Will you please join our Big Sleep Out this October?

It’s back!

Our Big Sleep Out is back this October.

It’s always a popular event, with local people choosing to come together and sleep under the stars to raise money for local families and individuals who are homeless and facing acute crisis.

Will you please join us too?

This year, on World Homelessness Day – Saturday 10 October – we’ll be headed to Old Bedians sports centre in Didsbury, for this year’s event.

Participants will be dusting off their sleeping bags and wrapping up warm as they join us for a special night of fundraising.

As people bed down for the night under the stars, we’re all reminded of the difficult conditions experienced by anyone sleeping on the streets or worrying whether their temporary accommodation is making their mental or physical health worse.

Patrick O’Dowd, director of our charity said: “The number of people from Greater Manchester and Lancashire who come to our service at critical times of need is increasing significantly.  Many adults and children simply don’t know where they’ll be laying their head tonight and that’s just not good enough.

“As a charity that believes everyone should have hope and a safe, secure place to call home, we’re adamant that we won’t stop calling for change and supporting people at times when they need us most.

“We can only carry on supporting people and helping them as they transform their lives with dignity, thanks to supporters who join events like our Big Sleep Out or help us in other ways. That’s why it’s so important.  We can only continue to be there for others thanks to that kindness.

“The Big Sleep Out isn’t meant to truly represent what it’s like to be homeless or sleep rough, but gives us all a chance to take a moment and reflect and think about the awful situations people are facing every night in our area.

“So please, if you can, join us by choosing not to sleep in the comfort of your own bed for the night of 10 October, and ask people to sponsor you to do so too.  We’ll be hugely grateful – and most importantly your efforts really will change lives.”

To sign up, click here now.

The difference your Big Sleep Out could make…

• Raising £45 in sponsorship could help pay for hot meals for 15 people at one of our homelessness day centres
• Raising £95 could ensure that we’re able to provide hot shower facilities for 70 of the most vulnerable people in our communities.
• Raising £250 could pay for a programme of activities for people experiencing homelessness such as learning how to budget and cook for themselves or skills that will help them into work .
• And £1,500 in sponsorship could help provide safe, supported accommodation for someone for a year, and prevent them being homeless.

Unable to make the date and join our sleep out?  Why not hold your own on a day that suits you instead?  Click here to find out more.