We didn't start the fire...🔥

But on May 10th, we are walking on it. Well, hot coals, to be exact.

When Fight for Sight invited Street Storage to join their fiery fundraising challenge, it sparked something in us. So now three brave souls, Simon (our fearless Fundraising Manager), Lilian (our fantastic Frontline Administrator), and Gary (a fabulous volunteer) will be raising funds for a blisteringly good cause - Street Storage.

Help us turn up the heat (in a good way) by donating whatever you can. Every pound makes a difference and might help soothe a few burnt toes too... ouch.

PS Feel free to enter a "custom amount" of £0 for the tip to Just Giving

Street Storage is the charity founded and run by my partner Rach just over five years ago. It is the only charity in the UK to provide safe, free and accessible storage for those experiencing homelessness. Whether that's somewhere to keep important documents, a place to store spare clothing when sleeping rough, storage of a few possessions whilst sofa surfing or somewhere to keep their most important belongings when evicted from permanenet housing, Street Storage provides a unique solution. With eviction rates soaring in the cost of living crisis and fundraising hit by tough economic times, this amazing charity is in acute need of more funds and corporate sponsors. Over 500% growth since 2021: I'd be proud of that in my business - it's a disaster in a charity like this. Please help them manage it.

To keep my mother happy....

Per the second law of thermodynamics, when two bodies of different temperatures meet, the hotter body will cool off, and the cooler body will heat up, until they are separated or until they meet at a temperature in between.[20] What that temperature is, and how quickly it is reached, depends on the thermodynamic properties of the two bodies. The important properties are temperature, density, specific heat capacity, and thermal conductivity.

The square root of the product of thermal conductivity, density, and specific heat capacity is called thermal effusivity, and determines how much heat energy the body absorbs or releases in a certain amount of time per unit area when its surface is at a certain temperature. Since the heat taken in by the cooler body must be the same as the heat given by the hotter one, the surface temperature must lie closer to the temperature of the body with the greater thermal effusivity. The bodies in question here are human feet (which mainly consist of water) and burning coals.

( "Can you walk on hot coals in bare feet and not get burned?". The Straight Dope. 14 June 1991. Retrieved 2007-04-13.)