Hanover Community Centre

Newly arrived in Hanover? Looking for evening activities or local community events? Look no further! Even if you’re a long time resident of the area, this place is a great resource, and if it has somehow passed you by, you’ll want to listen up!
The Hanover Community Centre is a lively and bustling locus of activity on Southover St. You need never complain of restlessness or boredom again, with such a diverse and exciting schedule of hobby and educational classes on offer. On any given evening of the week, you will find children’s dance classes, yoga (Iyengar, Hatha etc.), art and martial art classes. The Woodcraft Folk meet on Thursdays and there are also various language and exercise classes that regularly use the hall.
Look out for one off events and film screenings as well as fayres, fundraisers and the famous Hanover Beer festival in the Autumn. They also operate as an arts venue during the Brighton festival in May, so keep your eyes peeled for interesting events! The Christmas fayre is held in mid December and is always full of local artisans selling their crafts, as well as yummy festive treats! Definitely worth a visit…

Situated directly up Southover street, just off the centrally located Old Stein area of Brighton, up the long old hill, and past numerous pubs to stop in on the way (if you have the time and money) lies Hanover Community Centre. Of course, these location details are extremely important because it would be a travesty if one was to mistake this area with the one googlemap tells me is due east 437.04 miles in central Germany. It is not. Anyway, so now we are comfortable and secure in the knowledge of where exactly Hanover Community Centre is, lets continue.
The centre, although a relatively small and unassuming area fits the needs of the close knit local community perfectly and holds events regularly with a strong local presence attending. The annual Hanover Beer Festival is a perfect example of this.
Tightly cramming over a hundred people and 50+ kegs of beer, wine and cider from all over the U.K. into one marquee in the car park and large amounts of the profit going to charity, there is a real ram shackle old knees up feel about the festival. At the core of this old fashioned and uncommercialised event is underpinned a warming community vibe, which is generously and quite cheaply lubricated by Beers with such charming names as Old Chippers Nib and Arse’olé. The only thing missing here is Hugh Furnley-​Whittingstall and Cornwall, but to be honest in the excited countrified, fair atmosphere you quickly forget, which I think is a testament to an event run in a suburban area of a South-​Eastern city, and of course to the 8% cider which aides the easy transformation.
The Beer Festival though is one night in a year, and the Community Centre offers so much more than that, providing classes every week day in true Brighton spirit ranging from Breast Feeding to Tai Chi and Spanish Language.
Long I hope may Hanover Community Centre continue to provide such events, with a real human, relaxed, and community touch for many years to come, fending off the encroachment of corporate swag working its way around Brightons best kept secrets.
Hoorah and Cheers!