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 [...]
Corporate Volunteering – Virgin Media
Virgin Media – Corporate Volunteering Businesses large and small choose to fulfil their corporate social responsibilities in a variety of ways. One of the first ways we will often engage with a large company is when a local branch is seeking to do some hands-on volunteering and team building. We believe that these corporate relationships [...]
Charity Talk
Last night (18/07/12) David Powell (manager of Jamie’s Computers) and I went to do a charity talk for the Valley Park Ladies based in Chandler’s Ford. Some 9 months prior to this event one of the Valley Park Ladies had come into Jamie’s to recycle her old computer. Mrs Goold had found us on the [...]
Saints4Sport
Saints4Sport is a sports, fitness and education service for vulnerable people in Southampton, which is run by the Society of St James (SSJ) in partnership with Southampton FC’s charity arm, The Saints Foundation. Saints4Sport started in 2010 with a few staff members and service users all wanting to get involved with sports to try and [...]
A Guest Post from Starbucks’ Dave; ONE BIG Sleepout
Below is a fantastic guest post from Starbucks Dave about his ONE BIG Sleepout experience. Thanks Dave, for supporting us and for writing such an honest account. Hello there, I’m Dave! You may remember me from… well actually, you probably don’t know me at all, so I’d best introduce myself! I’m one of the [...]
Gearing Up – ONE BIG Sleepout
ONE BIG Sleepout Our ONE BIG Sleepout event will kick off our 40th birthday year! 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 vulnerable people in our area. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Introducing StreetSmart Hampshire
The StreetSmart Campaign is not a new initiative. It has been running successfully in London for the last 14 years and has raised £4,700,000 for linked homeless charities in that time. The secret of its success lies in its simplicity. Restaurateurs add a voluntary £1 to each table’s bill throughout November and December. The money [...]
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