Viva Brighton Issue #71 January 2019
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HAPPY NEW YEAR<br />
FROM THE TEAM AT<br />
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ON THE BUSES #45: CHARLIE JORDAN (ROUTE 7)<br />
Charlie Jordan is remembered as a person who dedicated his life<br />
to the improvement of other people’s.<br />
Born in Cape Town, he grew up in Durham and began studies<br />
in Law and Fine Art, and worked as a stage manager in London,<br />
before settling on his true calling of community development. He<br />
came to <strong>Brighton</strong> in the early 80s to run the newly formed charity<br />
PACT (People and Churches Together – now Impact Initiatives).<br />
A ‘whirl of social innovation’, he also supported and nurtured the<br />
Hangleton and Knoll community project; the city’s first hostel for<br />
homeless teenagers; a scheme to assist disabled people into work,<br />
and advice and housing support services for young people.<br />
In 1997 he negotiated the purchase of a convent to set up the <strong>Brighton</strong> & Hove Emmaus community<br />
in Portslade, then the largest of the organisation’s now 34 centres in the UK that provide a supportive<br />
community and employment for formerly homeless people. He went on to serve as chairman<br />
until 2008 and was made an international ambassador for the Emmaus movement.<br />
A tireless social entrepreneur, he realised that re-mortgaging some <strong>Brighton</strong> property could fund the<br />
establishment of a new community, and was working to set up Hastings & Rother Emmaus when he<br />
died suddenly, of a heart attack, in September 2009. He was 61.<br />
Emmaus Hastings & Rother opened in 2011 and today supports more than 20 formerly homeless people.<br />
Illustration by Joda @joda_art<br />
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