Byte Night is the IT industry’s annual sleep out in support of Action for Children.

There are many reasons why children and young people can find themselves vulnerable, without hope or without a safe, secure place to live. Action for Children deals with the issues that can lead to homelessness and helps change lives with vital independence skills, training opportunities and access to employment.

Each year hundreds of individuals and teams from across the IT and business community spend a night exposed to the elements in a bid to raise sponsorship and awareness of Action for Children’s work.

It all began 12 years ago when 30 individuals from the IT industry slept out and raised £35,000. Since then the event has grown to over 700 sleepers raising almost £550,000 in 2009 alone. Patrons, sponsors and sleepers include celebrities and leading figures, CIOs, systems developers, business managers, marketers and more.