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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
40 Years Young (yes, it’s our 40th)
While the rest of you are gearing up for Christmas, here at The Society of St James we are focusing our attentions on a certain, special, upcoming birthday celebration. On March 25th 1972, £250 was granted to St James’ Church Hall for a short stay shelter for 12 homeless people. This makes March 25th 2012 [...]
Charity Raffle
The Society of St James have various methods of raising funds and have recently appointed a new Corporate and Community Fundraiser to embrace this aspect of increasing revenue. In terms of return on investment, the role of a fundraiser who primarily organises events will not be as financially beneficial as that of a fundraiser whose [...]
Why Don’t You …? Put on a Charity Gig?
Why Don’t You … Just switch off your television set and go and do something less boring instead? … Was the title of the Southampton, Sofa City Bands Collective’s charity gig for the Society of St James and Jail Guitar Doors on Friday evening. The Society of St James were thrilled, once again, to be one of [...]
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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