The Copper Collective: Brighton & Hove Youth Collective needs your copper

Calling ALL Businesses in Brighton and Hove

Youth Collective needs your COPPER

A group of 8 youth organisations who are collectively called the Brighton and Hove Youth Collective are reaching out to local businesses to help them with their Copper Collective; a 3 month fundraising campaign launched in September this year. The aim of the campaign is for the city to support young people who are engaging in fundraising by asking all schools, businesses, families and community groups to collect in their 1p and 2p copper coins in time for Christmas. The group will then collect up and count all the donations and set up a youth panel to decide how the money should be best spent.

The Brighton and Hove Youth Collective is an organisation which is made up of eight youth clubs which support young people across Brighton and Hove. They are The Young People's Centre (YPC), Crew Club, Deans Youth Project, Brighton Youth Centre, Tarner Community Project, Hangleton and Knoll Project, The Trust for Developing Communities and Sussex YMCA. They are all registered charities.

These eight groups who previously worked independently have recently changed their approach and now work together to deliver a more efficient and co-ordinated programme of youth activities across Brighton and Hove. The "Youth Collective" delivers a 'co-produced' service with projects and programmes to develop and deliver an innovative, co-ordinated and responsive service to better meet the needs of young people living in the city.

Conservative MP Mike Weatherly commented: “The Brighton & Hove Youth Collective is a brilliant programme that engages with such an important group across the city. It is clear that the Youth Collective has a huge amount of support locally and that their services are well used and well respected. I would encourage anyone who is interested in the work of the Youth Collective to visit their excellent website at www.brightonandhoveyouthcollective.org.uk.”  

Having launched in September, it is hoped that over the next few months the Brighton and Hove Youth Collective will have collected in most of Brighton & Hove's copper coins. The money will be put towards the worthwhile activities and services that help support young people across the city. Although the Collective receive central funding, this only provides the basic support.

Locations across the city have been identified where people can drop off their Copper Coins and new supporters are being identified each week. Current locations supporting the activity are - Sussex County Cricket Ground, The Velo cafe on the Level, The café at New England House and each of the eight Youth Collective sites. Schools taking part are: Roedean, Dorothy Stringer and Varndean currently.

If you are interested in donating please visit www.brightonandhoveyouthcollective.org.uk. Or if you wish to act as a Collective Collection Point please email: hello@brightonandhoveyouthcollective.org.uk.

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