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Homeless Winter Support

Homeless Winter Support
Winter is here and temperatures are dropping, rain and storms battering our homes.
We will face a bad winter and many will be afraid to turn heating on for fear of bills. What a mess homeless and rough sleepers will die this winter and with numbers rising our mission is becoming a mountain to big to climb.
Our volunteers are fighting back, we often work 18 hours a day and can be found out in every weather sometimes 7 days a week. The crew are amazing every one of them deserves an OBE for the work they do. But they don’t want medals they just ask for your support.
Together we can save lives

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Street Kitchens every Saturday 1pm at the Old Steine and Thursdays 6.30pm at the Peace Statue. Thanks to our volunteers….

Sun shone down on our Saturday afternoon support we managed to use the new burger trailer for transporting a mountain of supplies to the Steine which was just as well as we were really busy again. Volunteers were simply amazing you really are the stars the homeless and those in need are dancing in the street with you how cool is seeing that such a happy sight in such a sad way. Behind the scenes as always work till they drop to bring everything together Josie and Helen clearing up the mess Chef Jazz. They never once doubt my course and the support is always there. Lucy is making such a big difference at the base and the silicon man has been joined by Paul and Simon this week together we have moved the whole floor of the unit and built enough shelving to keep it all safe. I really hope everyone gets a break now as I know I am exhausted. I can get on with the new food trailer tomorrow it will make a massive difference to how we serve food and there will be room for Tracey’s Treats along with the main meals. Thanks everyone hope you can all get along to the King Alfred for our fund raiser in 2 weeks.

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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  

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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 […]

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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

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SUSSEX HOMELESS SUPPORT is fundraising for Sussex Homeless Support CIO (justgiving.com)

 

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]