On the first Saturday in December every year, We Shall Overcome volunteers and supporters take part in a sponsored rough sleep to raise funds and awareness for the support of our homeless and vulnerable friends coming to us for support. Our "Rough Sleepers" only use whatever they could reasonably carry with them if they were genuinely homeless and having to survive life on the streets and either sleep out here at The Station or in their own gardens, yards or wherever else they can join in. It's only one night, but it's hard and it really does make you realise just how long a night is out there for those living this.....

This year is our tenth rough sleep and like all the ones previously we hope to raise funds that will help us to provide extra support over the Christmas period to those who are particularly vulnerable and isolated, but unlike previous years we are also facing an unprecedented need at the door here every day due to the cost of living crisis and very genuine food poverty. We now routinely feed over 120 people each and every day and we provide that support 7 days a week, every day of the year apart from Christmas Day, when we instead work at The Town House to provide cooked Christmas Dinners to all our homeless lads and lasses.

This year we already have volunteers pledged to take part who are key workers and those who work professionally on the front line evert day, as well as volunteers representing a number of our partner community groups and charities, others who support We Shall Overcome and some of the people who were themselves homeless and coming to this door, but are now paying it forward having rebuilt their lives. We even have a couple of pensioners who are in their seventies and eighties and unable to rough sleep, but are instead "sofa surfing" to support us.

We Shall Overcome is NOT a charity, we are a community group and family that spans many towns and cities across Britain and we do this because we care.