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Eco-education & Visitor Centre focused on the conservation of the natural world. Please support our project by donating via our website PayPal button.

Beacon Hub Brighton is a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) Reg. Charity No. 1159583, which exists to develop a conservation education centre and to extend the Beacon Hill Local Nature Reserve. The reserve runs adjacent to the villages of Rottingdean and Ovingdean and within the boundary of the South Downs National Park. It is supported by Friends of Beacon Hill, a constituted group of enthusiastic local volunteers, working to maintain and promote the nature reserve

On the southern edge of the nature reserve is an 18 hole pitch and putt golf course which has fallen into disuse after it became uneconomic for the former lease holder to sustain as a viable business. The land belongs to Brighton & Hove City Council. In the north east corner of the golf course is a building which has previously been used as a café, toilets and golf kiosk. Beacon Hub Brighton has proposed to the council that it take over the lease and that the land be absorbed as a contiguous part of the nature reserve. It also proposes that the existing building be redeveloped into a 'hub' for community and educational use in relation to the ecology of the nature reserve and neighbouring beach which is a newly designated Marine Conservation Zone . Beacon Hub Brighton intends to create a classroom/exhibition space/venue/refreshment kiosk to generate income. We believe that the location offers a natural gateway into the South Downs National Park and potentially, a focal point and centre of excellence for the local (UNESCO) Biosphere initiative. At just a short bus ride from central Brighton, Beacon Hub Brighton will offer a unique opportunity for city dwellers of all ages to engage with and learn about the special chalk grassland and chalk reef environments and their wildlife.

22/10/2026

Stay clear of the shoreline.

11/10/2026

Nice clear definition

🏞️💧 Do you have a river, stream, ditch or culvert running through, beneath or alongside your land?

If so, you may be a riparian owner and have certain rights and responsibilities for maintaining the watercourse.

Visit our webpage to learn more about riparian ownership, landowner responsibilities and how they can help reduce flood risk ➡️ https://thefloodhub.co.uk/landowner/

11/10/2026

Another day of The Ocean Cleanup 💙

11/10/2026

If you haven’t heard already Hog Plat horse paddocks and stables are under threat. You can read more and support efforts to save it as a green space for the village here:

Help us purchase and protect the green space for our village,

20/09/2026

Would you like to know more about the Rottingdean Windmill restoration project?
Here you go :)

04/09/2026

Surfers Against Sewage took 340,000 petition signatures straight to the doors of Number 10 yesterday.

That’s 340,000 voices telling Andy Burnham: we demand a water industry that puts people and planet before profit.

And it turns out, the Prime Minister is listening...

Let’s keep up the pressure to ensure we and future generations can swim in the sea without worrying about poo💩
now!

And watch the Channel 4 documentary if you haven’t seen it yet, or watch it again with a friend who hasn’t. Change doesn’t happen without political pressure. Our signatures, emails to MPs, sickness reports on the SAS app and placards at SAS all help to keto the spotlight on the continued pollution of UK seas and rivers.

20/08/2026

This a bit like a WHICH? Magazine guide for supermarket eggs - useful?!
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Admittedly the title is a tad “click baity”, but I guess they have to grab people’s attention somehow!
🐔🐓🧑‍🌾
Ethical Consumer Magazine still does a great job of this type of investigative journalism if you’re interested.

Don’t want to listen to the various reasons why we should reject certain types of eggs? 🥚

Here’s Protect Our Plates’ list of the most ethical ones you can buy in supermarkets.

Waitrose - Blacktail
St. Ewe - Organic
Clarence Court - Burford Browns (check for crown stamp on genuine eggs)
Aldi - Organic
Lidl - Organic

In Rottingdean we’re lucky to have S.A Devesons Grocers on our High Street stocking ethical farm eggs for those that can afford to support local chicken farmers with high welfare standards.

We should also mention local farmer, Martin Carr, and thank him for hosting the High Barn Farm rescue hen egg delivery project. A much valued and sadly missed service.

An “egg-citing” topic to discuss?
Let us know in the comments below.

Link for you to share the video
https://youtu.be/J6wWwWEp0-Q?is=M7Dgo54L6Mihfu5g

We respect any copyright Protect Our Plates may have on this material and solely wish to amplify their good work.

Brown eggs may be quietly disappearing from British shelves, and mo...

19/08/2026

Here are Wayne Bolingbroke and his team from Bolingbroke Roofing Limited doing a super job on Beacon Hub Brighton’s roof. Just in time for last night’s much needed rain! HUGE THANKS to all of you for donating your time and the materials to do this. We are so very grateful!

If you’d like to support the project you can donate here https://beaconhubbrighton.org/support-us/

We’re busy putting ideas together for a fundraiser event to help us pay back the loan we got to install our new carpark gate. All ideas or offers of support with an event welcome!

Friends of Beacon Hill
Rottingdean Community
Rottingdean Arts
Rottingdean Smugglers
Rottingdean Heritage
Rottingdean and Saltdean Lions Club
Plastic Free Rottingdean

16/07/2026

HUGE THANKS to Gary Redding & Clive Dixon for standing guard and Sara De Marco for helping get the cones out this morning.

Our new car park gate has been delivered and will be installed at 8am tomorrow. We’ve been loaned the money to purchase the gate by a kind local benefactor.

MASSIVE THANKS to those of you who have donated already. Our fundraiser aims to pay the £2500 loan back by the end of the Summer.

We’ll be sharing some exciting news about our windows and a Sundowner Cocktail Party Fundraiser with you all soon.

In the meantime, if you can spare the price of a pint or even a little bit more we would be so very grateful.

You can donate here using the PayPal Donate button on our website
https://beaconhubbrighton.org/support-us/

All 5 Trustees are volunteers from the local community who are donating their time and energy to get “The Hub” back open.

They have children and jobs they have to volunteer around and are trying their best to get all the maintenance work done as quickly as they can.

If you live near Beacon Hill Nature Reserve, love Nature and have a bit of time to spare please consider joining our friendly group of Trustees. You can email us at [email protected]

South Downs National Park
The Living Coast Unesco Biosphere
Sussex Wildlife Trust
Sussex Dolphin Project
The Green Centre - Brighton
The Deans Beach & Environment Volunteers
RubyMoon Gym To Swim
Beach School East Sussex
CPRE Sussex

Address

Rottingdean Golf Pavilion, Marine Drive
Rottingdean
BN27HG

Telephone

+447767341059

Website

http://www.beaconhubbrighton.org/

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