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ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp 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…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council is pleased to announce that the second recipient of its ºù«ÍÞapp 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…

ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp can now apply online for strategic grants of £5,000 or more from ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp. This funding programme is…

Councillor Michael Jones, Leader of ºù«ÍÞapp 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 ºù«ÍÞapp residents benefitting over the years from…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council has launched a consultation for residents in ºù«ÍÞapp aimed at providing an understanding of how economic pressures have affected residents over the last couple of years. This will help the council to shape its services going forward.The survey closes on 23 September and can be completed via our…

ºù«ÍÞapp Borough Council is supporting a major report, which aims to improve how council housing is managed and developed.The report, called Securing the Future of Council Housing, details the current issues in the system and calls on the government to make changes to safeguard council housing.It has been commissioned…