Supporters of YMCA Sutton Coldfield are coming together on the evening of Friday 4th April 2025 for an evening of awareness raising, reflection, and fundraising in support of vulnerable young people in Sutton Coldfield and wider Birmingham.
YMCA Sutton Coldfield Sleep Easy is back for 2025. Could you challenge yourself to sleep out for one night so that others don’t have to? Sleep Easy 2025 will be hosted at the Gracechurch Shopping Centre on Friday 4th April 2025.
Sleep Easy is a fundraising initiative raising money to help change the lives of people at risk of facing homelessness and/or poverty locally. Scores of brave participants will be swapping their warm beds for sleeping bags, braving low temperatures and hunkering down beneath the stars for one night.
We ask people to take on this tough challenge with a mission to raise awareness of those facing homelessness and raise vital funds to help our YMCA continue to support those most in need.
Since 2010, Sleep Easy has seen more than 7,000 people sleep away from the comfort of their beds to raise more than £1.5M for YMCA services that help young people rebuild their lives.
Each night YMCA Sutton Coldfield provide housing for 39 young people, all of whom temporarily find themselves without a place to live. Alongside this we provide a whole host of services for individuals in our community including support for young carers, youth work programmes and services for children and adults with disabilities.
Funds raised from Sleep Easy enable our teams to continue providing vital support to our young people, individuals and communities most in need including; support towards independent living, resident engagement, mentoring, counselling, daily activities including sports, arts and crafts, wellbeing, volunteer opportunities and work placement programmes all with the aim of supporting those we serve to move forward with their lives and to belong, contribute and thrive.
* Charities pay a small fee for our service. Find out how much it is and what we do for it.
