Executive Sleep Out
When we say we want to help and support our charity we mean it! November
11th 2010 will see the Cocoon team taking up the Centrepoint gauntlet, to
sleep on the streets of London to raise awareness and money for the charity.
The Cocoon team attended the Annual Centrepoint executive ‘Sleep-Out’ at Leadenhall Market off
Gracechurch Street in the City of London last November, and will be attending this year's event.
Youth homelessness is one of the least discussed but most pressing problems in the UK today. According to research undertaken by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and York University, more than 75,000 people
between the ages of 16 and 25 experienced homelessness in 2007. The legacy of this is higher drug and
alcohol use, which leads to crime and, ultimately, a new generation of potentially homeless young people.
This event was an opportunity for senior business figures to recognise publicly the role safety and opportunity plays in a successful life and, in turn, help Centrepoint provide help for some of the most vulnerable and disenfranchised Young People in the UK. In previous years, business leaders from King Sturge, Royal Bank of Scotland, Standard Chartered, Eat, GAP, Grant Thornton, and Ludlow Thompson, amongst many others, have supported Centrepoint in this way.
Over the past few years, the Sleep Out has become one of Centrepoint’s most potent fundraising and media awareness tools but 2009 – during the 40th anniversary celebration – the aim was to maximise that potential.
Please click on the link below to see some photographs from the night
