Hanover News

Scriptease is a local group for scriptwriters who are developing work for theatre, radio, TV and film.

If you’re a new or an established writer who would like to hear your work read then get in touch. Scripts will be read out loud by local actors and receive constructive and supportive feedback from the group. They are always looking for actors too.

Their third monthly meeting will be held at:

Upstairs @ The Pub With No Name, Southover Street, Brighton

Tuesday: 30^th March 7.30pm (for 8pm start).

For further information please contact: lisa.fulthorpe@ntlworld.com or see their blog: www.scripteaseuk.wordpress.com

Inspired by looking at other people’s artwork? Fancy making some of your own?

For those who prefer to browse and buy there will be various craft stalls each Sunday and the café will be serving Fairtrade drinks and delicious cakes.

Susie is organising our Sunday craft fairs and is looking for local craftspeople who’d like to book a stall. Call her on 07939 590633 or email scourtault@yahoo.com.

On 17^th March Josie Jeffrey will be at the Hanover Centre to show grown-ups how to make seed bombs.  Come along and make a seed bomb with an edible salad mix for your own garden or window box – or make one that will attract bees when it flowers and try a spot of guerrilla gardening!

The cost is £2.50 per person and the workshop runs from 6pm to 8pm.

This is one of a series of workshops run by Brighton & Hove Food Partnership, some of which are suitable for children. For more information call 01273 431700 or email Roberta@bhfood.org.uk. Click here to see a flyer for the workshops.

Adults only. Booking recommended.

Our Valentine’s Day comedy evening was a great success – thanks to Gerry Bernstein, who herded up the artistes and compèred the evening and to the local comedians who rose to the challenge.

And our thanks are also due to the many volunteers who helped set up for the evening and put it all away afterwards.

Brighton Books publish ‘Hilly Laine to Hanover’ – a history of Hanover from green fields topped by windmills to the present day.

Archers still sell the best meat in Brighton, and no doubt plans for outings are still hatched in the Napier. Copies are available from Brighton Books or the Hanover Centre.

The Hanover Centre is looking for cleaners.

Our ideal would be local people who care about the Centre, want some part-time work, and can be flexible about the hours.

If you think this sounds like you, ring Iain on 694873 for a chat.

If you can help by displaying a poster, please download one here.

Kate’s Kitchen Band are back on 6th February to help us anticipate the first signs of spring. If you missed their previous visits to the Hanover Centre, now’s the time to find out what all the excitement’s about.

English traditional dance music at its best! View poster.

We were very sad to hear of the death of Sheila Schaffer on 30th December 2009. Sheila was a Hanover Councillor for more than ten years, including a term as Mayor of Brighton in 1995.

Her love of wildlife and concern for the environment was reflected in everything she did. Together with her colleague Joyce Edmond Smith, Sheila donated trees to be planted wherever an appropriate location could be found. Without them, Hanover wouldn’t be such a pleasant place to live.

A great friend and supporter of the Hanover Community Association, Sheila performed the official opening of the Hanover Centre garden by planting her gift of the flowering cherry tree.

While we were tidying up the Hanover Centre garden last autumn we decided to make a bug hotel to help our creepy-crawlies through the winter. It may not look that brilliant, but we’re hoping that from a bug’s eye view it’s as impressive as the Grand.

We made our hotel from some old pallets we had lying around, with hollow-stemmed prunings, leaves, rocks and tiles.

Here are some others made from brick & plywood,  chicken wire, and a very exciting construction starting with willow.

You can get one started any time of the year, but bugs will have already found their shelter for this winter. Why not make a bug hotel one of your summer projects?

Merry Christmas to everyone!

We’re looking forward to 2010 with lots of plans. We want to do more local social events, have more music evenings and start new and interesting classes. We hope you’ll like the new web site, and that we can use it to stay in touch with you.

Happy New Year!

We’ve just switched over to the new theme/style.

We think it is much clearer, and apart from one or two broken page links, it works! The old content is still looking a bit odd, because we used lots of categories to get around the limitations of the old set-up, picture sizes are a bit small, and so on.

So now we need to clean up the content and start to add more functionality (with care – often functions = clutter). Clarity and simplicity will be our guiding principles. Cutting back hard on the number of categories has to be a priority.

Let us know what you think.

This web site has been a source of embarrassment for some time.

The front page works OK (sort of) but the photo often doesn’t appear, and the dark background makes it difficult to read.

Your comments rarely appear under the posts you want to talk to us about, but sometimes we happen upon old comments by accident.

It’s very difficult to find your way around.

So it fails on reliability, readability, and accessibility. To be fair, it was only intended as a temporary fix to get us into the internet age. We planned to learn from it and build something better, but like so many temporary fixes it became a fixture by default.

Now we are doing something about it. We’ve upgraded the WordPress software behind it to the latest version, and so far everything seems to have carried on working as before. Over the Christmas period we will change over to a new structure and style based on clarity and simplicity. While we are doing this there will be times when the site is down, and times when it looks a bit odd, but after a few weeks it will settle down in its new format.

The Age of Stupid (film)

This film is about humans idiotic approach to the way we use natural resources, it is the climate blockbuster of the year and has received 5 stars from The Telegraph, The Times and the News of the World – a definite must see for greenies and sceptics alike.

Free but a donation bucket will be sent around – Bar – Sunday 29th November – 3.30 and 7.30 showings (come early to avoid disappointment).

Hanover Centre Festive Fair

Fundraiser for the Hanover Community Centre, exclusively with the Muesli Mountain Market, Hanover Christmas Tree Company and Talented local craft persons, also…
Games, Stalls, Hot Chestnuts, Santa Claus, Mulled Wine, FUN, FUN, FUN !!!
If you would like to run a stall then please call Susie on 07939 590 633

Saturday 12th December – 2pm – 6pm – 50p Adults, Little Elves Free !

Creative Kids Christmas Fair
There will be many seasonal delights on offer – unique last-minute gifts brought to you by local artists and ethical businesses, absorbing craft activities for the kids, badge making, lucky dip, games to play, free storytelling, and of course delicious home-made cakes, savouries, mulled wine, tea and coffee.
Saturday 19th December – 2PM – 4PM – 50p Adults – Kids Free

We want to get a good audience for our showing of “The Age of Stupid”.

If you are able to display a poster for us, please download one:

We are holding a ‘Grow Your Own’ public meeting on Saturday 21st March at 11am, to be followed by a seed swap. The meeting is also for everyone living within the charity’s “area of benefit” to decide on updates to our constitution. We hope starting our seed swap as soon as it finishes will guarantee a short – and quorate – meeting. (I hope that doesn’t sound too much like bribery!).

• Find out how to grow potatoes in an old compost bag!
• Admire the ingenious uses local gardeners find for other people’s rubbish!
• Sign up with Brighton & Hove Organic Gardeners Group!
• Take away gardening goodies
• Free refreshments

Come along to the Hanover Centre with your friends and family to pick up some ideas and what you need to get started on growing your own for the least possible outlay. Café open 10.45 am to 1pm.

Please bring anything gardening-related you’d like to share or re-home (leftover seeds, seed potatoes, seedlings, plants, tools, books, seed compost etc).

This is the poster for the event.

We’re hosting a session at the Hanover Centre on Saturday 21st March for people who would like to grow more of their own food – in the garden, in containers or on the windowsill. There will be more details here and on posters closer to the day when we know exactly what we can offer, but we can promise at the very least a seed swap and refreshments.

This is also the date for our AGM. We urgently need to modernise our constitution, so we’ll be asking Grow Your Own enthusiasts to help us vote in our shiny new constitution too.

Venue: Workshops for the Imagination
Address: 75 Islingword Road, Brighton, East Sussex BN2 9SL
Tel: 01273 818325

Event title: “Hanover Day Christmas Card workshops”
Description: Join Alex at Workshops for the Imagination to get tips and ideas how to design Christmas cards. Then you can enter the Hanover Day Christmas Card competition, and you might win a fabulous prize. For 4 years and over. 50p per entry to competition. Please book.
Audience: Family
Date/Time: 25 October, 10am -12noon and 2 – 4pm
Cost: No admission charge
Event: Free

The Global and the Local
Guest speakers from trapese, the world family & transition towns, activities, visioning & nice food!

Live Music;
THE MANJINGA 7
RIGHTCHEUS GYPSY SKA

Saturday 8th March
Hanover Community Centre

5.30-8.30pm Workshop and food!
8.30-11.30pm Music, dance and celebration!

Workshop & food & music: £10 limited places!
Live music from 8.30pm: £5
for workshop bookings & info 07753 278 492
or email

Gaia’s Gals are our resident womens art group. During the May festival they will be exhibiting their work in the Small Meeting Room, which is situated upstairs towards the back of the building.

Gaia’s Gals meet on Tuesday evenings at the Hanover Community Centre (7.30pm – 10pm). The group is led by artist Sue Nunn.

The cost of hiring the halls and meeting room will go up from the beginning of April 2008.

Category 1

- will be scrapped altogether

Category 2

- £6 per hour Monday – Friday daytime [until 6pm], £12 per hour weekday evenings, £15 per hour weekends [2-hour minimum on Saturday afternoon]

Category 3

- £25 per hour at any time. Minimum of 2 hours in all instances.

All one off bookings and bookings that end too late in the evening for another to follow will be subject to a minimum charge equivalent to 2 hours hire.

Special Party Rates

Childrens Parties; 2pm – 5pm [to include setting up and tidying up] Hire fee – £30 for Hanover Residents or £36 if you live outside the Hanover area. The Deposit will be £36 (this is in adition to the hire fee and is fully fefundable after the event provided all is well.)
Saturday Evening Parties (only available to Hanover Residents) are from 6pm – 11.30pm [to include setting up and tidying up] Hire fee – £75 & Deposit – £75 (this is in adition to the hire fee and is fully fefundable after the event provided all is well).