Having worked with Everton in the Community during my time at Kingswood and now at PGL, I have such admiration for the scale and depth of the work they deliver. Their focus on creating opportunity, raising aspiration and supporting the most vulnerable mirrors so closely what we believe in at PGL. So Taylor and I are taking on the challenge of sleeping out in the stadium to help raise money for the youth of Liverpool.

This is the first opportunity for young Blues to take part in Everton in the Community’s Junior Sleepout at Hill Dickinson Stadium — sleeping out overnight in the stadium grounds in support of the Club’s official charity.

Let’s be clear — this isn’t a “sleepover”. It’s a challenge.

Spending a night outdoors gives young people a small but powerful insight into the reality faced by too many individuals experiencing hardship, while raising vital funds to support life-changing programmes across the Liverpool City Region.

By pledging to raise £60, participants are directly contributing to projects that support tens of thousands of people every year, covering:

• Health and wellbeing

• Employability

• Education

• Tackling anti-social behaviour, crime and exploitation

• Dementia and disability support

And the impact of even modest fundraising is tangible:

£10 equips a pupil with SATs revision books

£30 funds a travel pass so a young person can get to college

£50 delivers an E-STEAM session for schoolchildren in the Digital Skills Lab

It’s about resilience. It’s about empathy. It’s about young people stepping up for their community.