In January 2025, I, alongside several other students at BGS, took part in a sponsored sleep-out to raise money for the Greenwich Winter Shelter.  I organised this event for my scout unit.  Our aim is to raise £2500 for this local charity which gives vital support to those who need it most. 

Greenwich Homeless Project

Greenwich Homeless Project is a local charity which provides warmth, emergency accommodation and advocacy for people experiencing homelessness in Greenwich. The charity was founded in 2014 by a group of local churches who came together to offer their venues as places of refuge to an increasing number of homeless people in Greenwich.  

For 6 years, we operated the rotating winter night shelter model until the pandemic paused all operations.  We used this as an opportunity to renovate and refurbish a building, and relaunched from our new venue in January 2022.

Greenwich Homeless Project offers single room emergency accommodation for 13 people from October – March in our Winter Night Shelter.  We also run a year-round Day Centre for anyone who is homeless or at risk of homelessness.  Both projects are supported by our team of over 100 volunteers.

The Overnight Sponsored Sleep-out

We will hold the sleep-out on the 18th January where a large group of 14-18 year olds will sleep outside in and on cardboard boxes, at Severndroog Castle overnight. 

This is an amazing charity that always needs support. It also holds several other fundraising events, such as a sleep-out in tents and a carol concert.

It would be fantastic for local people to support this charity and us with fundraising for it.

We have just set up a go-fund me page: 

justgiving.com/page/sesusleepout2024

Many Thanks

Lucy Gowing, Year 12