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CEO Sleepout is a charity set up to fight homelessness and poverty by arranging for
people to sleep outdoors for one night to raise awareness and sponsorship from their business contacts and friends. I will be spending the night of 18th November 2019 sleeping rough in Alnwick Gardens, Northumberland. The average night time  temperature for Alnwick in November is around 3 degrees and I hate the cold so I anticipate that this will be a very uncomfortable experience.

I volunteer on a regular basis for North East Homeless, attending twice weekly outreaches helping some of the most vulnerable homeless people in the Newcastle area. I have seen first hand just how easy it is for anyone to end up in this situation and how this can very quickly lead to severe and long lasting health problems as well as social exclusion. The Office of National Statistics has recently published the first “experimental statistics” on the number of deaths of homeless people in England and Wales. This estimates 597 deaths of homeless people in England and Wales in 2017, a 24 per cent increase over the last five years.   The mean age at death of homeless people was 44 years for men, 42 years for women and 44 years for all persons between 2013 and 2017; in comparison, in the general population of England and Wales in 2017, the mean age at death was 76 years for men and 81 years for women. Over half of all 2017 deaths of homeless people were due to drug poisoning, liver disease or suicide. In this context it is clear that more needs to be done to help the most vulnerable people in our society.

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