Philtronics creates a fundraising team for Byte Night
Lesleyann Williams • July 22, 2019
What is Byte Night?
Byte Night is the UK's largest corporate sleepout. It works to support some of the 83,000 young people who are homeless in the UK every year through no fault of their own: family breakdown, mental health issues and abuse in the home are just a few of the causes which lead too many young people becoming homeless.
Where did it all start?
Simon took part in the Byte Night Cardiff sleep out alongside SPTS last October and he became a Byte Night Wales Board Member shortly after. He joined the event with a skewed perception of homelessness: this problem just effected cities, homeless people were making £100’s a day from begging and some had their own property, etc.
During the evening he heard stories from people in our community and it became real to him.
He was surprised that there was a bond created amongst all sleepers, a sense of community, teamwork, looking out for one another. That made sleeping out for one night the easy part. Walking back to the car wet and cold the following morning past real homeless people knowing he was going home to a hot shower and a cooked breakfast hit him hard and made him reflect on how lucky he was.
Byte Night is coming to Swansea for the very first time this year! Thanks to our links with the Ospreys, Simon has helped organise the first Byte Night Swansea event at the Liberty Stadium. This year, it will take place on Friday 4th October across 12 locations in the UK. It is an evening where team and individuals sleep out to raise money towards youth homelessness. The fundraising target is £500 per individual.
How Action for Children works
From before they are born until they are into their twenties, Action for Children help disadvantaged children through practical services and programmes that are proven to work. They provide vital support to the most disadvantaged children, young people and families across the UK. Last year, they supported more than 300,000 people, through 550 services.
Here are just some of the ways they did this…
- Families in crisis
- Disadvantaged young people
- Children who can no longer live with their birth families
- Children with disabilities
- Young carers
For more info, please visit www.actionforchildren.org.uk
and www.bytenight.org.uk
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