Help more people find recovery, connection and purpose.
Every day, people walk through our doors looking for hope. As a small charity, we rely on the generosity of volunteers, businesses, partners and supporters to make that possible. However you choose to get involved, you'll be helping more people rebuild their lives.
How would you like to help?
Volunteer✻ Recovery Volunteer
Turn your recovery into hope for someone else.
Our Hub volunteers are people with lived experience of abstinence based recovery who want to give back while continuing to build confidence, routine and new skills.
Why volunteer with usGive back to your community
Continue strengthening your own recovery
Build confidence and routine
Learn new skills
Gain valuable experience for your CV
Help newcomers feel welcome
✻ Business Volunteer
Share your skills
Whether you're a designer, photographer, marketer, accountant or administrator, your professional skills can make a lasting difference.
Benefits of getting involvedGive back to your community
Build confidence
Gain valuable experience for your CV
Current opportunitiesGraphic Designer
Copywriter
Social Media Marketing
Shahina volunteered her planning and marketing expertise to support us in developing our workplace training program, helping create recovery-friendly organisations.
— Business Volunteer
Sabrina volunteered her design skills to help us refresh our brand identity and creating flyers that now reach more people looking for recovery support.
— Business Volunteer
Partner with us
Together we can help more people rebuild their lives while creating meaningful opportunities for your business to give back to the local community.
Ways to partnerEvery contribution matters. Whether it's coffee beans for the café, cakes for our community, products for volunteers, or sponsorship for one of our events, your support helps create a welcoming place where people feel valued and connected.
Sponsor one of our programmes or events
Donate food, drinks or supplies for our Recovery Café
Donate products or services
Support Heartful Art
Share your professional expertise
Host fundraisers on our behalf
Make Kennedy Street your Charity of the Year
Become a Heartful Art PartnerSupport our annual charity art auction by sponsoring the event, donating artwork, or helping us celebrate creativity in recovery.
Why partner with Kennedy Street?Demonstrate social impact
Support your local community
Engage employees
Meet CSR and ESG goals
Be recognised as a Kennedy Street partner
GAIL's Bakery donates fresh bread and cakes each week, helping us create a warm, welcoming space where people can connect over a cuppa.
— Community partner
WiDEYE donated wellbeing products for our volunteers and hosted a skincare workshop, reminding our community that recovery also means learning to care for ourselves.
— Community partner
The team at Lloyds Bank shared their professional expertise to help us develop our workplace training programme, strengthening the support we can offer local businesses.
— Corporate volunteering
Fundraise for us
As a small charity, we rely on the generosity of our community to help more people find recovery, connection and purpose. Every fundraiser, big or small, helps us keep our doors open, run life-changing workshops, provide peer support, and create a welcoming space where people can rebuild their lives.
Organise a fundraiserLooking for a meaningful way to support your community? Whether you're taking on a marathon, hosting a comedy or music night, organising a charity yoga class, holding a bake sale, or creating something completely your own, every fundraising event helps make recovery more accessible.
Fundraising is a great way to bring friends, family, colleagues or your local community together while supporting a cause that changes lives.
Fundraising in actionBrighton Marathon: Sam, Greg and Tyler raised over £5,000 by running the Brighton Marathon.
Piece It Together Comedy Night: Paggy chose Kennedy Street as the charity partner for their monthly comedy night at Puzzle Bored Café.
Hotpod Yoga: Greg hosted a special charity class to bring the community together while raising funds for recovery.
Every fundraiser helps someone take their next step in recovery.
Give through work✻ Payroll Giving
Payroll Giving (also known as Give as You Earn) is an easy and tax-efficient way of making regular donations to Kennedy Street straight from your pay each time you get paid by your employer.
It means we get more money from anything you give, gives us longer-term stability and you only have to set it up through your employer once.
Your employer gets a tax benefit too.
✻ Employer Match Giving
Many employers will match charitable donations made by employees, doubling your impact at no extra cost to you.
✻ Corporate Volunteering
Give your team the opportunity to volunteer with Kennedy Street during paid volunteering days.
It's a meaningful way to strengthen team relationships while supporting people in recovery.
“The Hub gave me some hope that things could improve & I wasn't alone in dealing with all my problems. At that time I felt like alcohol was my only friend.”
— Danny, Hub volunteer
Make a donationEvery donation helps someone take their first step.
Your support helps us keep the kettle on, open our doors, run workshops, train volunteers and create a place where people in recovery can find hope, connection and purpose.
Whether you give once or monthly, every donation makes a real difference.
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