on 22nd March Marlin and Yellowstone Environmental Solutions Team will be swapping their comfortable beds for a night under the stars in sleeping bags to fundraise for our most vulnerable veterans. The challenge doesn’t replicate rough sleeping, but it will give us an idea of the situation far too many of our nation’s veterans find themselves in.

For more than 100 years RBLI has helped the most vulnerable veterans. Recent global events have deeply impacted military veterans right across the nation and we have seen a 45% increase in the demand for their services for homeless veterans over the past year alone. The cost of living crisis is already having an impact and young, single, male veterans, in particular, can struggle to access social housing and many find themselves living on the streets. It can be impossible to secure employment without a fixed address, plunging them into worsening financial troubles and serious mental health struggles.