It was a pleasure for the third year to join over 100 people who took part in the 2018 Coventry Sleep Out on Friday 12th October.
Myself, councillor Peter Male, councillor Marcus Lapsa and Neil Worwood spent the night under the stars in the atmospheric ruins of Coventry Cathedral in aid of St Basils.
This is a really good way that any person can help support this great charity.
All the money raised from this event will go towards their Floating Support and Positive Prevention projects, supporting over 400 young people, and helping to prevent youth homelessness in Coventry.
This is a sleep out where all the people involved constructed a dwelling out of cardboard and plastic and then slept in it overnight.
If you didn’t know about the event, would like to sponsor or look at how you can take part next year please go online and look up St Basils sleepout. You can donate directly here.
This ensures the money goes where it needs to go. www.stbasils.org.uk/help-us/donate/
Councillor Tim Mayer
Westwood Ward
Members Support,
Coventry City Council
Cats Protection is delighted to have been selected as a beneficiary of People’s Postcode Lottery. With over £340m raised for charities to date and three million players in Britain, this is a fantastic opportunity for the charity and the 200,000 cats that it helps every year.
People’s Postcode Lottery players will be helping Cats Protection’s homing and volunteering work throughout England, Scotland and Wales to the tune of £1,027,744.64.
The money will support the charity’s vital rehoming and volunteering work, funding hands-on roles such as Cat Care Assistants and Volunteer Team Leaders.
These roles play an active part in caring for unwanted or abandoned cats and kittens. Volunteer Team Leaders support volunteers to provide the best possible cat and adopter experience at the charity’s adoption centres, while Cat Care Assistants are responsible for day-to-day hands-on care for the cats.
This includes feeding and providing enrichment, as well as administering medication and giving additional care to those cats that need nursing.
Mark Beazley
Director of operations
Cats Protection
The National Autistic Society is looking for people and organisations who’ve done something amazing for autistic children, adults, or their families.
Perhaps it’s a teacher who has helped a child achieve something great, an autistic adult who has been campaigning tirelessly or a business that has put a lot of effort into making their workplace accessible.
If any of your readers know of a person or organisation like this, please nominate them for our seventh annual Autism Professionals Awards.
We want to celebrate their achievements, so we can improve understanding of autism and inspire other people and organisations to make a difference too. Find out more about autism and nominate by visiting: www.autismprofessionalsawards.org.uk
Carol Povey,
Director
National Autistic Society’s Centre for Autism
