The Chairman's Great Tommy Sleep Out is a fundraising challenge designed to support the estimated 6,000 veterans that are experiencing homelessness in the UK right now. Our team taking part in the Sleep Out will be sleeping under a shelter, whatever the weather, replicating the experience that many of ourveterans are coping with every night.

Research, and our extensive experience of working with veterans, shows that the next 50 years will be critical for those who have fought in recent conflicts such as Afghanistan and Bosnia. The need is real and urgent. Veterans, in particular, can struggle to access social housing and far too often found themselves on the streets. They find it impossible to secure employment without a fixed address, then face ongoing financial troubles and so enter a vicious cycle.

This is an opportunity to change the future for some of our nation's heroes and their famillies.