YMCA Crewe is calling on its local community to come together and sleep rough for one night in March to support local, homeless young people.
Since launching in 2010, YMCA's 'Sleep Easy Week' has seen more than 7000 people sleep rough to raise more than £1.5million for local YMCA services that help young people rebuild their lives.
This will be the first Sleep Easy night that YMCA Crewe has organised, and is aiming to raise up to £15,000. Money brought in will help YMCA Crewe continue to work with over 300 local people each year, providing temporary accommodation and support services which help residents build healthier lives, and work towards a thriving future developing the assets and skills required to be ready for work and training.
I'm supporting YMCA Crewe's Sleep Easy 2020 to play my part in helping reduce the risk of homelessness, and as a way of showing young people in our community who are homeless that the public do care about them.