What is Sleep Easy?

Homelessness is a harsh reality for far too many people in Derby and Derbyshire. Each year our supporters spend a night sleeping outside to raise awareness and vital funds to help young people, families and communities facing hardship locally. When we go without a bed or a roof over our heads on a cold night it can be challenging, but we have a warm home to go to. The event doesn't replicate how it feels to be scared, hungry and alone, not knowing where you will be able to lay your head next. Join our amazing Sleep Easy community and come together with others who want to make a difference.

Entry includes food, drinks, cardboard boxes and good company around the camp fire. This is a fantastic team building opportunity for businesses or groups and we also welcome children, accompanied by an adult.

How Does Sleep Easy Help:

Funds raised from Sleep Easy enables our teams to continue providing vital support to our young people, individuals and communities most in need. Each night we provide housing for 212 individuals, all of whom temporarily find themselves without a place to live. We also offer a range of support services from our Padley@YMCA Derbyshire Community Hub.

We offer warm safe spaces, access to home cooked meals and food parcels, counselling, support and advice on a range of issues including healthcare, welfare, housing and debt. Daily activities help people to develop skills and resilience, including sports, arts and crafts, horticulture, wellbeing, volunteer opportunities and work placements programmes.

We help each individual move along their positive pathway so that they can truly belong, contribute and thrive.