Garden Gadabout 2008
Over 40 private gardens threw open their gates to raise funds for the Sussex Beacon.

We can now confirm the final total raised from this year's Garden Gadabout held during July.

From 43 gardens the total raised through £1 entry fee, sale of home-made cakes, lunches, deserts, plants, vegetables, art (not forgetting the hours of hard work by the garden owners and their friends) was £16,529.56.

The total per trail is as follows:

Kemptown £5,366.79
Montpelier £2,978.84
Round Hill £1,25571
Peacehaven £499.00
Rottingdean £642.05
Seaford £963.00
Hove £657.00
Fiveways £2,358.44
Queens Park & Hanover £1,422.63
Bevendean & Patcham £336.10

Thank you to you all who wandered the Gadabout this year, and especially the garden owners for their fabulous support.

The Marine Tavern

£1,500 was donated in June made up from the various fundraising efforts at The Marine Tavern over recent months. These include:
Laurence's sponsored weight loss which raised £734.50,
The Marine’s regulars of Bonus Ball competition raised £341,
Nat’s Quiz Night raised £216.50,
Calendar sales raised £94,
A collection for Nikki Andrews raised £114

» www.marinetavern.co.uk

Family Investments

£1,000 was donated from Family Investments to help refurbish clients bedrooms, we are grateful to Sean White for nominating the Sussex Beacon for this award from their community fund.

» www.familyinvestments.co.uk

Brighton Banter

£425 was received from Darren Cook of brightonbanter.com from a charity speed-dating event at the end of May. Thanks Darren for choosing the Sussex Beacon.

» www.brightonbanter.com

Brighton Parties

£150 was donated in May, plus a further £100 in July by Brighton Parties, from various fundraising activity at their events – our sincere thanks to Norman and everyone at Brighton Parties for choosing the Sussex Beacon.

  Brighton University Rag

  In April the Sussex Beacon was one of the chosen charities to

  benefit from this years RAG.  £5,512  was raised and the

  Beacon received £612.

No Back Door
No Back Door is part of the Artists Open Houses for Brighton Festival.No Back Door support the charitable work of The Sussex Beacon, and proceeds from the sale of artworks during the festival are donated to the Beacon.

» www.nobackdoor.co.uk

The Volunteer
Eastgate Street, Lewes BN7 2LP
Sunday Cabaret Lunches

The Volunteer has undergone a major refurbishment and early in February started their special Sunday Cabaret Lunch with raffles in aid of The Sussex Beacon which raised £200 - thank you to Rus  and all at The Volunteer.

The Sussex Beacon Half Marathon 2008
17th February 2008

Clear blue skies, wall to wall sunshine helped to ensure that the 3,715 (of the 4,891 who had registered) runners that turned up on Sunday 17th February had a great day!

Our sincere thanks to all the Volunteers, Brighton & Hove City Council, St John Ambulance, Select Security, Sussex Police, running clubs Phoenix and Arena 80 who were key partners in putting on such a fabulous fundraiser for the Sussex Beacon.

» HALF MARATHON 08 RESULTS (provisional)

Our target for this event was £120,000; to date we have raised over £118,000.

The Sussex Beacon Youth Race
17th February 2008

Our first attempt at organising a Youth Race saw 11 runners compete on Madeira Drive for a prize; Under 13yrs, Under 15yrs and Under 17yrs.

We hope that we will be able to develop this event to become an important stepping stone for local and regional youngsters in their preparation for 2012 and beyond!

Our thanks to The Argus for sponsoring this event, and Mark Hedger and team for their work this year.  The 2.5K 2008 RESULTS will be available soon.

15th Anniversary - Positively Changing

Brighton Unitarian New Road, Brighton

1st December 2007

To commemorate and celebrate The Sussex Beacon's 15th Anniversary at the heart of Brighton, The Sussex Beacon held the event to coincide with World AIDS Day.

During the day, there was an interactive public exhibition which took visitors on a journey of discovery in four distinct areas. The first was a retrospective on why the Beacon started 15 years ago, the second a changing nature and epidmiology of HIV/AIDS looking at prevention, treatment and living with HIV, the third area looks at the changing demographics of HIV/AIDS in the community and looking at how the condition mpacts different segments of the community and the final area will focus on how The Sussex Beacon fits in and why it is still necessary. The journey concluded at a commemorative wall where people can leave thoughts, reactions and impressions.

The display is available for use through-out 2008 - please contact us with requests.

There was also video footage of a group of teenagers from a local community college giving their views about HIV and AIDS.

Our thanks to organisers Donald Reid, Rob Shone, David Tennant and sponsors, realbrighton.com, Partyonbrighton, AMEX, TJ'S Signs, Studio 3. Thanks to Boundstone Community College, Jenny, Tim and the 15 yr olds who were willing to go on film!