The Great South Run is, of course, the world’s premier 10 mile road race and is also a brilliant opportunity to raise funds for SSJ. Hopefully, you will be inspired to join Team SSJ at the Great South Run 2013… and if not, maybe sponsor one of our team for putting themselves through such a [...]
ONE BIG Sleepout – Southampton University Air Squadron
ONE BIG Sleepout – SUAS When Naomi from the Southampton University Air Squadron (SUAS) first approached us about wanting to run a sleepout with the Squadron, she was concerned about the date. “Don’t you worry about that,” we said. “Hold your event when suits you best, it’ll stall be part of our ONE BIG Sleepout. [...]
The Great South Run: Lizi’s story
Around about this time last year, a curious thing began to happen here at SSJ: the running bug began to spread. There have always been a few intrepid runners amongst our staff team, but early in 2012 it seemed like every week yet another person was lacing up their trainers and hitting the streets of [...]
Indian Himalayas Here we Come
In a week we will be waving our brave trekkers off the the Indian Himalayas to trek for us, to work at a homelessness project run by and NGO in Delhi, and to raise valuable funds for our work here in the UK. Each of our trekkers has had to raise at least £1500 for us, [...]
Ex-Saints Q&A Evening
At the end of last month we were privileged to be invited to attend an ex-Saints Q&A and quiz evening as guests, because the Ex-Saints wanted to make a cheque presentation to us. We decided that, as well as representing the fundraising department at the event, it would be useful to have some front-line staff [...]
StreetSmart Hampshire – Celebrating Success
StreetSmart Hampshire Restaurants raise £17,000 for Hampshire homelessness charity through StreetSmart 13 Hampshire pubs, restaurants and hotels have raised £11,228 for local homelessness charity, the Society of St James, by participating in a two month StreetSmart campaign. This was topped up to £17,000 by government match funding. StreetSmart is a national campaign which raises [...]
A Christmas Miracle
A Christmas Miracle When an email drops into your work inbox and the subject line reads: A Christmas Miracle, you know it’s going to be a good day. Remember us telling you about the delightful children in Year 4 (8-9 year olds) at Locks Heath Junior School here? There is no way that the staff [...]
The Little Saint Nick
The Little Saint Nick It’s the day before Christmas and we simply have to share this story, so reminiscent of the original tale of the little Saint Nick (as the song goes), or of St Nicholas, if you prefer. So many people say that Christmas is about the children, which, whilst I understand and accept the sentiment, [...]
Waitrose Portswood – Community Matters
Back at the beginning of this month, the Society of St James were invited to go and collect food donations at Waitrose Portswood. This followed a month of being one of their three Community Matters charities and we were so grateful for the second opportunity to make ourselves known to, and meet with, the general public [...]
Our AGM and 40th Anniversary Celebrations
Last week we marked our 40th Anniversary at our AGM. AGMs have a bit of a reputation for being dry and formal affairs, so we always try and make ours a mixture of information, reflection and celebration – and with this year being our 40th, we had lots to celebrate! We began with the business [...]
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