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its and bobs<br />
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cats of hanover<br />
“More people in Hanover than you’d expect are cat owners,”<br />
says Charlie Doidge, whose house has one official cat<br />
resident, Bling, pictured right, and two others who regularly<br />
drop in uninvited. Hanover’s cats were featured in a BBC2<br />
documentary, Cat Watch, last autumn, and Hanover’s cat<br />
owners currently stay connected on a Facebook page, Cats<br />
of Hanover, where they chat, post pictures of missing cats,<br />
share new cat paraphernalia on the market, and suchlike.<br />
“One resident, an elderly chap, lost his cat, and the Hanover<br />
community on social media played a large part in bringing<br />
her home” she continues. “Unfortunately she had been run<br />
over and was badly hurt. The chap couldn’t afford vet fees so we decided to club together: I asked people to<br />
put money through my letterbox, and we raised over £500, which was enough to help him avoid incurring vast<br />
debt.” Thus heartened, Ken and Eva, the group owners, decided to organise another fund-raising endeavour:<br />
an art exhibition in which cat owners are invited to paint or draw their cats, frame the pictures, and the images<br />
will be exhibited, and put up for sale, throughout <strong>June</strong> in the Dover Castle pub. Proceeds go to the Lost Cats<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong> charity. Bling, incidentally, stars in a book written and illustrated by Charlie, Boris and Bling. He isn’t<br />
pink in real life. eva@ohsoswedish.com<br />
goodmoney art competition<br />
<strong>Brighton</strong>-based social enterprise Goodmoney are launching a new giftvoucher<br />
scheme for local independent businesses. And they’re giving<br />
local kids the chance to see their designs printed on the greetings cards<br />
that accompany the vouchers, in a competition open to anyone 16 and<br />
under living in the <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove area. The vouchers are part of a<br />
scheme devised to encourage people to favour local independent businesses<br />
over national and international chains, and thus to keep money<br />
circulating in the local economy. It is all set to start up in September:<br />
over 80 <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove businesses have already signed up and many more are likely to have followed suit<br />
by then. There will be three different categories in the competition, for under 8s, 9-11s and 12-16-year-olds,<br />
and the design should be inspired by what the young artist loves about the local area. Designs should be<br />
square(ish)-format and at least 20cmx20cm, and a photo or scan of the design must be submitted online at<br />
goodmoney.co.uk/enter by 15th July. They will then go up in an online gallery. Two winners of each age group<br />
will be announced on September 1st, the first voted for by the public, the second by a panel of judges, which<br />
will include Caroline Lucas and <strong>Viva</strong> <strong>Brighton</strong>’s Art Director Katie Moorman. The scheme is free for local<br />
businesses to get involved in; they can find out more by watching Goodmoney CIC’s video at goodmoney.<br />
co.uk/video. For more information visit Goodmoney’s website, or email Dan Webb on dan@goodmoney.co.uk<br />
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