(Updated 12 October 2025)
CASE Central is a social space open to visitors. Visitors can come for a cup and a chat, browse through our free clothes, books, etc., receive food and basic necessities and be seen on appointment by our Welfare Rights Caseworkers.
Please scroll down for all our activities and free services.
Our opening times are:
- Tuesdays (10.00-2.30)
- Wednesdays (10.00-2.30)
- Thursdays (10.00-2.30)
- Fridays (10.00-2.30).
Ten years for you!
On 11 October 2025 we celebrated our 10th anniversary since we started in 2015.
Ten years of good, solid, professional work, helping, supporting, empowering you.
Ten years of friendship and solidarity.
Our volunteers and our local happy clients and visitors came for a party, with our local MP Siân Berry and the Branch Secretary of PCS East Sussex, Lynne Gash-Quantrell. We are very grateful for their support. We are also grateful for the lovely clients who brought food and drinks to the party, and who helped us having a nice afternoon and evening.
About CASE
CASE (‘Community, Advice, Support and Education’) was officially born on 29 April 2015, counting on the professionalism, enthusiasm and creativity of our teams of Welfare Rights Advisers, Event Organisers and Front of House volunteers, and their 10+ years experience.
We have been supported by the local community in Hollingdean and Brighton and Hove, our loca MP and local Councillors, important Charitable Trusts and representatives of various organisations who fight against poverty or for social justice.
Location
We are based at CASE Central, 4 Crestway Parade, Brighton BN1 7BL. After opening, we improved our premises and made a fantastic sign, which is still there! This is work in progress, with new shutters and an efficient ventilation system.
Our activities and services
CASE Central is a space for socialising, offering free tea/coffee, free bread/snacks, free clothes, free telephone for welfare purposes, and free computer access for benefits purposes. To contact us and for further information on our location please click here.
CASE Central has also offered free Welfare Rights advice to benefits and Tax Credit claimants from Brighton and Hove – and sometimes to people from other towns, including Newhaven, Peacehaven, Lewes, Worthing… On rare occasions we had phone calls from further away, for example Yorkshire or North London! Our service is highly needed, in times of draconian cuts to welfare benefits and services, and of rising housing and fuel costs.
Healing with music, our group against depression and isolation, is continuing. We meet to play guitar together. Please contact us for details.
Besides our drop-in and welfare advice services, we have also continued a 15-year tradition of organising free recreational and educational events for children of families on low incomes and refugees, helping many hundreds of parents and children who risk social and financial exclusion. For information about our future events and photos of previous ones, please visit our menu or click here.
Our recent fights. About our work during the pandemic (2020-2021), and about the more recent Cost of Living Crisis, click here.
What people say of us
If you want to read what people say of us click here. We have collected comments from individuals and families who have visited us, received Welfare Rights Advice or attended our events for children, as well as from people we have worked with.
Please explore our menu to discover: what we do for the community, our Welfare Rights advice and support work, and our educational (and recreational) events!