Spend a night under the stars with ABC Trust this Christmas and help thousands of street children and young people in Brazil.

The ABC Trust invites you to swap your comfortable beds for cardboard boxes to take part in a 12 hour sponsored mass sleepout challenge on the floor of London’s well-loved Spitalfields Market. Once you have found your pitch for the night, ABC Trust will offer you some bedtime entertainment with fantastic live acoustic music by Brazilian band ZEEP, and a capoeira demo by the East London Capoeira Group.

You will also get discount hot food (from LEON restaurant) to help ease you into a good night’s sleep & free breakfast by ABC.

Event date: Monday 30th November
Location: Spitalfields Market, Crispin Place, East London.
Time: From 6pm on Monday 30th November until 6/7am on Tuesday 1st December 09
Fundraising target: Minimum £150 per person, via sponsorship.
Further Details: please click here.

Everyday, an estimated 7 million children are forced to face the violence, hunger and isolation of life on the streets of Brazil, with little hope for the future. ABC Trust helps transform the lives of the most vulnerable children. The ABC ‘Big City Sleep’ aims to raise awareness of the plight of homeless children and raise funds to give them a better future.

For the everyday Brit, the issues that Brazilian street children are facing is a distant concept, this event is an opportunity to bring it closer to home, by experiencing something totally out of our comfort zones. The difference is that we only have to experience it for one night before going back to our everyday comforts. We hope that through the Big City Sleep, we will give you a personal experience which will emphasise the importance of the work the ABC Trust does. All funds raised through the Big City Sleep, will go towards sustaining the vital work of our partner projects in Brazil who provide support, care and education to some of the country’s most vulnerable children and young people.