Community Base is a charity providing a home for community and voluntary groups in Brighton and Hove. We use income from affordable rent and services, including use of our South Wing meeting rooms, to repay a mortgage on our accessible seven floor building a few minutes from Brighton station and meet our running costs. You can view a short film about Community Base here.

A multicultural community centre
Community Base is a truly multicultural community centre, providing a home to groups offering real help to local black and minority ethnic communities alongside groups providing services to the wider community. Our annual poster guide to community services in Brighton and Hove is available in twelve languages other than English to help non-English speakers get help when they need it.

Real help for real people
The friendly, supportive environment provided by Community Base helps a wide range of not-for-profit, non-governmental organisations work together, share their expertise and provide much needed services. The diversity of these services reflects the variety of local need – groups are involved with homeless people, people with learning disabilities, bereaved people, carers, volunteers, refugees, community activists, travellers and many others. Thousands of people get real help from groups at Community Base every year.

Our reception
Community Base's reception provides information about groups at Community Base and other local community services. You can pick up a free copy of our poster guide to community services in Brighton and Hove and translations of this guide into twelve languages at our reception or browse folders with details of all volunteer opportunities listed on Brighton and Hove volunteer search. Our reception is normally open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. You can contact our receptionist Deborah Sprackling on (01273) 234000 or by email.

Our online services
Community Base runs three online information services
•  Brighton and Hove volunteer search helps people find volunteer opportunities with local community and voluntary groups
•  Brighton and Hove service search helps people access local community services
•  Brighton and Hove venue search helps people find local venues for hire.

Our other activities
Community Base offers support to local community and voluntary groups whether they licence space with us or not. We also host events such as open days, working lunches and refugee week meetings to discuss community issues and promote the work of the local community and voluntary sector. We publish Community Base news every six months and a development plan every five years. Community Base is a member of NCVO, bassac and Brighton and Hove Community Buildings Network. You can become a fan of Community Base on facebook.

Our values
Community Base's activities are guided by our core values which include a commitment to ensuring the existence of a strong, independent and diverse community and voluntary sector as an essential element of a democratic society. We are also committed to reducing our carbon footprint and have signed up to 10:10.