Sleep Easy is a fundraising challenge event asking you to spend one night sleeping rough, all to raise vital funds to help tackle the root causes of youth homelessness.

You will receive two cardboard boxes to create your shelter for the night and although this isn’t a true reflection of how homeless people live, we hope to give an insight into how it feels to not have a safe place to call home.

Last year, YMCA supported 570 young people with a safe place to call home, across the Black Country – a total of 131,185 nights that those young people were not forced into street sleeping or sofa surfing.

100% of fundraising from Sleep Easy goes into our Moving Forward Fund, which provides young people who are ready to move-on from YMCA into their own place, with access to a £250 grant towards items to make their space a home. This has included washing machines, sofas, kitchen appliances, bicycles to commute – all of which may seem like small things, but can be the make or break of a young persons’ successful move to living on their own.