This is my first time, so please be generous!
Whilst I've donated to different causes over the years, I've never tried to fundraise myself before. And, this being my first try, I've given myself the silly task of trying to raise a decent amount of cash in just 2 weeks!

So what am I doing?
To support the cause, I am joining some work colleagues and a number of strangers by sleeping on the streets of Leeds City Centre as part of the Byte Night Yorkshire Sleep Out event. The sleep out date is Friday 4th October, and whilst I hope that the weather will be kind to us, I recognise that I'll be coming an awful lot more prepared to sleep on the street than any homeless person gets to afford.

Where does your money go?
All raised funds will go directly to Action for Children, a brilliant charity operating across all of the UK. 87p of every £1 gets spent directly on children.

What are the facts around youth homelessness?
Every year in the UK 126,000 children find themselves facing homelessness, and that's just not ok. For numerous reasons, this number has been on the rise over the last 10 years, and some of
the facts are awful to think about, for example:

51 percent of homeless youth are unsheltered — sleeping outside, in a car, or some place not meant for human habitation.

One easy way to help is to fund the organisations that are tackling youth homelessness either by directly supporting young people, or by dealing with these issues at their root cause, which is often family conflict, poverty and housing insecurity, racial disparities, and mental health and substance use disorders.