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Brighton Fringe
Booking now open for Fringe Festival Tours We are taking part in Brighton Fringe Festival 2026. We will be opening across two weekends in May – the 9th & 10th and 16th & 17th May. There will be lots to see and do during your visit to Take Shelter: Tour...
Project Volunteers Needed – Can you help?
Can you help us bring our Heritage Fund project to life? We are now recruiting for volunteers to help us record the memories of wartime veterans in both...
Recruiting now – Project Officer Job Description
Capturing Brighton’s last wartime veterans project Download Job Description pdf here Background: Take Shelter manages the only original school air raid shelter open to the public in the south and its associated schools and community programme of activities and...
National Lottery Heritage Fund Award Announcement
Brighton WW2 Air Raid Shelter Charity Awarded Heritage Fund Grant Friday 21st February 2025 Take Shelter has been awarded a grant by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to create and share a never before told story of wartime Brighton life through displays, resources...
Celebrate Mother’s Day with free tea and cake at Take Shelter
Did you know that the way we celebrate Mother’s Day was influenced by the Second World War? In the UK, Mothering Sunday, the day when people returned to worship at their ‘mother’ church, is traditionally the 4th Sunday of Lent. In contrast Mother’s Day, a day to...
Opening up the doors to Brighton’s wartime history
Have you visited Take Shelter? No longer Brighton’s best kept secret, this Second World War air raid shelter was once a hidden gem (quite literally as it is ‘hidden’ under the playground at Downs Junior School) but is now a firm favourite in Brighton’s top places to...
Marking the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2 Take Shelter recreate brothers’ evacuation
To mark 80 years since the outbreak of war, community group Take Shelter have worked with Brighton & Hove Buses and local train companies to recreate the journey of brothers, Barry & Gerald Gooders as they were evacuated from Thornton Heath to Brighton in...