Housing & Homelessness Health & Wellbeing 2025
BHT Sussex

BHT Sussex Year in Review 2025

BHT Sussex empowers people to overcome homelessness, poverty, addiction and mental ill health across Brighton, East Sussex and West Sussex. In 2024-25, the charity supported 10,683 clients and tenants, prevented 2,303 cases of homelessness and raised over £4 million in welfare benefits for clients. Its 40-year-old First Base day centre, its Outstanding-rated Detox Support Project, and its newly won NHS Sussex mental health contract reflect a comprehensive and growing offer across the South East.

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📋About

First Base Day Centre (Brighton); Phase One 52-bed hostel; East Sussex Floating Support Service; Mid Sussex Supported Housing; addiction services including Detox Support Project (rated Outstanding by CQC) and Recovery Project; Pathfinder mental health support (West Sussex); Be OK young people's mental health service; Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings Advice Centres; Accommodation for Work; Homes for Ukraine Sustainment Service; Choir with No Name; PRS Leasing; community housing (319 homes across Brighton and Hastings)

📊Key Metrics

10,683 clients and tenants supported across all services in 2024-25 Key Metric 1
2,303 cases of homelessness prevented; £4,063,042 raised by welfare benefits advisers for 519 clients Key Metric 2
6,603 visits to First Base day centre; 463 individuals and households accommodated in community housing; 198 people in specialist mental health supported housing Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • 512 people supported through First Base day centre; 2,273 people helped through advice centres in Brighton, Eastbourne and Hastings; 67 people supported to achieve abstinence and recovery from addiction
  • 1,838 people supported by community mental health services in West Sussex; 21 people with first-hand experience of homelessness, addiction or mental ill health joined as staff or volunteers
  • Route One supported housing scheme saved from closure through partnership with Brighton and Hove City Council; secured lead provider contract with NHS Sussex for West Sussex Mental Health Support Services for next five years; 1,489 hours of free meeting space provided to partner agencies

📍Geography

South East

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