Name: Sleep Easy 2017 - Peterborough
Start: 2017-09-29T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2017-09-30T07:00:00+01:00
Location: Peterborough Cathedral

Sleep Easy 2017 - Peterborough

YMCA Trinity Group are a locally-based charity at the heart of the community. We enable young people to develop to their full potential in mind, body and spirit to give them a brighter future.  Our support is spread across Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and into Northamptonshire.

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Save the date! 
SleepEasy 2017 is heading BACK to Peterborough at Peterborough Cathedral on Friday 29th September 2017.
Spend a Friday night under the stars to help us beat youth homelessness
When: Friday 29th September 2017 Where: Peterborough Cathedral Time: 7pm – 7am Entry Fee: £10 – Register before Monday 31st July 2017 to receive a FREE Sleep Easy Beanie 
What is it? 
Sleep Easy is a national YMCA fundraising initiative. The aim is simple: spend a night challenging yourself to sleep rough, raising money to help change the lives of vulnerable young people. All the money you raise goes directly to support our accommodation services in Peterborough. Since we started Sleep Easy events in 2016 we have raised over £15,000 towards accommodation services in Cambridge and Peterborough. Funds have gone towards welcome packs for each resident to help them settle in to their new home. 
 
What is homelessness? 
Over 3,500 people sleep rough in the UK every night. Hidden homelessness is a major problem in the UK with over 80,000 young people face homelessness every year, three times official figures. 
Homelessness is defined by the Government as ‘having no permanent home to go to’. The reality is you don’t have to be on the streets to be considered homeless, many homeless young people ‘sofa surf’ relying on the goodwill of others for a bed for the night and in some cases many years. 
Imagine how you would cope if you became homeless through no fault of your own. Maybe you were fleeing an arranged marriage? Or escaping from physical, mental or sexual abuse? Or your parents have found a new partner who simply doesn’t want you around? Where would you go? How isolated would you feel? 
Homeless people’s lives can get out of control very quickly; they can find themselves moving from place to place sometimes daily, often sharing their living space with strangers. With limited access to support and financial help serious issues can often occur, but it doesn’t have to be like this.
 
How we help? 
YMCA Cambridgeshire & Peterborough provides supported accommodation for homeless young people. In 2015 we helped to provide a safe place to stay for over 450 young people who had nowhere else to turn. YMCA recently provided accommodation for a young couple who had been living in a car in Peterborough town center after becoming homeless due to family breakdown. We currently have siblings in our residence whose who family have become homeless due to debt when their parents got made redundant. They now have a safe place to stay thanks to YMCA but their parents are sofa surfing until they can find more suitable accommodation. YMCA keyworkers are supporting both the young people and their parents to ensure a family is back together as quick as possible. 
 
What will Sleep Easy Peterborough 2017 involve?
 Starting at 7pm at our iconic Peterborough Cathedral location the night will involve activities that best replicate what it’s like to actually sleep on the streets. You will be provided with hot refreshments, entertainment and materials to make a shelter. However the reality is that many young people do not have the luxury of running water and toilet facilities as we will do in the Cathedral. 
Sleeping in the grounds of the Cathedral you will experience what it’s like to get minimal sleep as you feel vulnerable to the elements and other people around.
You quickly realise how cold it gets, even though you are able to bring your own sleeping equipment. At sunrise we will wake you up with a hot drink and breakfast before you return back to normal life after just one night on the streets. 
 
Sadly for thousands of young people the reality is very different. 
 
<H2 CLASS="MsoNormal">What did you take away from the Experience?</H2>
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<H2>“A new perspective on the conditions that homeless people have to deal with” – Participant 2016 </H2>
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<H2>“How lucky I am to have a warm house and comfy bed, others are not so fortunate” – Participant 2016 </H2>
</LI>
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<H2>“Just how hard life must be if you have no choice but to sleep rough” – Participant 2016 </H2>
</LI>
</UL>
How to take part:
                        To make a difference to the life of a young homeless person in Peterborough simply spend one night sleeping rough in the grounds of Peterborough Cathedral. 
Register yourself or your team by visiting 
Entry Fee - £10 per person – Register before Monday 31st July 2017 to receive a FREE Sleep Easy Beanie 
Kids under 16 go FREE! – All children under 16 must be accompanied by an 18+ and have parental permission. Alternatively they can enter a teddy bear to brave the cold and take on the challenge on their behalf and ask their friends and family to sponsor them. 
Once you have signed up, don’t forget to tell your friends and family what you are doing to help young and vulnerable people in Peterborough. The more people who know about the issues surrounding homeless and what you are doing to help, the easier it will be to fundraise. All money raised will go towards YMCA Cambridgeshire & Peterborough accommodation services in Peterborough. 
 
Register your place now and make a difference to a young homeless person!
 For more information Call: 01733 373188 or  Email: <A HREF="mailto:fundraising@theymca.org.uk" TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">fundraising@theymca.org.uk</A>
 
Unable to sleep out but still want to get involved? 
You can become a volunteer? Or make a donation or even collect clothing that we can give out to our residents and people on the streets to keep them warm over the winter months. Just visit <A HREF="http://www.theymca.org.uk/Sleep-Easy-2017" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.theymca.org.uk/Sleep-Easy-2017</A> to find out more!

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