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FROM OUR BLOG
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 […]
Small Batch Coffee Roasters raise a whopping £1,707 for SHS
SHS would like to say a massive thank you to Small Batch Coffee Roasters, their wonderful team and customers, for raising £1,707 for Sussex Homeless Support through the sale of coffee bean bags and customer donations. Alan Tomlins, MD and co-founder of Small Batch Coffee Roasters supports local charities, giving each one that is nominated […]
ROBB JOHNSON – BRIGHTON SONGWRITER – RAISES FUNDS FOR SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT
BRIGHTON SONGWRITER SUPPORTS SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT Robb Johnson is a Brighton based singer and writer of many campaigning songs, which deal with issues he witnesses and causes he supports, in the local community and elsewhere. A few years ago, Robb wrote a song for a local school, to support their campaign to […]
We’d love you to help us – here’s how …..
We are always looking for people to help us at Sussex Homeless Support. There are lots of ways to help: Volunteer at the Street Kitchen on a Sunday – we set up at the Clock Tower at 12:45. If you can spare a few hours once a month or more please see our events page […]
Volunteer Ruth Brumpton’s brilliant initiative
Ruth Brumpton volunteers for Sussex Homeless Support, helping out in the office and at the Street Kitchen. Ruth has first hand experience of the difficulties that SHS have in trying to provide the contents for the 22 food parcels that are sent out every Friday to families on the poverty line, vulnerable people in emergency […]
Thank you Graeme Stokes for raising £1,318 for SHS
The background Graeme Stokes is a children’s nurse in A & E at the Royal Alex in Brighton. His job is often stressful and as a way to relax, Graeme took up the hobby of metal detecting – it combines his love of history with a stress relieving walk in the countryside. A while back, […]
Exhibition artwork on sale to raise funds for Sussex Homeless Support
‘My Brighton Hotel’ and Oliver Dall of ‘Oliver’s Brighton’ join forces to help Sussex Homeless Support. Oliver Dall is a man of many talents. Not only does he run the award winning Wizarding Shop – Oliver’s Brighton, at 42 Trafalgar Street, Brighton BN1 4ED, but he has a passion for helping vulnerable people on […]
THANK YOU to the staff and customers of Tesco Shoreham (Holmbush)
Tesco Shoreham (Holmbush) have been supporting Sussex Homeless Support for the last year. Food is donated instore by their customers and we collect, whenever we get the call. But Tesco Shoreham go way over for SHS. Last year the staff made up Christmas packs full of goodies for our clients. Their knitting group made hats, […]