Last week, on Twitter, I asked people what they thought made a house a home. There was method in my madness. Our Christmas appeal centred around the concept of making a home at Christmas, and our work is about offering people hope for the future, security in their lives, their homes, and occupations. In fact, [...]
It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas … Christmas Shopping
Christmas Shopping! It’s Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas … … Everywhere you go … Christmas can be magical, exciting, spectacular, cosy, warm, fun. It can be a time to “Deck the Halls”, to ‘shop till you drop’, to feast, to spend valuable and precious time with loved ones … For many of us, [...]
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 [...]
Business – Corporate Partnerships
Launching corporate partnerships within a small, local charity setting seems like a daunting task. A worthwhile one, nonetheless. At the Society of St James, we have identified the need for community relationships to be working in harmony with our services. We are a well established charity in terms of our health and social care provision [...]
Renovations finally completed at Avondale Residential Care Home in Southampton
Recently the Society of St James held an opening ceremony to celebrate the amazing transformation that has taken place at Avondale, our Residential Care Home in Southampton. All year, building work has been going on at Avondale, and now the renovations are finally complete. Avondale provides a home to a real mixture of people. Some [...]
Rocky Taylor Wants You to Remember a Charity in your Will
No one understands the importance of a will more than a stuntman. Rocky Taylor will put his life on the line not only for Remember A Charity but also in order to leave his own lasting legacy. Remember A Charity is sponsoring an aging stuntman named Rocky Taylor to perform a series of stunts to [...]
What a difference a tea makes.
A cup of tea might not look like much. But to someone fighting addiction, it can be life changing. That first step through the doors of a drug service can be a very hard one. When drugs have become the centre of your life, it’s almost impossible to imagine a life without them. That’s why, [...]
Avondale Appeal Update
In the summer of 2009 we launched our Avondale appeal. Our target is to raise £130,000, which will allow us to carry out our most ambitious renovations yet, including adding a new extension to the property.
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