upcoming events
Big SleepOut 2023
February 3, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - February 4, 2023 @ 7:30 am
| £5Can you sleep rough for one night to help those who do it every night?
Hope’s Big SleepOut has, for the past 11 years, raised over £20,000 each year for those who are homeless and vulnerable in our community.
This year we want to make the event our biggest one yet!
Here at Hope we are quite mean and want you to experience a simulated night of homelessness for in one of the coldest months of the year – February
We want to give you the most real experience we can in 2023 – sleepout for 12 hours, just a sleeping bag a cardboard/plastic shelter (no tents) in the car park of Goodwill Solutions.
Bring your friends & family, come as a team from work or on your own and we’ll put you in a team.
We’ll have challenges/activities throughout the evening such as ‘Build your own shelter’ competition, live music and bedtime story time.
‘Sleep -In’ Virtual Event
Do you have young children or wish to take part but would find sleeping out too challenging? For the second year in a row, we are running a virtual sleep out. Pledge to set up a shelter in your home on a hard floor, experience what it’s like to sofa surf and sleep on your sofa. Perhaps build a den with the children under table, lay cardboard on the landing or sleep in the bath! Choose a night to ‘Sleep-In’ for Hope or Join everyone taking part on the 4th by Zoom link. On the night take part in a range of activities such as shelter building, and poster designing. Try and sleep and join us again in the morning to share your experience.
It is a great way to to think about how it might feel to be homeless and to sofa surf. Take part (albeit virtually) in our Big Sleep Out Event to raise money to help those who experience this every night.
You can sign up using the same Eventbrite link, just select the ‘Sleep-In’ option.
Why sign up?
Many people sleep on the streets of Northampton and hundreds more need help feeding themselves on a weekly basis.
With the cost of living climbing every week, these figures see no sign of going down or even stabilizing.
Will 2023 be the year when you make a difference to the lives of those who are most vulnerable in our community – and have fun raising sponsorship at the same time as well?
