Last year, we asked you to help us provide clothing for the people who are struggling on our streets.... and you blew us away!

This year we understand the need a little better, so we want to do more. Through LIFE outreach we have come to understand how brutally difficult life on the streets can look.

A sleeping bag might seem like a simple thing to those of us who have a warm bed to go home to. But to someone lost on the streets, it can mean the difference between facing another freezing night with some protection - or facing it with nothing.

The reality on the streets can be brutal... When sleeping bags get wet they become useless... people have their sleeping bags and belongings thrown out when the streets are cleared... sleeping bags and belongings can sometimes be burn or destroyed. For those reasons and many more, sleeping bags need replaced... again and again and again.

Behind every sleeping bag we can buy is someone's son... someone's daughter... someone's mum... someone's dad. They are people, no different to you and me.

We aren't trying to solve homelessness with sleeping bags. We're simply trying to make sure that when someone is lost and has nowhere to go, they don't have to face the cold night completely unprotected.

Last year you showed us what can happen when people come together for a cause like this. This year we are asking you to do it again! Help us to put warmth into the hands of someone who truly needs it.

Every £1 given takes us a step closer to that pallet of sleeping bags... no matter how small, every donation counts.

The people in need of these sleeping bags may be on the streets tonight - but they don't stop being somebody's child or somebody's parent, or somebody's family... Let's not forget them this winter!