Activities / hobbies

Abc Trust's Big City Sleep needs challenge-loving fundraising enthusiasts

Date posted: Wednesday 25th November

Location: Central London

The ABC Trust invites you to swap your comfortable beds and homes for the basic provisions of a cardboard box and to bed down for 12 hours on the floor of London’s well-loved Spitalfields Market, in the very heart of the city.

Once you have found your pitch inside the market for the night, ABC Trust will offer you some bedtime entertainment in the form of a capoeira demonstration, some live Brazilian acoustic music, and hot food to help ease you into a good night’s sleep (hopefully?!).

When: 30th November
Start time: 6pm
End time: 6/7am
Where: Crsipin Place, Spitalfields Market, Brushfield Street, London E1

The Big City Sleep is a sponsored challenge with a fundraising target of £150 (minimum) per person, which you can raise through your friends, family, colleagues and neighbours. Through the individual sponsorship you collect as a Big City sleeper, you can help ABC Trust raise vital funds to help thousands of street children and vulnerable young people of Brazil. For the everyday Brit, the issues that Brazilian street children are facing is a distant concept, but through the Big City Sleep we hope to bring it closer to home and to raise awareness of some of the difficulties homeless children face during life on the street.

This is a one-of-a-kind event which really will play a huge part in fulfilling the ABC Trust’s aim of helping to transform the lives of vulnerable children through education, support and inspiration.

We have limited number of places, so please register asap.

If you cannot take part, please help us by spreading the word by passing this event to everyone you know! The more of us there are, the warmer we will be!
For more information and to receive your registration form to take part in this fantastic event, email

lydia.stevens@abctrust.org.uk or call Lydia Stevens on 0207 287 3818