Woking YMCA 'Sleep Easy'
Dear Friend,
Please can you spare 2 minutes to read this and consider doing something to make a difference in the lives of homeless young people sleeping rough this winter?
YMCA Sleep Easy – ‘sleep rough so others don’t have to’
Spend a night challenging yourself, having fun and raising money to change the lives of homeless young people.
Every night YMCAs provide rooms and support for 7000 young people who would otherwise have nowhere else to sleep. To mark Poverty and Homelessness Action Week some YMCAs in England (including Woking YMCA) will be staging ‘sleep out’ events.
What is the YMCA Sleep Easy?
On Saturday 30th January 2010, hundreds of people will sleep rough to highlight the issue of youth homelessness and raise vital funds for the YMCA’s work with young people.
Sleep Easy events will be taking place in towns and cities all over the country, and the money you raise will go towards helping young people in your community build a future. So why not spend a great (albeit chilly) night making a real difference to the lives of young people?!
Woking YMCA Sleep Easy
Money raised by Woking YMCA will help the homeless young people in and around Woking with advice and support as well as getting them a bed and a home! Most importantly, the money will go towards building a housing project in Woking.
We have the whole team sleeping out and some other organisations are getting involved too. We have secured the support of Millets, MacDonald’s, Waitrose and the Chertsey Road Service Station.
To sponsor us please visit our ‘Just Giving’ page: www.justgiving.com/wokingymcasleepout
For more information about Woking YMCA and the Ypod please visit: www.wokingymca.org.uk
You can also visit the YMCA England Sleep Easy page for more information about Sleep Easy events taking place across the country: www.events.ymca.org.uk/sleepeasy
Youth Homelessness: The Facts
Kind regards - Terry Eckersley -
CEO, Woking YMCA, serving the North West of Surrey with excellence.......The breakdown of family relationships has been identified as the main cause of homelessness, often following years of family conflict and some violent and abusive situations. In a survey of 50 families affected by youth homelessness, 72% of parents believe that extra help could prevent family breakdown. Social and economic disadvantage are also factors and young people who become homeless are often from marginalised backgrounds. Research shows that among those most likely to become homeless are young people who have had a troubled childhood, including parents with mental health problems, family upheaval and violence and abuse within the home. Self harming, involving drugs, alcohol, crime and violence are also behaviours linked with homelessness. Homelessness impacts upon the mental health and well being of young people. A significant minority of young homeless people have complex needs. Data on youth homelessness is limited and is based only on the numbers of young people who have sought help from agencies and service providers. There are many more hidden homeless who rely on extended family or friends to provide them with a floor, a sofa or a bed to sleep on. Young people aged between 16 and 25 made up 39% of the total homeless population during 2005/6, based on government figures for England. Of the 36,770 young people who were deemed to be statutorily homeless, 7,440 were aged 16 to 17 and 900 were aged 18 to 20 and had previously been in Local Authority care. Both these groups have priority needs under housing legislation. www.justgiving.com/wokingymcasleepout
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