The club’s players and staff have selected a number of charities based in Sussex, including charities for hospices, sick children, domestic abuse victims, bereavement care, foodbanks, homeless support and health workers – who will all benefit from the fund – alongside a contribution of approximately 20% to Albion in the Community.
They are all charities hardest hit by the global coronavirus pandemic, and we have begun distributing funds to help communities in the city of Brighton & Hove and across our county.
NHS charities supported by the sale of the Albion special edition shirt:
- Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Charity
- East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Charitable Fund
- Queen Victoria Hospital
- Surrey and Sussex Hospitals Charity
- SE Coast Ambulance Service NHS Fund TST Charitable Fund
- Sussex Community Foundation Trust
- Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Western Sussex Hospitals Foundation Trust
Charities supported by the fund to date:
- Chomp Brighton - Supporting and feeding families on low incomes who cannot afford healthy and nutritious food across the city
- Brighton & Hove Food Partnership - Working with 21 foodbanks across the city to provide food to foodbank users
- Fareshare Sussex - Emergency food support throughout Sussex – delivering food donations from supermarkets to foodbanks across Sussex.
- Rise - Providing support to vulnerable people affected by domestic abuse
- Brighton Womens Centre - Providing support to vulnerable women, and emergency food aid to its clients
- JustLife - Providing homeless people with access to primary health care support. Phone and face to face contact. Emergency food support to 80 homeless/vulnerably housed people. Mental health and internet connectivity support
- Clock Tower Sanctuary - Support to 16-25-year-old people who are vulnerably housed
- Cruse Bereavement Care - Free counselling support for bereaved people in Brighton. Running telephone support
- Together Co - Befriending service to overcome loneliness. Providing contact, shopping, IT support
- Pride - Pride festival has been cancelled this year resulting in huge loss of income in supporting LGBT communities in Brighton & Hove
- Friends of Sussex Hospices - Raises funds for 13 local hospices throughout Sussex
- Rockinghorse - Fundraising arm of Brighton children’s hospital
- Brighton & Hove Samaritans - Volunteer listening service to support people with suicidal thoughts or who are struggling
- St John's Ambulance Sussex - St John volunteers are supporting ambulance services, hospitals and communities to help those in need during Covid-19
- Grief Encounter - Supporting bereaved children and their families to help alleviate the pain caused by the death of someone close
- Dom's Food Mission - providing emergency food for vulnerable families in Hastings
- Turning Tides - Support people who are homeless into recovery and independence across West Sussex including Worthing, Littlehampton and Horsham
- Strong Men - Emotional and mental health issues brought about by the suffering from bereavement.
- Forward Facing - Provides activities and events for families suffering long-term illness and bereavement in the Sussex area
- Martlets Hospice - All fundraising events have been cancelled seeing a drop-in short-term income. This donation helps to provide funds to support the hospice during the pandemic
- Chestnut Tree House - All fundraising events have been cancelled seeing a drop-in short-term income. This donation helps to provide funds to support the children’s hospice during the pandemic
- Allsorts Youth Project - Listens to, supports & connects children & young people under 26
- Black & Minority Ethnic Community Partnership - The BMECP Food Bank provides emergency food parcels for people in crisis who live in Brighton and Hove