Hanover Action

Clean Water Now - tell your MP to take action Take action A new water law is coming. Soon, MPs will decide whether to finally clean up our rivers, lakes and seas − or let toxic pollution continue unchecked. Right now, sewage, farming pollution an...

I just emailed my MP through the #CleanWaterNow campaign 🌊 calling for a new water law to stop pollution and restore rivers, lakes and seas. Every voice matters – will you join me? action.friendsoftheearth.uk/target/clean...

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✅ your community
✅ with nature
✅ with yourself
Biodiversity action group’s wildlife garden makeover, Carlyle Street. 3 planters prepped for spring. See site 🔗 for location of our next planter makeover 🏡 See you there 🌱
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Newsletters, meeting notes, reports Minutes of meetings, Annual Reports, constitution and other information

Hanover Action’s AGM is this week (Wed, 7.30pm) All papers on the link below.
hanover-action.org.uk/general-meet...

Tickets going fast to meet your neighbours and share vegan food & drinks. We will screen Together We Grow - telling the inspiring story of Common Unity Project Aotearoa - a hub to build resilience into its local community. Tickets £5 donation at www.tickettailor.com/events/hanov...

Community film and food night by Hanover Action on Friday 23rd January, from 7pm, at the Hanover Community Centre

Meet your neighbours and share some simple vegan food, and drinks. We are screening Together We Grow - telling the inspiring story of Common Unity Project Aotearoa - a hub to build resilience into its local community. Get your Ticket for a donation at www.tickettailor.com/events/hanov...

✅ Connect with your community
✅ Connect with nature
✅ Connect with yourself
Our Biodiversity Action Group’s latest planter makeover. Hear the positive impact their gardening efforts on this street, and themselves.
Thanks to Karen, Jane, Lory, Ruth, Les for featuring! �
#StreetPlanter #HanoverAction

Are you in Hanover & Elm Grove? Please support MSc research survey explorIng how residential gardens contribute to climate adaptation, biodiversity conservation and human well-being.

Takes around 5 mins - you could win a £50 voucher if you do
universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳Vast areas of our most vital habitat are at risk of being lost forever.

Will you join Dame Judi Dench and @wildcard.land in calling for Forestry England to restore their Ancient Woodlands lost under timber plantations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

Public transport needs public toilets. Sian Berry is pushing to ensure access to toilets connected to public transport routes is guaranteed in local transport plans. public transport shouldn’t leave anyone behind. Brighton and Hove Green Party logo. graphic of a bus leaving a bus stop with a toilet next to it

🚍 Public transport shouldn't leave anyone behind.

That's why our MP @sianberry.bsky.social is pushing to ensure access to toilets connected to public transport routes is guaranteed in local transport plans.

🚽Public transport needs public toilets!

Why is the Government so tragically unenterprising when it comes to electric buses?

TfL has been procuring only electric buses since 2021, but Govt wants to wait until at least 2030 for a national mandate.

Dirty air is a killer, we need #EllasLaw and much (!) more ambition.

Only two weeks to go! Get your tickets now: www.edrc.ac.uk/events/talki...

Call for Action: support the petition to BHCC - very few people have despite Lewes Road being one of the most polluted in the City, leading to early deaths and poor air for the children in the local primary schools
Local NHS medical staff have initiated the petition.
www.change.org/.../reduce-t....

Bring back the ancient woodlands smothered beneath your timber plantations Ancient woodlands are vanishing – and with them, some of our most loved and endangered wildlife. Forestry England manages over 100,000 acres of land that used to be ancient woodland - that’s bigger th...

🌳 Dame Judi Dench is calling for the return of ancient woodlands. Will you sign the petition to help restore the Ghost Woods and protect our green spaces for future generations? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/br...

More residents say weeds in their roads are being treated despite opting out People living in a street that had opted out of the council’s weedkiller treatment were shocked to see workers applying

Upset from residents in #Brighton streets that have opted out from glyphosate weedkill treatment #LDreporter #Hove

www.brightonandhovenews.org/2025/06/06/m...

Hanover Action has signed The Repair and Reuse Declaration repairreusedeclaration.uk

You can support it by asking MPs to support it via repairreusedeclaration.uk/email-your-mp/
So far just 1/3 Brighton & Hove MPs has, and the City Council has not yet....

Tree Festival Event - join Branch Out on 14 June to hear from top tree and nature experts. All part of the: www.cpresussex.org.uk/tree-festival/branch-out/
Presentations and book signings! Discover more about how we can plant, protect and care for trees. Booking: www.cpresussex.org.uk/tree-festival/

Meet-up and Mend Workshop. Sat 14 June 2-4PM
Book your place, and bring your clothes mending or alteration project to this small workshop for help with completing it.

See full details in the Eventbrite listing 👉 Book your place
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-up-an...

Caryle Street planter make-over. A date for your diary to join us on:

Saturday 7 June 2.00PM

Meet in the Hanover Community Centre garden, for tool collection and walk to planter. Everyone is welcome to help out with our Hanover Garden Volunteers

Hanover Action Plant and seedling swap and sale ......

Come to the Hanover (& Elm Grove) Action "Plant and Seedling Sale & Swap". Saturday 10th May, 10.30AM-1.00PM

Opposite Constant Service pub, on the green space at the top of Islingword Road, Brighton. Everyone is welcome.

Wilding: Film screening (ticketed).

with post-screening discussion with Paul Gorringe of Wilding Waterhall, Brighton.

Sun 27th April, 2–4.00PM Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2 9UD. £5 donation

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilding-a-...

Wilding: Film screening (ticketed) LAST FEW TICKETS LEFT.
Post-screen discussion: Paul Gorringe, Wilding Waterhall. Sun 27 April, 2–4PM
All welcome. Hanover Centre 33 Southover St. Brighton, BN2 3PA
Suggested donation of £5 (or more) for each ticket is welcomed.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1284171303...

'Wilding' - a community film screening. Get ready for a wild ride at 'Wilding' - a community film screening where we'll gather to watch an epic movie together!

Wilding: Film screening (ticketed) SELLING FAST.
Introduced by Siân Berry MP, and post-screen discussion with Paul Gorringe of Wilding Waterhall, Brighton.
Sun 27 April, 2–4PM
Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2 9UD
Everyone is welcome.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1284171303...

Wilding film screening - image of Isabella Tree talking to wild pig

Wilding: Film screening. Sun 27 April, 2-4PM
Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2 9UD. Everyone welcome. A donation of £5 (or more) for each ticket is welcomed to cover the hire of film, equipment and venue, as well as ticketing costs.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../wilding-....

Wilding: Film screening (ticketed).

Introduced by @sianberry.bsky.social. Post-screening discussion with Paul Gorringe of Wilding Waterhall, Brighton.

Sun 27th April, 2–4.00PM Hanover Community Centre, 33 Southover Street, Brighton, BN2 9UD. £5 donation

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/wilding-a-...

What’s in the millions of tonnes of sludge spread on to UK farmland? Toxic waste – and ministers don’t care | George Monbiot Water companies let waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. When it is recklessly used as fertiliser, we are all at risk, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I don't often ask people to write to their MPs. But I think they might listen to you on this, as it's so jaw-droppingly awful, and they're almost certainly unaware of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Please also write to the Environment Secretary: steve.reed.mp@parliament.uk Thanks.

Go Green: Switch to a Fossil-free Bank UK high-street banks are financing the climate crisis. It's time to go green. Switch to a fossil-free bank today.

UK banks are financing the #climatecrisis

Move your money.

makemymoneymatter.co.uk/banks/#green...

ACT NOW: No New Oil! A once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate.

We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity to protect the climate, by putting an end to new oil and gas projects. Will you join me in signing the petition? www.stopcambo.org.uk/p/no-new-oil

The murmurations are such a Brighton institution, it’s a disaster to be losing the starlings for something so needless!

Please email your MP and ask them to support my Bill to ban pesticide use in public spaces: edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

Good to see that our Council now has guidance on how to halt the growing numbers of trip hazards and wheelchair obstacles - those cables crossing pavements used to charge kerbside electric vehicles.
@trevmu10.bsky.social
@livingstreets.bsky.social