{"id":867,"date":"2007-08-20T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/byte-night-2007.htm"},"modified":"2009-10-28T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T11:00:42","slug":"byte-night-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/08\/byte-night-2007.htm","title":{"rendered":"Byte Night 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #000000; color: #ffffff; padding: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 1em;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytenight.org.uk\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/bytenight.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Byte Night\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nch.org.uk\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/nch.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"NCH\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both;\">For one night on 5 October 2007, I&#8217;ll be giving up my warm duvet and comfortable house as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytenight.org.uk\/\" style=\"color: #a8c516;\">Byte Night<\/a> 2007 &#8211; the IT industry&#8217;s annual sleep out in support of young people who are coping with life after care or facing homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be joining around 250 IT professionals and senior executives sleeping out next to London&#8217;s City Hall and Tower Bridge to raise money and highlight the problem of youth homelessness.<\/p>\n<p>Given that we live in one of the world&#8217;s richest nations, I find the following statistics to be pretty shocking:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An estimated 77,000 children and young people aged under 18 run away overnight each year in the UK.<\/li>\n<li>There are an estimated 32,000 homeless 16-21 year-olds in Britain.<\/li>\n<li>A third of young homeless people have tried to commit suicide.<\/li>\n<li>Each year, 10,000 young people are physically hurt or sexually assaulted whilst sleeping rough.<\/li>\n<li>Most runaways are aged 13-15 but a quarter are under 11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By joining in on Byte Night, I can help to make a difference &#8211; with your support.<\/p>\n<p>The cold, rough, night in London <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/markwilson-bytenight07\/\" style=\"color: #a8c516;\">will all be worthwhile if I succeed in raising \u00c2\u00a32,000 for NCH, the children&#8217;s charity<\/a>. Since its inception in 1998, Byte Night has raised over \u00c2\u00a31.5m for NCH youth homeless projects.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please sponsor me by visiting my online fundraising page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/markwilson-bytenight07\/\" style=\"color: #a8c516;\">http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/markwilson-bytenight07<\/a>.<\/strong> You can pay by credit or debit card, and the money will go directly to NCH, the children&#8217;s charity. Where supporters are UK taxpayers, the charity will automatically receive 28% extra in Gift Aid, which makes Justgiving the most efficient way of sponsoring me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>(Normal technology-focused blogging will resume shortly but I wanted to highlight this important issue &#8211; in any case, as Byte Night is exclusively for IT professionals, I think that falls within my technology remit!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For one night on 5 October 2007, I&#8217;ll be giving up my warm duvet and comfortable house as part of Byte Night 2007 &#8211; the IT industry&#8217;s annual sleep out in support of young people who are coping with life after care or facing homelessness. 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