Sleep Easy

Sleep Easy
Friday 4 April 2025

YMCA Sleep Easy is back in 2025 and we need your help to raise awareness and funds so we can support more young people facing homelessness. Join us and spend one night sleeping out – one night can make a lifetime of difference.

Help create positive futures for young people in East Surrey. Sign up today!

19:00 on Friday 4 April through to 07:00 on Saturday 5 April
The Old Pheasantry, Tadworth

Could you challenge yourself to sleep out for one night so that others don’t have to? Join us sleeping out in the grounds of The Old Pheasantry outdoor residential centre in the stunning North Downs.

We’ll provide you with cardboard to build your shelter for the night, as well as food and hot drinks. You’ll get to experience sleeping outside for one night with a fantastic group of like-minded people. The evening has an informal feel with time spent chatting around the campfire, as well as an optional led moonlight walk.

By signing up, you’ll:

• Raise awareness of the challenges faced by homeless individuals.
• Be part of a powerful movement driving change in your local community.
• Help ensure that young people have the opportunity to rebuild their lives and reach their full potential.
• Raise much-needed funds for young homeless people.

Adult (18+) | £10
16-18-year-olds | £5

The Old Pheasantry, Merrywood Grove, Tadworth, KT20 7HF

If you would like to do your own Sleep Easy on the same or different day at a location of your choice, please contact us and we will support you!

Please email Joanna.Eade@ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk for more details

Last year, we provided a home to 137 young people along with personalised support to get their lives back on track. Any amount you can fundraise will go towards our Employment Support Fund, which provides financial support to our young residents to gain access to employment, education or training.

Many young people are experiencing issues such as domestic abuse, leaving care, family breakdown or mental health issues. As a result, they become homeless because it’s safer to leave home than stay, or they simply have nowhere to go. At YMCA Hillbrook House and our move-on properties, we provide young people with a home.

While this event doesn’t aim to replicate the reality of homelessness, a night spent sleeping out helps us to imagine what it is like to not have a safe, warm place to call home, raising awareness and much-needed funds.

You can set your own fundraising target and every penny raised supports young people affected by homelessness.

If you can’t participate, you can still support our Sleep Easy fundraisers by making a donation.

Does your company want to help local young people to get a new start? Sponsor a box at Sleep Easy! 

£100 per box 

• A3 print out with your company’s details and logo on a box at Sleep Easy 
• Social media mention and thanks before, during and after the event 
• Photo of all sponsored boxes and thanks in our eNewsletter 

The box will be used by one of our Sleep Easy participants on the night, so there’s no need to attend (although you are very welcome to)! All money donated will go towards supporting our young residents into education, employment and/or training. 

Please read the Sleep Easy terms and conditions 

For more information, please contact us.

T 01737 779979
E challenge@ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk