Funding our initiatives

Restoring our Victorian Street Tree Heritage

Our Victorian Tree Heritage campaign was set up in 2012. Each year we work with residents in various parts of the city to progress street tree planting in their area.

To date we have planted between 10 and 40 trees each year. Planting has taken place in York Road/Montepellier Place (2012), Marmion and Stoneham Roads (2013) and Bigwood Avenue (2014). Shakespeare and Coleridge Streets ( 2015) , Portland Road (2018) and Hove Junior School (2020).

We expect this campaign to last for many years – the speed at which we can progress will ultimately depend on donations we receive.

Our Street Tree Angel and Cherub scheme encourages annual contributions towards planting a tree (or half the cost of a tree) and these funds allow us to support local residents to take a scheme forward in their area.

Until recently one tree costs us £314. This has now gone up to £415.

To contribute to our fund please complete the relevant parts of the membership form  to sign up to become a street tree angel or cherub.

Public Sculpture Fund

Our public sculpture campaign aims to promote public sculpture in Hove and to fund public sculpture that has a strong relevance to people living and working in Hove. In 2018 we created a new cultural attraction on Hove seafront by creating Hove Plinth to showcase a changing programme of the best in modern day sculpture.

The first sculpture Constellation by Jonathan Wright was installed in 2018 and is now placed in the Hove Museum gardens, having made way for the second sculpture Flight of the Langoustine by Pierre Diamantopoulo MRSS, which was inaugurated on 17 September 2023 by the mayor of Brighton & Hove.

Hove Plinth and sculptures are funded by voluntary contributions. The Society  raised £300K to fund the Hove Plinth and its first two sculptures. We are continuing to raise funds to maintain and develop the project and for future sculpture commissions.

You can support the public sculpture campaign by signing up on our membership form to become a Hove Plinth Friend or a Sculpture in the City supporter.

For further information please contact karin@hovecivicsociety.org