Welcome to Community Base

Community Base is a charity providing a home for community and voluntary groups in Brighton and Hove and services to the local community. We use income from affordable services, including the provision of office space and the 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. To celebrate our tenth birthday in 2007 we made a short film about our work.

Real help for real people

The friendly, supportive environment provided by Community Base helps a wide range of charities and community groups work together, share their expertise and provide much needed services to the local community and beyond. Thousands of people get real help from groups at Community Base every year.

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 from our reception or our website in twelve languages other than English. Groups at Community Base provide help and support to a wide range of communities locally, throughout the UK and abroad.

Our reception

Community Base's reception greets visitors to groups at Community Base and deals with hundreds of enquiries about local community services every month. In our reception you can pick up leaflets, local newsletters or a free copy of our poster guide to local community services or browse folders with details of local volunteering and community job opportunities. Our reception is normally open Monday to Friday 8.30am to 4.30pm. You can contact our reception on (01273) 234000 or by email.

Our online services

Community Base runs four free online information services

• Brighton and Hove community job search helps people find local community jobs
• Brighton and Hove service search helps people find local community services
• Brighton and Hove volunteer search helps people find volunteering opportunities with local community and voluntary groups
• Brighton and Hove venue search helps people find local venues for hire.

Our other activities

• We distribute our annual poster guide to community services in Brighton and Hove to community groups, council offices, charities, health centres and a wide range of other services and organisations across Brighton and Hove every January
• We provide local charities and community groups with a range of services including help with fundraising and a free postal address service
• We host open days, working lunches and annual meetings for refugee week
• Community Base is a member of NCVO, Bassac and Brighton and Hove Community Buildings Network
• You can find Community Base on facebook, twitter and YouTube.

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.