Want to say goodbye to the Snails?

Meet the stars of the Snailway for a Festive Farewell at St Augustine’s in Stamford Avenue, Brighton from Friday 30 November to Sunday 2 December. It is hoped that this final farewell to the city’s much-loved Snails will raise up to £20,000 for us. This is your last...

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Brighton College pupils got our Snails 'Snailfie' ready on Make a Difference Day 2018. Last month we hosted our Snail Selfie Challenge event which saw teams of Snailspace sponsors and Brighton businesses race through the city. They competed to take the most...

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We’ve been challenging people to sign up for our Snailway Weekend Challenge and visit all 50 giant Snails in one weekend, but some daring Snail Seekers have been challenging themselves to see all 50 in just one day! One of the first to do this was local journalist...

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Our Snails looking great out in the city, but they’re also gracing the covers of local mags! Artist and illustrator Illona Clark created Home Sweet Home who was featured on the cover of Poets Pages. Home Sweet Home is inspired by the concept of home truly being where...

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Healthwalks, that are part of the Active for Life Programme, are conducting two Snailspace Walks in November. This will help to encourage people in our community to get active and visit some of the Snails on the Snailway. Brighton and Hove Council started Active for...

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National GetOutside Day is an initiative started by Ordnance Survey that aims to get people active in the beautiful outdoors across the UK. This year National GetOutside Day fell on 30th September and we’re proud to say that our Snailway is encouraging all sorts of...

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After a month of cheering up busy London commuters at Victoria Station, ‘A Spin Around Brighton’ has finally returned home! This eclectic Snail was designed and painted by Lauren Nickless. It features the unusual characters, architecture, wildlife and festivities of...

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Everyone knows that Snails can’t dance… or can they? Did you know that  ‘Snails Can’t Dance’ is a tribute to a much-loved and massively popular children’s book? The book was written by  Giles Andreae and illustrated by our very own Snailspace artist Guy Parker-Rees?...

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You might have met Goldie, our big gold Snail in the Laines, but did you know about Mini Goldie? Goldie’s sponsors, Brighton College have been tweeting about the adventures of Mini Goldie as he explores Brighton. So far, Mini Goldie has been pictured going for a...

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Last Friday we encouraged everyone in Brighton and Hove to take part in our #BeMoreSnail Day. In this fast-paced city, it’s often hard to remember to slow down and appreciate the things in life that make us smile. On #BeMoreSnail Day, we invited everyone to take the...

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Lots of Snail Seekers have been sending us photos of their pets meeting our Snails, we’ve seen lots of cute dogs, and even a cat sitting happily between The Brightonian’s antennae! You can see these by following the #BeMoreSnail hashtag on Twitter and Instagram. But...

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On Thursday 25th October, 94-year-old Jack Galway will visit as many of the Snailspace Snails as he can using his mobility scooter to get around. He’s already raised over £600 for Martlets and is hoping to reach £1,000 by the end of the challenge. Jack explains why he...

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Volunteer cycle pilots from Cycling Without Age Brighton have been helping local care home residents to meet our Snails! Cycling Without Age Brighton takes residents of care homes on slow cycle rides around the city. As a result, they're helping elderly folk in our...

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Six-year-old Grace Hopkinson has shown real determination – seeing every one of the 50 Snailspace Snails to raise money for Martlets, the hospice that cared for her Great-Grandmother a few years ago. Grace’s Dad Grant said: “We absolutely loved the Snowdogs and Grace,...

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With half term fast approaching, we thought we would highlight the rewards you can access through our Snailspace App. Half Term is a great time to get the family out on the Snailway. You could begin your Snail spotting adventure (or hunt down those last few Snails you...

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A children’s bookshop in Hove has been exchanging tweets with Brighton and Hove Libraries using the hashtag #SnailsThatRead. The BookNook The BookNook has two Junior Snails watching the world go by from their shop window. Melanie and Splats have been pictured reading...

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Are you ready for #BeMoreSnail Day? Friday 19th October is #BeMoreSnail Day. Throughout Brighton and Hove, schools, youth groups, nurseries, shops and businesses are taking part in a day of fundraising fun for Martlets Hospice. Whether it's supporting Norm's Snail's...

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BTNBikeShare have been helping the Brighton and Hove community to get active, save on travel costs, and reduce their carbon footprint, for over a year now. Huge supporters of the Snailspace campaign from the very beginning, they are offering the first 200 people to...

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The wonderful Daisy of ‘Yoga With Daisy’ is generously donating her time and expertise to support Martlets. Daisy is offering businesses from across Brighton and Hove lunchtime yoga sessions throughout October in return for a donation to Martlets. Aiming to encourage...

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Brighton and Hove were abuzz with excitement on Wednesday as the city prepared for the first official visit of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. Prince Harry and Meghan came to see the Royal Pavilion and city charity Survivors’ Network on their very first visit to the...

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Inca Snail, sponsored by Graves Son and Pilcher, was getting lots of attention on Wednesday morning as BBC weather presenter and Dancing with the Stars alumna, Carol Kirkwood, tweeted a ‘Snailfie’ of herself giving Inca Snail a big hug! Carol was in Brighton to report...

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For National Poetry Day, we're sharing the wonderful poem by David Attree which is displayed on the front of Mr Watts. Be More Snail. We all Race Along Bare, on slime I move, forward I take "Home" wherever I go Miserable? No! I will never be I have all I need My...

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Businesses from around the city came together to take part in our Snail Selfie Challenge. The challenge was organised with the help of long term Martlets supporters, Griffith Smith LLP. Therefore, teams were tasked with bagging as many ‘Snailfies’ as possible in 2...

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Horatio’s Bar on Brighton Palace Pier was the setting for our exclusive Snailspace launch event last week and what a night it was. The bar was packed out for the evening. We were pleased to be joined by so many sponsors, artists, celebrities and Martlets supporters to...

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Artist Judith Berrill has created two distinctive Snails, taking design inspiration for each from very different sources. These are Snails with tales to tell about two colourful characters – a fictional green-fingered gardener (with unexpected roots in the local...

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Our ambassador Fatboy Slim and Street Artist Cassette Lord, are hosting an exhibition of street art at the Big Beach Café on Sunday 16th Sept 4-10pm. Not only will there be art from the likes of Manic Minotaur (who is also a Snailspace artist - his snail,...

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You can pick up copies of the map at all Martlets shops in the city as well as at the city’s information points and download it today.Read more

Blue skies shone over a selection of junior snails outside Jubilee Library yesterday for the launch of our Junior Snailway. Our VIP guests, including the teachers, parents and children from the schools involved, Learners Ambassador Nick Sharratt and Sir Rod Aldridge,...

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Following on from the success of our volunteer programme as part of our Snowdogs event, we have now recruited a band of brilliant volunteers for Snailspace. Known as Route Masters, to tie-in with the travel related idea of the Snailway, these volunteers will be on...

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We’re delighted to announce that Turner Prize nominated artist and Brighton resident David Shrigley will be designing one of our giant snails. Shrigley’s contribution, sponsored by local printers One Digital, will be sited outside the Grade 1 listed Brighton Dome on...

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(Photo Credit: The Argus) We are delighted to have award-winning illustrator Guy Parker-Rees as one of our Snailspace artists. His design was chosen by our Print Partner and sponsor, Captiv8. Parker-Rees, who lives in Brighton, has come up with a design to celebrate...

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Family-run car repair and bodywork specialists, T. Reeve & Sons, have stepped into the breach to help varnish our final six snails to ensure they have a professional finish in time for the launch of Snailspace in September. More used to spraying cars than giant...

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Jenny Leonard is an artist who is no stranger to painting 3D animals. She has worked on many of Wild in Art’s Art Trails, everything from dragons to bees. She created a Snowdog for the i360 for our previous trail and has been commissioned to create an amazing snail...

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Another artist working in our unusual studio in Hove is Tina Davies who is a painter and potter. She uses a very different technique and explains how she has approached transforming her Snail. “I’m being sponsored by Martlets Care. The Martlets is really special to me...

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  This September Principal of Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, Nicky Davin, will be truly embracing the ethos of #BeMoreSnail as she takes part in her first ever triathlon to raise money for us. In her own words, Nicky may well be the final snail to cross the finishing...

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We caught up with artist Danni Smith whose design was chosen by The Ivy in the Lanes restaurant. It is the first big commission for this young local artist and she’s delighted to be involved in the project. We asked her about the inspiration behind the design. “I’ve...

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We are delighted to welcome Yeomans Nissan onto the Snailway as sponsors. The dealership serves the Brighton, Hove and Worthing area for all new Nissan and used cars. In particular, they want to promote their electric car, The Leaf, and are working with artist Jo...

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Pumpkin Patch nursery have been working hard on their Junior Snail. Read all about their design and their hard work to get it on the Snailway here.Read more

Many of the artists creating a snail for Snailspace are using a bright colour palette but perhaps none will be as vibrant as the Snail painted by Francesca McLeod. We caught up with her to find out what inspired her creation. “My sponsor is Brighton Marina, so I’m...

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Our rather unusual artist studio has been attracting a lot of attention recently and our media partner. The Argus popped in to capture some of artists at work...Read more

With schools breaking up this week we have been out and about collecting up our magical Junior Snails from nurseries, schools and youth groups across the city. We have been completely blown away by the amazing, creative ways in which all of our smaller Snails have...

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We gave ITV Meridian an exclusive look at Snailspace HQ recently, to see the progress of our snails. They gave viewers a sneak peak of what is possibly the UK's strangest artist studio. The result was this short film about our giant Snail sculptures and their artists....

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We’re delighted to announce that Hilton Brighton Metropole is taking a place as a sponsor on our Snailway in September. Members of staff got to meet two of our giant gastropods last week ahead of the announcement. Sascha Koehler, Area General Manager explained why...

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  We are thrilled to welcome breatheHR onto the Snailway as sponsors. The local HR software providers were particularly drawn to the campaign as the central message of #BeMoreSnail fits so well with one of their key philosophies. Their CEO, Jonathan Richards, has...

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We’re delighted that Brighton’s historic playhouse, The Theatre Royal, has signed up to sponsor a Snail. Ahead of the event in September, staff from the theatre gave their backing to our central campaign message to #BeMoreSnail. John Baldock, General Manager, Theatre...

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Our ‘Geo’ popped into The Ivy in The Lanes, for a spot of lunch recently and we’re delighted to confirm that the restaurant has come on board as a Snailspace sponsor. They’ve picked a local artist, Danni Smith, who will be creating a nature inspired design on their...

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This opportunity is now closed - thank you to those who volunteered! Are you a closet performer? A humble historian or an art addict? Want to meet people, re-discover this vibrant city and help a wonderful cause? If so, then joining our dedicated Martlets team and...

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We’re delighted to announce that Fastnet are an official Snailspace sponsor and have chosen to sponsor the 'Feeling Groovy' snail which has been created by local artist Pinky. Fastnet were born in Brighton 23 years ago in 1995 and currently provide internet services...

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As you’re probably aware our amazing Martlets ambassador Norman Cook, AKA Fatboy Slim, is spearheading our Snailspace campaign. You may remember that he sponsored a Snowdog, called ‘Boomer’, which was transformed into a working Boom Box by Ryca and sold for £20,000....

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R.T. Williams Insurance Brokers Ltd and Austin Rees Ltd, one of the city’s biggest property management agencies, will team up to jointly sponsor a Snail in support of the Martlets Snailspace campaign. Pictured from left to right are Nicola Williams and Lesley Bull (R....

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Snailspace Learners Ambassador and award-winning illustrator, Nick Sharratt, took on an unusual challenge yesterday. He spent the afternoon at Carlton Hill School, Brighton teaching the children, from reception to Year 5 how to draw themselves ‘jumping for joy’. Every...

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They're here! Our giant snails have arrived in the city and have made a temporary home at Snailspace HQ, Hove. We are very grateful to Matsim Properties for hosting our Snailspace HQ, which will also double up as a painting studio. Over the summer all of the snails...

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Nick Sharratt, our Learners Ambassdor gave pupils at West Hove Infants School a very big surprise when he helped deliver their Junior Snail. Pupils from reception, Year 1 and 2 were thrilled to meet the famous illustrator and get to have their picture taken with him...

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Martlets Care is the latest organisation to show their support for Martlets Hospice and the Snailspace campaign by signing up as sponsors. Their snail will take its place on the Snailway in Brighton alongside 49 other giant gastropods. Martlets Care is a home care...

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We are thrilled to announce that Peter James, a long-standing supporter of Martlets has signed up for his very own giant snail as part of our Snailspace campaign. Peter got up close to our mascot snail ‘Geo’ to help publicise the announcement and the fact that his own...

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Loch Associates Group are the latest company to show their support for Martlets and the Snailspace campaign by signing up as sponsors. Their snail will take its place on the Snailway in Brighton alongside 49 other giant gastropods. A local firm, Loch Associates Group...

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Martlets is delighted to announce the dates of our much anticipated Snailspace Art Event this autumn. The 50 giant snail sculptures, each uniquely decorated by artists, will sneak their way onto the streets of Brighton & Hove from Saturday 15th September until...

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We’re delighted to announce that Legal & General have signed up as a sponsor of Snailspace. With its office complex just around the corner from the Hospice, the company has been a consistent supporter, from undertaking fundraising activity to providing regular...

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We are delighted to welcome Hanover Care to the Snailway as Snailspace sponsors. Based in Hove, Hanover Care, provides high quality care and nursing support to people in Brighton, Hove, Worthing and Sussex, as well as nursing, care, and support work staff to nursing...

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Premier art retailers, artrepublic, are already raising money for Martlets ahead of taking their place as Snail sponsors on the Snailway this Autumn. Over two weeks they opened a pop-up unit next to their shop on Bond St selling prints at discounted prices....

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Students from Brighton Aldridge Community Academy (BACA), alongside the Aldridge Foundation’s Founder and Chairman, Sir Rod Aldridge, had a very unusual visitor to the school this morning. The giant gastropod, ‘Geronimo’, was there to welcome the Aldridge Foundation...

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More used to moving bricks and mortar, local building firm, Pilbeam Construction, picked up a very unusual load last week. Employees from the firm, alongside Director, Simon Pilbeam, got to move our beautiful ‘Golden’ Snail onto the newly remodelled Hospice forecourt,...

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The Brighton-based musician and business-owner, Fatboy Slim, has been a much-valued supporter of Martlets for many years and enthusiastically fronted the Snowdogs by the Sea campaign in 2016; recently launching Snailspace for us in October. Emma Knight, Head of...

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Our Mascot Snail ‘Geronmio’ is used to raising smiles wherever he goes, but he literally had pupils jumping for joy when he paid a visit to Snailspace sponsor, The Towers, in Upper Beeding last week. The Towers will be part of the Snailway with their own giant snail...

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We're delighted to announce that Brighton business Brandwatch, the world's leading social intelligence group, has signed up as Headline Sponsor for Snailspace, this autumn’s must-see public art event. Speaking about their decision to back Snailspace, Katja Garrood,...

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We are delighted to announce that Brighton’s iconic Grand Hotel is going to provide a home for a very special visitor this autumn. One of our giant gastropods will make itself comfortable on the lawn in front of one of the city’s most impressive facades. By the look...

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Award winning restaurants, The Salt Room and The Coal Shed (with sites in Brighton and London), have pledged their support to Martlets Hospice by signing up as a Snailspace sponsor.Read more

We’re delighted to announce that award-winning author/illustrator Nick Sharratt has climbed aboard the Snailway to become the Learners Ambassador for Snailspace, this autumn’s must-see public art event by the charity and Wild in Art.Read more

Established in 1996 by husband and wife team, Jim and Beth Malyan, Greenacre Recycling Ltd is the latest business to sign up as a Snailspace sponsor and claim its place on the Snailway this autumn.Read more

Geo the snail paid a trip to Brighton College this week to say hello to some of the school’s smallest pupils. The giggly gastropod is the mascot for this year’s Martlets Hospice Snailspace campaign.Read more

One of Brighton’s most established, independent business has signed up as a Snailspace sponsor. Based in the North Laine, Punktured is the city’s ‘go to’ piercing studio for people looking for body adornment.Read more

We're delighted to announce that Brighton property agents, Graves Son & Pilcher, are amongst the latest businesses to take their place on the Snailway this autumn. Speaking about their decision to back the campaign, Nick Mills, Managing Partner, said: “Established...

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Pupils from Hove Park School got up close to a giant gastropod to help launch the Snailspace Learners Programme, entitled The Junior Snailway. Artist, Katherine Griffin who is also a teacher at the school, created the giant snail called ‘Felicity’, inspired by her...

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Next autumn the streets of Brighton and Hove will come alive with a colourful and magical art installation featuring up to 50 giant snail sculptures, in aid of Martlets Hospice. Snailspace, the much-anticipated follow up to Snowdogs by the Sea, is reaching out to...

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Beating off stiff competition from SnailyMcSnailspace, Martisse, and Oscar Go, the public have chosen Geronimo, as the name for the ‘mascot’ Snail, the latest addition to the interactive public art event, ‘Snailspace’ in aid of Martlets next year. The name actually...

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