Give up your bed for one night and help raise vital funds for vulnerable children. Get together with your colleagues and join us in Penarth
On Friday 7 October 2022, the Boycott your Bed Wales Sleep out will be hosted at Action for Children’s Headlands School in Penarth.
Get together with your colleagues. Create a dream team. And take on the challenge of sleeping out.
Fundraise in the lead up to the national event on 7 October and on the night you'll be involved in a unique experience of bonding with your team. Spend an unforgettable night sleeping out under the stars and help make children’s dreams of a safe and happy childhood come true.
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Use our range of downloadable materials and resources to help you raise money for Boycott your Bed
By boycotting your bed, you’ll raise vital funds to support children in need of help across the UK.
What to expect on the night
Corporate teams will gather at Headlands School for a meal designed, cooked and served by the young people who attend Headlands School.
After a night of food, networking and some entertainment, teams will head out to the all-weather football pitch to sleep under the stars. You may even receive a visit by the resident alpacas during the night.
More details about the event will be released soon so make sure you’re signed up to get the latest news.
What is Action for Children’s Headlands School?
We are so excited to be hosting Boycott Your Bed Wales at Action for Children’s Headland’s School. At this unique venue, you'll be surrounded by history and the exceptionally forward thinking, innovative services we deliver.
Headlands is an independent day and residential special school that provides high quality education and care to children and young people aged 7 to 19 years. The school is designed for those with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties, challenging behaviour and Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Headlands helps develop young people's wellbeing and independence through an individual approach to education and care.
We look forward to welcoming you and your team for a very unique Boycott Your Bed at Headlands School.
The event and sleepout will take place at Action for Children’s very own Headland’s School, 2 St Augustine’s Road, Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Headlands is one of our services that supports children and young people with emotional, behavioural and social difficulties, challenging behaviour and Autistic Spectrum Disorders.
The exact timings of the event are still to be determined.
Typically the evening starts at around 6pm for food, drinks and networking. Sleepers head outside around 11pm, and are given breakfast at around 6am the following morning before heading home.
As this is a corporate networking event, it's encouraged you bring along a team of colleagues. However, we welcome anyone to take part in Boycott your Bed Live 2022.
We advise that you bring warm clothes and something you'd like to sleep in/on (i.e. a sleeping bag or sleeping mat). We'll provide tarpaulins and foil blankets for the safety of all participants.
We have another event called Boycott your Bed: Stay Up, which can be done at home. This event will not have a live element. You can find out more at on the Boycott your Bed: Stay Up event page.
The team will work hard to ensure that all participants are safe throughout their Boycott your Bed experience, with dedicated security, safety equipment and processes in place to take care of every eventuality.
They'll also continue to closely monitor the situation with Covid-19 and commit to following any government guidance in place at the time of the event.
If you have any specific safety-related questions, the team will be happy to answer them at [email protected]
Dependent on the nature of the disability, some people might find participating in the event uncomfortable. However, the Events Team will do everything they can to make the event fully inclusive and accessible.
If the team are made aware of specific accessibility issues in advance, they can work with you to ensure that necessary measures are in place, and help decide whether the event is a good fit for you/the person.
Action for Children’s vision is for every child in the UK to have a safe and happy childhood and the foundations they need to thrive. We protect and support children and young people. We do this by providing practical and emotional care and support. We make sure their voices are heard. And we campaign to bring lasting improvements to their lives.
Figures from the Department for Work and Pensions on households below average income (HBAI) statistics show 3.9 million children in relative poverty. You can find out more on the gov.uk website under statistics, households below average income for financial years ending 1995 to 2021.