Suzie Branch, 2009 BYPY Winner, has challenged Birmingham’s new recruits to sleep out for a night to help raise money for the West Midlands homeless charity St Basils.
At the annual Birmingham Future “Welcome to Birmingham” event, Suzie urged the audience of new graduate employees and trainees to get involved with the city by supporting local charities.
She highlighted the forthcoming St Basils Corporate Sleep Out as a great opportunity to start getting to know more about Birmingham and the wider community.
“This is the second year that the team at BHMG Marketing and I will be taking place in the St Basils Corporate Sleep Out,” she said.
“I remember last year’s event so well – the dawning realisation a couple of days beforehand of what we had signed up for, quickly followed by a rising fear of whether we would actually be able to complete the challenge of sleeping outside with nothing more than a cardboard box,
“It underlined just how tough life is on the streets but it also proved to be a very positive experience for everyone in the team, so positive that they have committed to do it again.”
The St Basils Corporate Sleep Out is an annual fundraising event when Birmingham’s business community are encouraged to work together for one night to raise sponsorship for the charity by sleeping out.
“The entry fee is just £30. Thirty pounds allows each young person arriving at St Basils to work with a professional key-worker to assess their needs and create an action plan – in short it helps them plan their future, which is why I am encouraging our future business community to be sign up and get involved,” said Suzie.
This year’s event is being held on Friday 13th November on the St Basils car park in Digbeth and further information can be found on www. http://www.stbasils.org.uk. To register for this event please contact the SleepOut Team at fundraising@stbasils.org.uk
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