Back to abnormal if you follow with a jump in numbers reminding us just how many need support. We did a big clothes day and can’t believe just how thankful someone can be for some clean underwear. Tracey’s Treats flew out and we cleared a mountain of food. Nothing left and that was a lot […]
Homeless Winter Support
Winter is almost here and temperatures are already 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 […]
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! […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]