FROM OUR BLOG
Lagoonfest, see you there!
Hove Lagoon, 4th Sept 2021. Always a fun day out for all of the community. SHS will have a stall there so come and say hi!
Valentine’s fundraiser
It’s Valentine’s Day soon and the wonderful pupils at Christ’s Hospital School, Horsham, have been fundraising for us. Press ‘Read More’ below for a clickable link for details. Thank you x https://www.gofundme.com/f/barnes-b-valentines-raffle?utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_source=customer
Happy New Year from all the team!
Happy New Year, we wonder what 2021 will bring?! 2020 was certainly a busy, emotional one. We started last year as normal but from March onwards things changed, as they did for everyone. Over the year our amazing bank of volunteers have worked thousands of hours cooking and serving tonnes of hot food. From a […]
Our Christmas song! (cover)
May 2021 and still raising money! £1692 as last count. Amazing!
As of the end of January an amazing £1292 has been raised by this…. absolutely wonderful x
This Christmas a local group of very talented artists covered ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’ in aid of SHS. Please watch the video by clicking Facebook below! The last time we looked they’d raised over £1,200 for us which is incredible, the dedicated justgiving is also below. Happy Christmas everyone x
SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT is fundraising for Sussex Homeless Support CIO (justgiving.com)
Sleep Out Fundraiser 12th Dec 20
Thank you to all that took part! You were all amazing sleeping on balconies, in gardens, with you cats or children. We raised just over £4,000 which is incredible. Fingers crossed next year we can have our full outdoor event again…. SHS SLEEP OUT 20 for Sussex Homeless Support #shssleepout20 This year’s sleep out […]
New Wednesday Street Kitchen
As rough sleeper numbers are increasing, and the wet and windy weather is upon us, we’re starting an extra kitchen. 5pm-6pm at the Clock Tower in Brighton, our young, and infinitely energetic, volunteers will be serving up hot soup and snacks. Dubbed ‘Hot Dog Wednesday’ by the team we hope to include the tasty and […]
Donate via PayPal
We now have a PayPal you can donate to directly. Thank you to all our supporters, we couldn’t do our vital work without you! http://www.paypal.me/winterappeal
Our Covid-19 journey…
Since March we’ve been very busy… very busy! Around the 19th we geared up for a full UK lockdown and by the following monday SHS was one of the few homeless charities still operating in Brighton. We didn’t close, we didn’t stop and we stepped up. The first week we increased our hot meal output […]
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL
Your support during 2019 has been phenomenal. Individuals, companies large and small have all come up trumps. We have had people running auctions, abseiling, running marathons, raising sponsorship for the World’s Big Sleep Out, knitting for us, stores giving us their produce at the end of the day. The list is endless but without […]
Have you signed up to THE WORLD’S BIG SLEEP OUT yet?
Come and join us at The World’s Big Sleep Out. Raising money for SHS and charities worldwide. We are one of 50 venues worldwide who are hosting a sleep out on Saturday, December 7th. Our sleep out is at Hove Lagoon and we have a great night planned plus bedtime stories read to you by […]
SHS supporters can get discounted tickets to see ‘A Christmas Carol’
The Lantern Light Theatre Company will be performing A Christmas Carol on Thursday 5th December – 19.30 – in Brighton at St Nicholas Church, Brighton, BN1 3LJ They will be doing a collection for Sussex Homeless Support at the end of the show AND they have offered all of our supporters a 20% ticket discount. To […]
Father Christmas has already made sure our homeless client’s pets will be OK
There’s a lot of love out there! As a charity, we can struggle to get funding. Fighting for the rights of the homeless is tough task but every so often something magical happens that brightens our day. There are some amazing people out there who get together and share their skills to make the lives […]
Buy your raffle tickets now – all money raised goes to SHS – Thanks Oliver’s Brighton (again)
SHS have a true champion in Oliver Dall of Oliver’s Brighton. In celebration of being one of the 25 businesses shortlisted for Indie Retail’s Best Small Shops competition 2019, Oliver’s Brighton, in partnership with The Noble Collection has set up an amazing raffle to raise funds for the charity. You could win a chess set […]
Thank You Rebecca Cook of The Garden Chef
Sussex Homeless Support are really lucky to have support from so many different people, large companies, small companies, those local to Brighton and those further away. We are so grateful for their support and in return, we like to do a shout out for those who help us. Their funding is what keeps SHS ticking […]
A big THANK YOU to the students of Brighton College
On Wednesday 25th September, Brighton College held a ‘make a difference day’, where everyone in the school heads out into the community to do some good. Twelve of their students aged 13 – 17 and one teacher came to the SHS warehouse. They did an amazing job and we want to express our gratitude. As […]
The Levellers have done it again. This time they have raised £2,250 for SHS – Thank You
Another HUGE THANK YOU goes to The Levellers. At their Beautiful Days Festival in the summer, the guest list raised a staggering £2,250 for SHS… THANK YOU 🙂 This is the second year running that The Levellers have supported us from their Beautiful Days Festival and they have continued their support throughout the year, helping […]
A massive THANK YOU to ‘Fractured’ for raising £700 for SHS
Members of SHS, Rebecca and Andy Woolage went to the Green Door Store on Saturday night to see Fractured, along with Kev Minney and Asbo Derek. Fractured generously donated all of the money raised from the door sales and merchandise from this concert, to our charity. The unbelievable amount was…. £700… This is amazing, thank […]
Sussex Homeless Support release a documentary
Jim Deans and the team of volunteers and service users from Sussex Homeless Support were followed by a documentary film making team. The footage has been put together as a documentary which tells the story of SHS today – our work, how we support our service users and it shows where your donations go. It […]
CAE choose SHS as their ‘Charity of the Year’ and have already raised £943.31 – Thank You
Each year, CAE in Burgess Hill, choose a charity to support. Employee Ian Cheese, who lives in Brighton, nominated SHS. Ian cycles past the buses each day on his way to work. He was moved by what he saw and nominated our charity – CAE staff voted overwhelmingly to support his proposal. CAE will support […]