We reach a Grand!

We have only had our sponsorship page open for four days and we have reached £1,000.00 in donations - and more with Gift Aid from UK Taxpayers.

Thanks to all that have donated so far for you generosity, and speed of opening your wallets!

Why are we doing this?

As we told Silicon.com:

Benson said: "I am really pleased to be involved with the silicon.comrades and such a worthwhile cause. What we 'experience' is actually normal life for the unfortunates that Byte Night aims to help. I hope what we do, and the people we browbeat to support us, makes a difference, however small."

And Evans added: "I had known about Byte Night for a few years but had never got around to getting involved. Having taken the time now to find out more, this is a fantastic opportunity for the whole IT sector to support those most vulnerable teenagers. NCH can help people, the same age as my kids, who have fallen through other support networks and stop them getting into the downward cycle from sleeping rough."

The team, all members of silicon.com's CIO Jury, have also set up a page where silicon.com readers can contribute to this fantastically good cause.

Steel said: "As a public sector CIO and, now, the president of Socitm I'm used to thinking about how ICT can be used to promote improved service accessibility through digital inclusion, but Byte Night provides a special focus that's about the really hard to reach, most vulnerable people in our society, who happen also to be a key part of its future. I'm proud to represent public sector ICT in such a worthwhile cause. "

How did we get into this?

Like many things in IT it just started with an email

Which led to a conference call...

And before we knew it we were committed.

The email was from Steve Ranger, editor of the IT News website Silicon.com asking if we would like to join a charity sleepout.

The call told us more on  the work of NCH , now Action For Children, the valuable work they do, and how Byte Night was the charities major corporate fundraising event.

Did we want to get a team of four or five? And then there were four of us....