"Reaching for Gold is a new competition to encourage innovation and
creativity in young people - essential skills for the industries that will
lead us out of recession. 14-19 year olds across the South East are invited
to put forward ideas that can make a practical difference to society.  The
themes for the competition are Youth, Community and Disability.  

Online applications are being sought from across the South East,
particularly targeting those living or working with disadvantage or
disability, through Community & Voluntary Organisations and/or schools. The
competition is now 'open for applications' and will close at 5pm on the 21st
August 2009. All the documentation, guidance and resources are available on
the website: www.reachingforgold.org.uk

Join Old Spice, the cooking club for

older men.

Old Spice is a LifeLines/Brighton & Hove Food Partnership project set up to develop basic cookery skills and healthy eating on a budget for men over 50.

If you find yourself a stranger in your own kitchen, then this is the ideal opportunity to join us, make new friends and get stuck into cooking – it promises to be a challenge, but great fun too.

Old Spice is an eight-week course that will cover a wide range of cookery skills – setting up a larder, basic ‘prep’ skills, cooking for one, exploring different ways of cooking, making sauces, tasty stir- fry, salads, creating menus – even entertaining.  Each week, you will prepare and eat a meal based around the week’s theme.

Whitehawk and Manor Farm residents are invited to have their say about crime and crime prevention at the monthly meetings of the Whitehawk and Manor Farm Crime Prevention Forum/Local Action Team.

The meetings take place on the last Wednesday of each month at 10.30am in the Valley Social Centre, Whitehawk Way. The forum is also surveying residents to ask them what other times and venues might suit them.

Children on bicycles are being used by cocaine dealers to peddle drugs on the streets.

The youngsters are being pushed into work by criminals in the Whitehawk area of Brighton, where police carried out one of a series of raids on suspected drug dens yesterday.

It is thought to be the first time city criminals have resorted to using children as drugs mules.

Police claimed the dealers were exploiting the youngsters as a cheap and easy way to deliver cocaine and other drugs to their customers.

Officers yesterday said they believed teenagers were carrying the substances away from a “stash house” based in a flat on the Whitehawk estate.