News & Events
First Base receives £18,000 worth of optical equipment
Keeler and Birmingham Optical have donated an £18,000 top of the range slit lamp to the Brighton Vision Care for Homeless People clinic stationed in BHT Sussex’s First Base Day Centre. The new equipment will greatly...
Portslade woman walking over 100km to raise money for BHT Sussex Addiction Services
Vickie Norris from Portslade is taking part in multiple Ultra Challenges this year to raise money for BHT Sussex’s Addiction Services. She has already walked 25km at Easter and will walk 44km this Saturday 28 May...
More funds for Domestic Abuse Perpetrators Programme
BHT Sussex has received Home Office Funding to expand the High Harm Domestic Abuse Perpetrators Programme. The Government has announced that Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) Katy Bourne has been awarded £1.34m funding from the...
UK Emergency Alert test on Sunday 23 April
This Sunday 23 April 2023, at 3pm, the government will be testing a new emergency alert system. Everyone will receive a message on the home screen of their mobile phone, along with a sound and vibration...
BHT Sussex intending to extend lease of Richardson’s Yard properties
BHT Sussex and QED Sustainable Urban Developments have submitted an application to Brighton and Hove City Council to extend the lease of our Richardson’s Yard properties. The lease was originally due to end in May 2023....
BHT Sussex to deliver £120,000 of energy efficiency measures for social housing
BHT Sussex are excited to have been awarded £60,000 towards improving energy efficiency in homes from the government’s Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF). We are matching this funding, meaning £120,000 worth of property upgrades will take...
BHT Sussex launch fundraising initiative with local hotels
BHT Sussex, and Q Square Aparthotel Brighton, have announced a new fundraising initiative to support people who are marginalised and homeless in Brighton and Hove. The initiative is centred around the simple theme of providing beds....
New BHT Sussex campaign: Make Work Pay For Everyone
BHT Sussex has launched a new campaign which seeks to change the system that discriminates against homeless hostel residents who start work. BHT Sussex is to press the Government to end an unfairness in the benefits...
BHT Sussex partners with alterations business for clothes drive
Brighton-based clothing alterations business, The Zip Yard, has launched a winter clothes drive in partnership with BHT Sussex. BHT Sussex runs First Base Day Centre for people sleeping rough in Brighton and Hove. The centre provides...
