With our 40th birthday just around the corner, we’re kicking off our birthday year with our ONE BIG Sleepout event. Community groups throughout Hampshire, from girl guides to youth groups, students to churches, have run with this idea to hold ONE BIG Sleepout on the same night for the same charity to support the most [...]
Cold weather hits the homeless in Southampton
Update – 03/02/2012 Terry, a resident at Southampton Street, spoke to South Today’s Roger Finn this evening about just how hard it is sleeping rough in these conditions. Well, it’s pretty horrendous. It’s bad enough when you’re sleeping rough anyway; even in the warmer weather its’s horrible because you can never really sleep, because you’re [...]
Say No To Loan Sharks
The Society of St James has been working with the England Illegal Money Lending Team, in order to highlight the risk of illegal money lenders, more commonly known as loan sharks, to the charities client group and the wider Southampton and Hampshire community. The Society of St James is Southampton’s largest homelessness charity and provides [...]
Pro Bono Giving
Yesterday in the fundraising office we were preparing our budgets for the next financial year. Like everybody that has to do this knows, you start to plan the future by looking backwards. Whilst looking backwards over the last financial year, we realised how many wonderful business people had supported us with pro bono work. This [...]
Youth Unemployment Reaches all Time High
As Channel 4 news confirmed last week that youth unemployment currently stands at 1.04 million, or 22.3% of 16-24 year olds, we thought we’d share what that means for us in real terms, and what we are striving to do to make a difference. The largest group of our clients are males under 25. Work surrounding substance [...]
Skinny Steve WINNERS
Remember our Skinny Steve logo competition? Five finalists’ designs were shortlisted, and Jordon Hill’s winning design will be finding its way onto badges and beanies for our ONE BIG Sleepout event in March. We’re rather hoping that the represented colleges, South Downs College, BCOT are going to be part of our BIG Sleepout event. The bar [...]
Gearing Up
I love January. New year, new start. It’s no different for us here at SSJ either. The managers get together to discuss the plans and direction for the year, and each of our projects does the same. Here in Fundraising, our 2012 plans are centred around our BIG 4-O celebrations. We are looking at ways [...]
Reduce your inheritance tax with a charity will
How you can help both The Society of St James and your family with a charity will. Anything you give to the Society of St James, or to any other charity, is free of inheritance tax (IHT). Many people like to remember a favourite charity in their wills. If you die at any time after [...]
Computers for Charity
Jamie’s Computers the Society of St James’ computer recycling social enterprise would like to thank you for all of your support and business this year. 2011 has been a fantastic year for us here which has seen the number of donated computers for charity that we have refurbished and recycled hit an all time high. [...]
SSJ at the House of Lords
A few weeks ago I was contacted by Mark Abrahams, head of the Saints Foundation and asked if I, along with a couple of my colleagues and a couple of the Saints4Sport service users, would like to attend a Winter Reception event at the House of Lords. Mark informed me that the Saints Foundation had, along [...]
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