With 2019 coming to an end, there’s plenty to be proud of after a year of campaigning for a better, fairer, Living Wage. Looking back, we’ve achieved so much and want to thank everyone for their support and contributions to our campaign. This year we celebrated reaching our 500th sign up, a landmark event for our campaign – we brought… ...Read More
The countdown to Christmas is officially on! It could well be time to start shopping. There’s so many fantastic shops in and around Brighton & Hove, but how many of them are paying their employees a real Living Wage? To help you with your buying choices, we wanted to bring you a special Living Wage advent calendar featuring some of… ...Read More
By Alison Scutt, owner and director of Home Instead Senior Care – Lewes District and Uckfield. Home Instead Senior Care Lewes District and Uckfield are delighted to be a Living Wage employer. We are also equally delighted to hear that The Living Wage Foundation has announced the new UK Living Wage hourly rate of £9.30 per hour, an increase of… ...Read More
This week is Living Wage Week which is when the new Living Wage is announced for the UK and London each year. The hourly rate, calculated independently by the Resolution Foundation, was announced on Monday 11 November. What is the real Living Wage in the UK? £9.30 for Brighton & the UK £10.75 for London The Brighton & Hove Living… ...Read More
By Kirin Bhadesha, Catalyst Team Member Since 2018, two Catalyst team members get the opportunity to work for a week on the Brighton & Hove Living Wage Campaign supported by Brighton Chamber. This year, Arthur and I got the chance to support an audit of Brighton Living Wage employers as part of the campaign. The Catalyst Team is a group… ...Read More
18 Sep 2019 This week the Brighton & Hove Living Wage campaign reached the milestone of 550 Living Wage employers in the city. The 550th employer to sign up was Brighton & Hove Albion FC. Rose Read, Head of People and Culture, said: “Brighton & Hove Albion FC and our charitable arm, Albion in the Community, have paid the Living Wage to our… ...Read More
1. Who are Health Assured and what services do you provide? Health Assured are occupational health experts. Their services focus on issues surrounding mental health in the workplace. Services they offer include: Employee assistance programmes, trauma management, health assessments, stress counselling and more. 2. Why do you support the living wage campaign? This campaign and others like it helps to… ...Read More
Thinking of going green but not sure where to start? Svenja from Living Wage employer Sustainable Business Partnership CIC has created this blog post all about their funded Utilise Plus programme, designed to help businesses save energy. Everyone wants to do their bit to stop climate change but it can be difficult to know where to start. That’s why, when the Sustainable… ...Read More
The 500th employer to sign up to the Brighton & Hove Living Wage campaign is Emma Cleary, owner and founder of Flexibility Matters. Hi Emma, congratulations on becoming our 500th Living Wage employer! Tell us more about your business. Flexibility Matters is the champion of all things about flexible working. From recruitment, to best practice in creating flexible working strategies,… ...Read More
Spring is 100% on its way and as the city’s residents start to come out of hibernation and day trippers begin planning their visits down to the coast, it’s always a good idea to do some research and find out what’s going on in Brighton & Hove. But where to start and how to choose? Fortunately, the Brighton & Hove… ...Read More
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“I’m really proud that the Brighton Chamber has been running the only business-led Living Wage campaign for the last four years. We have received so much support from local businesses and are looking forward to even more businesses joining the campaign going forward.” Carol Lewis, Chamber President
"We have always believed it is essential to pay staff a living wage and we are therefore delighted to be signed up to the Living Wage Campaign. It is important to retain staff that we have invested time and effort into and as a company committed to enabling our staff to develop to their full…
Signing up to the Living Wage campaign represents the high value that Sussex Nightstop places on equality, fairness and inclusion and lends our voice and encouragement to others to do likewise.
"Brighton is a fantastic place to live. But we understand that it costs to live here. We want to keep our local economy (and businesses) buoyant by making it viable for people to work here rather than commute to London."
