LBP are pleased to announce the LBP Committee selected Turning Tides to be the 2025 LBP Charity of the Year.
Turning Tides is the largest provider of homelessness services to single adults across West Sussex.
They don’t believe in ‘sticking plaster solutions', but support people at every stage of their journey, empowering them on a pathway to greater strength and independent living, offering support to permanent solutions.
Based in central Worthing, the charity offers a wide range of services across the county: from community hubs which connect people sleeping rough with the support they need to begin their journey out of homelessness, through to residential projects ensuring people have the skills, resilience and confidence to sustain them in their future.
People become homeless for all sorts of reasons: bereavement, poor physical or mental health; redundancy; addiction issues; leaving the armed forces; relationship breakdown and many others. Turning Tides also understand the stigma of being homeless. It’s not something people will readily admit to.
For every person you see rough sleeping, they estimate that there are another 20 ‘hidden homeless’ - people living in their cars and vans, or sofa-surfing, or sleeping in tents in fields or woodland on the edge of the town.
Can you be sure that everyone in your business has a safe, secure home to return to at the end of their working day?
There are many ways for your staff and business to get involved with Turning Tides, and support local people experiencing homelessness:
- holding fundraising events
- donating goods and/or services
- participating in Turning Tides events
- visiting our services to learn more about our work
- getting involved in our events/campaigns
- setting up a payroll-giving scheme for your staff
- reducing your corporation tax with regular or one-off donations
- donating a % on every sale of your goods/services
- adding the option for micro-donations with every sale
Why not start by booking in a team building exercise?
Our Sussex 3 Peaks Challenge on 28th June 2025 is a 24k hike from Steyning up to Steepdown, along to Cissbury Ring and Chanctonbury before returning to Steyning. The walk, estimated to take between 7 and 8.5 hours, offers not just a physical challenge but also moments of reflection on rural homelessness and the difficulties people face while homeless
For further details of the walk please click here
For more details about Turning Tides who can visit their website by clicking here
You can also find out more about working with Turning Tides to help make a difference by clicking the image below:
