From successfully fundraising for a new playground to organising free arts workshops locally. From running an affordable food project to organising the local summer fayre. From running a family lunch club to planting a new orchard.

“I enjoy enabling new opportunities for the community. I have also been very involved in local campaigns. She said: “Since 2016, I have been an active community volunteer. Labour candidate Mitchie Alexander, 55, is a vegetable grower, retailer, shop assistant and community volunteer. “We would like to make sure that it receives more investment and that housing is made more affordable in these areas, has safer roads and enjoys improved access to the rest of the city and beyond.” Martin Farley and Laura Pizzolo said: “This area faces real issues relating to its relative isolation from the rest of the city and increasingly unaffordable housing. “I would seek to help these groups to find common ground and co-exist so that together we can work to improve transport links to the city centre and protect the green spaces we all cherish and enjoy.” “This wonderful ward brings together a variety of groups with diverse needs but I believe we have much to gain by collaborating. “Coldean and Stanmer is a set of self-contained communities nestled in the South Downs that hosts a large transient student population as well as the historic Stanmer Estate. “I would like to help harness that energy from the community and use it to empower our elected council to continue to improve the day-to-day lives of my fellow residents.” She said: “Since moving to Brighton and Hove, I’ve seen the great energy people have to come together as a community to celebrate, to help one another and to take on the larger issues we should all be concerned with such as climate change. Green Party candidate Laura Pizzolo, 42, is a communications manager.

Bring Me Home by Roz Alexander