Join a CEO Sleepout near you and help people who need it most

CEO Sleepout is a charity set up to fight homelessness and poverty.

Our fight is funded with money raised by people like you: big hearted business and community leaders.

Spend one night sleeping outdoors, alongside your peers. Pledge to raise sponsorship and we’ll put the money you raise to work fighting homelessness and poverty in your city.

Will you join us?

I Want To Take Part

So far more than 3800 executives have raised £2,800,000, providing over 100 charities with the funds to change countless lives. Will you join them?

Latest Posts

  • The Business Leaders’ Call to End Homelessness For Good
    The Business Leaders’ Call to End Homelessness For Good
    3rd March 2021
    Posted By: Bianca Robinson
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  • BECOME A CHARITY PARTNER
    BECOME A CHARITY PARTNER
    22nd February 2021
    Posted By: Bianca Robinson
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  • MILTON KEYNES BUSINESS LEADERS’ SLEEPOUT GOES VIRTUAL IN BID TO COMBAT LOCAL HOMELESSNESS
    MILTON KEYNES BUSINESS LEADERS’ SLEEPOUT GOES VIRTUAL IN BID TO COMBAT LOCAL HOMELESSNESS
    16th February 2021
    Posted By: Bianca Robinson
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  • CHARITY RAISES £60,000 FROM VIRTUAL SLEEPOUTS AND CHALLENGES FAMILIES TO SLEEP OUT AT HOME THIS EASTER IN BID TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS
    CHARITY RAISES £60,000 FROM VIRTUAL SLEEPOUTS AND CHALLENGES FAMILIES TO SLEEP OUT AT HOME THIS EASTER IN BID TO COMBAT HOMELESSNESS
    12th February 2021
    Posted By: Bianca Robinson
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What is CEO Sleepout?

CEO Sleepout has raised £2.8 million for charities working hard to tackle homelessness in cities across the UK. You can read details of our beneficiaries and funds donated here.

The charity was formed in December 2013 by Andy Preston after two successful sleep-out events. These were held at Middlesbrough FC and Newcastle Utd FC in collaboration with Middlesbrough & Teesside Philanthropic Foundation. Trustees of the charity include Niklas Tunley of business law firm Endeavour Partnership and Abu Ali, Partner at Leathers Corporate Finance. CEO Sleepout is run by CEO, Bianca Robinson.

Why take part?

We believe in showing compassion towards others and making sure that everyone can live with dignity. Yet right now, hundreds of thousands of people in our country are homeless – forced to sleep on friends’ sofas and floors, live in crowded or unsafe places, sleep on buses or in cars or even stay out on the streets. And many more are at risk of becoming homeless.

By participating in a CEO Sleepout event, you’ll gain insight into the issues surrounding homelessness alongside like-minded business leaders. Sleeping on the ground for a night may be a little cold and uncomfortable, but it will be worth it because you could change somebody’s life.

Although our events don’t come close to what it’s like to be homeless (and don’t pretend to), they do three amazing things: 

1. Raise awareness among business leaders, who often want to do more to tackle the structural causes of inequality after taking part;

2. Raise big money which is put to use among charities at the front line of homelessness and poverty; and

3. Business leaders give up their time, and home comforts, to do something for others – and that’s a great thing.

Watch a short film about CEO Sleepout Newcastle below

Hall of Fame

Our biggest fundraisers
  • 1 Philip Marsden
    London 2015     £64,943
  • 2 Kate Donaghy
    London 2016     £14,512
  • 3 Darren Carter
    London 2014     £12,160
  • 4 Chris Laslett
    London     £11,740
  • 5 Cathy Corcoran
    London 2014     £10,883
  • 6 Andrew Allen
    Newcastle 2017     £9,748
  • 7 Paul Marshall
    Newcastle 2018     £8,515
  • 8 Daniel Philip Jessel
    London 2018     £7,671
Our biggest events
  • London 2015
    £180,000 raised
  • London 2016
    £170,000 raised
  • London 2014
    £155,000 raised
  • Newcastle 2018
    £119,500 raised
  • London 2017
    £93,600 raised
  • Newcastle 2017
    £90,000 raised
  • London 2019
    £85,000 raised
  • London 2018
    £85,000 raised