With the current financial climate and cost of living crisis more and more people are struggling to afford to heat their homes, put food on their tables or a roof over their heads. Some young people don’t even have those choices sometimes due to family disputes or domestic abuse or just falling on hard times.

To try and do our bit to help support some of those young people we are doing a fundraiser in March which is to support youth homelessness. We will be raising money for the Roundabout Homeless charity in Sheffield who do some fabulous work.

They aim to make sure no young person in South Yorkshire experiences homelessness. Helping to empower young people to break the cycle of homelessness by helping them develop long term independent living skills and supporting them with their health, education, employment and training needs.

Roundabout now supports over 350 young people aged 16-25 every day. Providing emergency accommodation and key services delivering comprehensive programmes of training, involvement and empowerment which help to prepare young people for independent living.

We are hoping to raise money through a sponsored sleep out. Where we will be sleeping rough for one night. This will be in the clothes we have on, sleeping bag, pillow and cardboard boxes as a mat. We will be sleeping outside, and Clowne Town Cricket Club have kindly let us use the space under their veranda and to use and their toilet if nature calls. We will be starting this event between 7-8pm in the evening and going through until 9-10am the following morning.

Food and drink, we are trying to make this as challenging as possible for ourselves so we will be having a soup and water.

If you feel that you can sponsor us that would be fantastic, we have set a target of £600 which would be incredible to hit. We will be putting up a few posts on our social media each week about the sleep out and highlighting where the money goes to and how it is spent alongside some of the stories of the people it will be benefitting.

Thanks so much for reading