Rock Trust held their Sleep Out Charity Event on Friday night.

Pictured are Karen Towler with team friends Adele Mills and Jan Ward 
 
 

Participants at homelessness charity the Rock Trust’s Sleep Out event all bedded down for the night in Festival Square.


Pictured are (from front) Karen Towler with team friends Erin Shaw, David Paterson, Adele Mills and Jan Ward

The event in Edinburgh’s Festival Square (and around the Famous Speigeltent) helps to raise awareness of homelessness, and saw 150 people enjoy live entertainment from Gus Harrower and Monkey Barrel Comedy Club, before they bedded down for the night with only cardboard and sleeping bags to shield them from the cold.

Pictured in Festival Square are City of Edinburgh Councillors (from left) Lesley Macinnes, Eleanor Bird and Kate Campbell (who is also the City of Edinburgh Council homelessness champion).

Around £50,000 was raised, which will go towards the Rock Trust’s front line services supporting young people who are at risk of or affected by homelessness.


Pictured are Kate Polson (centre, Rock Trust chief executive) with City of Edinburgh Councillors Kate Campbell (left, who is also City of Edinburgh Council homelessness champion), Lesley Macinnes and Eleanor Bird (far right).

Photography for the Rock Trust from: Colin Hattersley Photography – www.colinhattersley.com – cphattersley@gmail.com – 07974 957 388.

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