Volunteers very welcome to help with the work needed to support single parent families and this can be done at home or in our office. Please enquire enclosing your CV to Joanna Gurr to Joannagurr@SPINBrighton.uk and I will respond to discuss current opportunities. These are also posted on COMMUNITYWORKS and FREEGLE
Volunteering can be done from home and or in our office which (booked workstation spaces x1pw in central Brighton. Free tea/coffee/biscuits/fruit and travel expenses paid plus lunch if you are in the office for a full day. We sometimes do half days too (0930-1230) or (1230-1700 hrs) but we are flexible about start/leaving times to suit the voilunteer. Our office space is courtesy of the Benefact Group an amazing company providing opportunities such as free hub, training, funding for charities and ANSVAR is the company who hosts the hub in Brighton.
ANSVAR, The Office, 1 Market Square, Circus street Brighton BN2 9AS but entrance is Kingswood Street. (yellow doorframe - see pic)
Kingswood street leads off the one way system off grand parade up towards police station. (Morley street runs parallel and you can walk through to reach Kingswood street either through the blocks of flats or along Circus street)
Turn left where ttere is a pub on the corner called Brewdog (all yellow you cant miss it!!)
52-54 Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 9QA into Kingswood street and office entrance a little further up on left.
Recent SPIN stand at Carers event in Open Market Brighton on 11/06/25 with volunteers and members
How did Circus Street get its name?
Circus Street is named after the The Royal Circus, Amphitheatre & Riding School, which stood at 36 Grand Parade, opened in August 1808, and also featured a billiards lounge, coffee-house and confectionary. The circular arena - the 'Royal Circus' - where pupils were taught equestrian skills, was also open for 'public amusement', in the style of Phillip Astley's Riding School and the later Hughes's 'Royal Circus' building in London - bringing together military horsemanship and equestrian trick-riding with acrobatic acts and pantomime – an early form of ‘circus’ which later became the ‘big top’ travelling circus we know today.
