The Round Hill Society

Welcome

Welcome to the website of the Round Hill Society. Past issues of our printed newsletter 'The Round Hill Reporter' can be downloaded (in PDF format) from here.

Our Local Tradespeople page also contains a large store of useful information for residents whose concerns are closer to home.

Our Support For Older People page covers services of interest to
the over 50s and those of any age-group giving support to older people wishing to remain in their homes.

A good way to get a better understanding of local community is to participate in planning consultations (e.g. the future of The Level, The Open Market & London Rd shopping area, CPZs, Waste Disposal). Our planning section will brief you on these and other concerns such as parking or the protection of Round Hill's open spaces

Live bus departure boards for
The Round Hill and The Open Market and Brighton Station Stop H.

Artists' Open Houses near Round Hill.
AOH will reach its 31st year in May 2012 - see what is on offer North of The Level in this year's Brighton Festival in the vicinity of Round Hill. Independent from those taking part in Artists Open Houses, is a single Round Hill venue, open every weekend in May from 11am to 5pm:
The House of Tattered Treasures 76 Princes Road
Regular listings
1. The Duke of York's Picture House
2. Coachwerks, Hollingdean - this month's events
3. Brighton & Hove Arts Diary
4.Arts | Music | Theatre | Cinema
5. Sussex Concerts
6. East Sussex CC: Music, Art & Cultural Events
7. Prince Regent Swimming Complex Pools Programme
Cheap Swimming for 50s +
8. www.visitbrighton.com for this month's events in the city centre.
9. Brighton Festival and Fringe 5th -27th May 2012

Tuesday 15th May 2012 1.10pm-1.55pm - Steve Dummer (clarinet) Yoko Ono (piano) - Brahms Clarinet Sonatas op.120 in F minor & E flat major. Live lunchtime concerts are held on Tuesdays between 1.10 to 1.55 at the Chapel Royal, North St, Brighton. Admission: £2.50 on the door. Children free. Yearly season tickets £75.
Wednesday, 16th May 2012 Christopher Harris - Piano. St Nicholas's Church Lunchtime Recitals.
Thursday 17th May 2012 at 1pm
Lunchtime Recitals at All Saints Church Hove - Luca Luciano clarinet. Original compositions and arrangements of music by Kurt Weil, Puccini & Vivaldi.
Thursday 17th May 8pm - Folk Music (upstairs) at The Royal Oak Pub, Station Street Lewes. JOHN KIRKPATRICK.
Saturday 19th May 2012 2:30pm - Friends of Hollingbury and Burstead Woods - Annual General Meeting - The Brian Foster Environment Centre Dorothy Stringer School, Stringer Way,
off Surrenden Road, Brighton, BN1 6PZ
Guest speaker – Dr Dan Danahar.
Easy access trail. Click here to learn about Hollingbury Hillfort.
Saturday 19th May at 7.30pm St Bartholomew's Brighton, Ann Street, just off the London Road (A23) opposite Boots. Sussex Symphony Orchestra - an evening of opera - Arias, duets and more from some of the world's favourite operas, including: Macbeth, Tosca, Carmen, Pagliacci,
Cavalleria Rusticana and Porgy and Bess.
Friday 8th June 2012 7.30pm St Luke's Church, Queens Park Road BN2 0GG - Teos Chamber Duo: Kreeta-Julia Heikkilä (violin) and Roope Gröndahl (piano) - these two compelling and successful Finnish musicians present well-known works from the early 20th century for violin and piano by Sibelius, Bartok and Prokofiev and the lesser known Sonatina for violin and piano by the Finnish composer, Leevi Madetoja.
Tuesday 12th June 8pm - English folk sessions at the Sir Charles Napier in Hanover. A new session on the second Tuesday of each month in this friendly pub. Bring an instrument - beginners welcome!
Round Hill Community Research
Thank you to everyone who filled in our survey. We plan to publish the resulting report in June/July to everyone in the area. You can find out more about CUPP at www.brighton.ac.uk/cupp. Researchers from the university or anybody wishing to learn more about Round Hill will find resources on this website which may assist with several lines of enquiry.

Journals on Round Hill
10 years of The Round Hill Reporter
You can now purchase the omnibus edition of the Round Hill Reporter - a bound volume of the first 40 issues, published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Round Hill Society for £6.45 plus postage.

Purchase omnibus edition from lulu.com
Books on Round Hill and surroundings
Rose Hill To Roundhill
a Brighton community
London Road
Brighton's First Suburb
Outdoor ideas for all age groups

1. Become a Friend of your local park

2. Help to maintain your local woodland 3. Try our page of unguided, guided, longer and shorter walks and related outdoor pursuits. Walks from The Argus: a quick summary of forthcoming guided walks. Round Hill Walks: downland circuit (bus and on foot) starting and finishing in Round Hill

4. Read the Council Ecologist's Wildlife Review of 2011.

5. Become a Nature Warden - photograph and log the wildlife you see in Brighton and Hove on the Council Ecologist's website at www.citywildlife.org.uk.

6. Outdoor shopping: which stalls are still there?

Open Houses and The Arts
Eco Open Houses: Brighton & Hove will be back between 25th and 28th October 2012. To catch up on past eco-houses events: view the Programme for 2011 and read the Final report of the Eco Open Houses 2010.
Artists' Open Houses near Round Hill.
AOH will reach its 31st year in May 2012 - see what is on offer North of The Level in this year's Brighton Festival in the vicinity of Round Hill.
Learn a musical instrument - since the time of the Prince Regent, Brighton has gained a reputation for music teaching and performance. The abundance of teachers in our city means that it is easy to find help in learning an instrument.
Courses at The Friends' Centre
Local food production & gardening
Brighton and Hove Food Partnership has produced a questionnaire on Food related issues which local residents can complete and has also elicited answers to the questions from Conservative, Green, Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates who stood in the May 2011 Council Elections.

Brighton and Hove Food Partnership -Training courses for growers, tips (PDF downloads) for gardeners, volunteering roles in community projects RE local food production, eating healthily & sustainable growing.
Harvest Brighton and Hove:
1) Local Food Week and Events
2) Community Food Events
3) Training on growing and cooking
4) Volunteering
Brighton Permaculture Trust - Brighton Permaculture Trust have published their schedule of events and courses for the year and are taking bookings. Details at www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk.
See also:
1) The Friends Centre's ONE PLANET LEARNING environmental awareness and sustainable living
2) Seedy Sunday : the UK's biggest community seed swop. Click here for the Event's history
3) Brighton and Hove Organic Gardening Group's Events.

Elected representatives
CONSTITUENCY MPs: May 2010 General Election Results in Brighton Pavilion constituency.

WARD COUNCILLORS: 2011 Council election results
Greens increase their seats from 13 to 23 to become the largest Green group of councillors in the country.
54 seats
23 Green
18 Consevative
13 Labour
St Peter's & North Laine (Council ward which includes Round Hill)

Lizzie Dean - Green Party 3407 22% Elected
Ian Davey - Green Party 3132 20% Elected
Pete West - Green Party 3043 19% Elected

Quick links
Links to some other recent stories, events or useful pages.

Community	Planning
National Park Walks	Ashdown Road
Street Party	Carelet plan approved
Lamp Post Quiz	Life near The Dump
Residents Parking	Planning permission
Virtual Reference	LDF
Local Artists	Sustainable Building
	London Road
About	Environment
Conservation Advisors	B&H Transition
Round Hill Snow	Street lamps

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This page was last updated by Ted on 14-May-2012