July 2021
While the government has ended legal restrictions, Brighton Permaculture Trust will continue to take a cautious approach and follow the permaculture ethic of People Care. We are intent on providing a safe environment for everyone, respecting the needs of all participants and their contacts.
Brighton & Hove has a high and rising Covid case rate. We recommend everyone follows the advice on the Brighton & Hove Council website.
Our strategy through to summer 2022 will be to continue to deliver most of our activities outdoors or online.
Outdoor activities
We are still requesting people to maintain distancing of at least one metre at all our outdoor activities.
We strongly recommend that participants in our all our face-to-face activities do regular lateral flow tests.
Indoor activities
If you are attending a course that involves spending time indoors we will require you to do a lateral flow test the day before the course.
You must wear a face mask when inside any of our venues and maintain one metre distancing indoors.
Volunteering
We have lots of regular weekly volunteering opportunities. To be kept informed of what volunteering opportunities are coming up please sign up to our volunteer email list.
Courses
Our Introduction to permaculture and Permaculture design courses are being run as virtual lessons with optional in-person visits. More dates for these courses will be announced soon.
The Self-building an Earthship in Europe virtual course is entirely online.
We are adapting many of our other courses to be delivered outside or via a mix of Zoom sessions and outdoor practical sessions.
We have suspended booking on many of our in-person weekend courses for the time being. Please contact us via the relevant course page to be added to a waiting list. We will re-open bookings when we have confirmed course dates, letting the people on the waiting list book first.
If you have a course booking you need to discuss please contact us
Events
We are planning an orchard tour at Home Farm Orchard at Stanmer when the apples are ready for harvest later this year. Please sign up to our newsletter to hear about this and any other events.
How to Support Us and Keep in Touch
If you would like to support Brighton Permaculture Trust, please consider making a donation, you could also purchase a gift voucher for a future course.
We can be found making fruit juice and selling our produce and nursery plants at the Fruit Factory in Stanmer Village at weekends from 11am-3pm. Come and say hello, and buy some freshly pressed apple juice. Find out more about our products and where to buy them.
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Permaculture design can make a huge contribution toward creating practical, resilient and diverse solutions that will help support our friends, families, communities and our planet to flourish.