Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion will be attending the Trans Remembrance Service on Sunday (22) at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church from 2-4pm.
Caroline Lucas, the Green MP for Brighton Pavilion will be attending the Trans Remembrance Service on Sunday (22) at Dorset Gardens Methodist Church from 2-4pm.
Caroline Lucas MP named as top MP for representing minority communities during the last five years by the Patchwork Foundation.
People in Brighton are most likely to raise money and/or campaign for international charities, in the UK according to the Attitudes to International Aid survey.
Green Councillors call public meeting to discuss plans to save Brunswick Town Post Office at The Old Market, Hove, on Thursday, September 3, at 6pm. As part of a campaign to stop the closure of Brunswick Town’s Crown Post Office at 22 Western Road, local Green councillors are organising a ‘World Cafe’ public discussion to draw together ideas on how to secure its present location and stop plans to merge it into Melville Road Crown Post Office at 20 Melville Road, by Seven Dials (BN3 1UB), in January 2016.
Green councillors to join this year’s Trans* Pride solidarity march on Saturday, July 25. 2015 marks the third year of the festival and second year of the Trans* Pride march, which was created to promote equality and celebrate the gender diversity and unique histories to be found across the city’s trans communities.
Yesterday’s Full Council meeting at Brighton Town Hall voted in favour of a Green Group motion calling for the government to strengthen PSHE education, which teaches skills for life, to be given statutory status.
Terrence Higgins Trust (THT) has congratulated Brighton and Hove’s newly-elected MPs, saying they have a prime opportunity to raise awareness of HIV in Parliament, in the most affected area for HIV in the UK outside of London. Figures show 1,487 people are living with diagnosed HIV in Brighton and Hove. The rate of diagnosed HIV in the city is seven per 1,000 people, compared with a UK rate of two per cent.
The Brighton and Hove LGBT Community Safety Forum is hosting LGBT Hustings ahead of this year’s elections in May. This will be your chance to find out more about your candidates, why they are running and what they will do for you and the LGBT community if they are elected. It is your chance to question the candidates on their records, why they should be re-elected, why you should vote for them and importantly, what positions they have taken since the last elections on issues affecting the LGBT community here in Brighton and Hove, nationally and internationally.
The Liberal Democrats have announced their candidates for Regency ward at the coming council elections. The Regency ward seats are currently held by the Green Party council leader Jason Kitcat and his wife Ania, however the Lib Dems have their eyes set on taking back the seats they previously held. The newly appointed candidates are a long-standing Regency ward resident and a 21-year-old University of Sussex student.
Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, will open Vegfest, one of Europe’s most popular vegan festivals, at the Brighton Centre on Saturday, March 28 at 11 a.m.
Crowds flock to Vegfest each year for its eco-friendly vegetarian/vegan themed exhibits showcasing a wide selection of vegan food stalls, cookery demos and talks.