support is vital

We regularly hold fundraising events and are always grateful for volunteer help to run and promote our events.

Gingerbread House Decorating Competition Thursday 12 December 2019

Get your company, school or community group to take part in our gingerbread decorating competition – as a team or individually.

It’s great Festive fun – we provide the Gingerbread House pieces and you put it together and decorate it with anything edible.

There’s a trophy for the winner and great publicity to be had too!

The Houses are given to the families in the Refuges after the judging.

To take part and register for our annual events, please email info@safeinsussex.org.uk or call our Fundraising Team on 0330 333 7416.

Annual Shocking Shirts and Funky Frocks Day Friday 26 June 2020

Dress to impress and entertain your colleagues and make a donation to Safe in Sussex.

Our annual event is held on the last Friday of June and businesses, schools and community groups take part by wearing some pretty outlandish and funky clothes to work or meetings and make a donation to Safe in Sussex.

If you would like to help Safe in Sussex raise money by holding a fundraising event, please do get in touch by info@safeisussex.org.uk or calling us on 0330 333 7416.

We can supply you with banners, leaflets, sponsorship forms and help you promote your event. 

For details of forthcoming fundraising events, please visit the News page.

Our Broadwater charity shop, located at 5 Broadwater Street West, is a great way for us to raise funds.

We welcome donations of excellent quality (clean, not stained, marked, faded, damaged or broken) household goods, bric-a-brac and clothes.

We would also love volunteers to help out at the shop. Sorting clothes and collecting donations. Please see our Vacancies page for more details.

Our shop is open 9.30am to 4.15pm Monday to Friday and between 9.30am and 3.00pm on Saturdays and you can call them on 01903 234325.

You can help us by posting us your unwanted jewellery and foreign banknotes – it won’t cost you a penny and you can do it from the comfort of your armchair.

You can donate all your broken and unwanted jewellery to raise money for Safe in Sussex.

If you have any gold, silver, odd earrings, broken chains, costume jewellery and watches, you can recycle them at no cost to you whilst raising money for Safe in Sussex. 

• Any jewellery – gold, silver, costume jewellery, watches, broken and damaged items (like odd earrings, snapped chains or items with missing stones).
• Unwanted banknotes – old and new, UK and foreign banknotes, including all the pre-Euro notes that are now worthless to you.
• Please do not send coins as the postage costs will far outweigh your donation. 

Simply wrap, pack, print label and send! 

Use your own envelope or jiffy bag, no bigger than A5 in size, and post free of charge by printing out the freepost label Click to download and attaching to your envelope. 

You can help us and the environment by recycling your unwanted goods through Safe in Sussex collection bins.

We have three collection bins

• Safe in Sussex Charity Shop, Broadwater
• Co-Op, South Street, Worthing
• Goring Methodist Church, Bury Drive, Goring

We collect jewellery, watches, currency (any sort, old or current), small gadgets including mobile phones, cameras, video cameras, electronic gaming devices, I Pods / MP3 players, laptops, sat navs, tablet devices and Stamps (any sort, old or current).

All items can be working, damaged or broken.

Raise funds for Safe in Sussex when you shop online at over 4,300 stores, including huge names Amazon, Argos, Matalan, Millets and thousands more.

Sign up for free at Give as you Live – Safe in Sussex and shop as normal and your purchases will automatically generate funds for us.

Legacies and bequests make an invaluable contribution to our work and allow us to help more and more people each year affected by domestic abuse.

A donation in your Will could help save someone else’s life and allow them and their children to look forward to a brighter, safer life.