caroline Lucas MP for Brighton Pavilion and Lloyd Russell-Moyle MP for Brighton Kemptown & Peacehaven will attend the launch event this Saturday to answer questions from more than 200 housing activists in Brighton.

Around 20 organisations are coming together to establish a Housing Coalition that will challenge the “moribund policies of the City Council and national Government”.

Steve Parry
Steve Parry

Steve Parry, acting Chair of the Coalition, said: “With co-operation on this scale we intend to challenge in a real way homelessness, housing squalor, housing for profit rather than for people, and the payment of £millions to overseas tax havens for so-called emergency and temporary accommodation”

He emphasised that “the Coalition is bringing together those that build homes with those that occupy empty properties, those that help feed the homeless and those that will be opening up community night shelters, those that have a vision for all to have a right to shelter and those who are advocating for those discriminated against by our local authority due to vulnerability or disability.”

Larissa Reed, the newly appointed Executive Director for Neighbourhoods, Communities and Housing at the City Council will be spending an hour discussing the policy and practice of the council.

Council residents, leaseholders, private renters, the homeless, and those in temporary accommodation will be working together and participating in workshops ranging from Community led housing to ‘Alternative housing choices and well-being in later life’, from Living Rents to the horrors of some privately rented housing, from accessibility to the need for respect to be shown to those who are disabled or vulnerable.

The conference will take place at Kemp Town Crypt Community Centre, St George’s Road, Kemp Town, Brighton BN2 1ED with registration from 9am

To register to attend, click here:

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