SAFEHAVEN

Safehaven is a project which takes place at St Peter’s Church every Saturday evening between 6-7pm, providing a two-course hot meal for the street community. It is done in conjunction with two other local churches. We are situated in the middle of an area with considerable social needs, with the needle-exchange, housing services, drug-rehab centres and areas where many drugs are taken and dealt on our doorstep.

Our aim is to provide a safe place for members of this community, and to provide them with tasty and nourishing food. We always aim to give them the best. This means that we wait on them at their tables, giving our guests value by trying our best to treat them as though we were serving them at the best restaurant in Brighton.

We create a sense of belonging and community. We have hosts on each table, who concentrate on trying to build relationships and have a high ratio of volunteers to guests, with about 35-40 volunteers, and 40-60 guests each Saturday evening. Our hope is that Safehaven might be a first step for members of this community to move on to better things.