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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
6 Weeks to go …Skinny Steve competition
6 Weeks to go … Only six weeks now and here at SSJ we’re beginning to get more than a little excited about Skinny Steve competition entries rolling in overy the coming weeks. We’re eagerly awaiting designs from all walks of life from design undergraduates to tattoo artists. The judging should be extremely hard work, [...]
Skeleton fronting campaign to raise awareness about homelessness.
A CHARITY for homeless people is making no bones about its latest campaign. Fundraisers from the Southampton-based Society of St James (SSJ) travelled to the Island with their new mascot, Skinny Steve the skeleton, to raise awareness about homelessness. Holding a sign which read: “How long until you take notice?” Skinny Steve provoked a great [...]
Calling all graphic designers -Skinny Steve: Wants you to design a logo!
Calling all graphic designers. The Society of St James -Southampton’s largest homeless charity is running a fantastic competition for you to design us a Skinny Steve logo. We are looking for you to design a logo that can be printed on T-Shirts, Sweatshirts etc to promote Skinny Steve and help us to raise awareness of [...]
Skinny Steve: Wants you to take notice!
Skinny Steve: Wants you to take notice! This month Joe Miller, a Solent University final year student is undertaking some Guerrilla marketing to try and raise awareness for the homeless and The Society of St James – Southampton’s largest homeless charity. ‘Guerrilla advertising’ is a non-traditional, cheap method of generating awareness that works by grabbing, [...]
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