About us

We are: some individuals and businesses in Lewes, and the Town Council, who want Lewes to be a Living Wage Town.

We started in September 2014 writing to newspapers about wages in Lewes, after one of us discovered a care home in which only the minimum wage was being paid to some carers for 12 hour shifts. We also found that York and Brighton and Hove are Living Wage Cities.

We are:
Sonya Baksi

Pat Charlton
Claire Duc

Ferrie van Echtelt

Linda Lamont

Ann Link

Imogen Makepeace

Dee O’Connell
Jane Perry

We have had major support from Andrew Bird of Silverado Contemporary Jewellery, the Labour Party, the Green Party and Lewes Town Council, who have supported us with a grant. More recently, we have started to work more closely with Lewes Chamber of Commerce.

We have affiliated to the Living Wage Foundation and we work closely with Living Wage Brighton and Hove

Website by Emily Smart of Silverado

Logo adapted with permission from Living Wage Brighton and Hove (designer Wolfstrome: http://richardwolfstrome.com/)

Image of Lewes Castle from a watercolour by Robin Charlton