Rewired is taking part in St Basil’s Big SleepOut


Yes, that’s right you heard correctly, this December three members of the Rewired team will be braving the winter weather and sleeping rough for a night to raise money and awareness to support St Basil’s charity, which helps prevent homelessness.

From 6pm on Friday 2nd December all the way through to 6am the next morning myself (Sam), Ruth and Tom will be huddled in our cardboard boxes, and considering the arctic temperatures Birmingham experienced last December we think that’s worth some sponsorship, don’t you?!

Still need tempting, how about some cold hard facts?
o    St Basils helps 4,000 homeless people each year and can accommodate 400 young people per night.
o    St Basils works with young people aged 16-25 who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.
o    St Basils can offer accredited Life Skills courses to young residents and has extensive Learning, Skills and Work Programmes.
o    In order to keep up all this amazing work, St Basils needs to raise at least £500,000 per year.

Now in a further attempt to encourage you into sponsoring, I just want to point out that our dwelling for this cold winter evening will be a cardboard box and a plastic bag! I will however, also be wearing as many clothes as physically possible!

If you would like to help support the Rewired team then please visit our Virgin Money Giving page - any donation would be greatly appreciated!


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