Thinking outside the box

3 Goodgymers set their alarms for an early start at Coventry Cathedral ruins to support the Coventry Sleepout, organised by Cyrenians/St Basils and YMCA Coventry and Warwickshire & Heart of England and a part of the Coventry 2021 City of Culture ‘HOME’ festival. Sunday 10th October also marks World Homelessness Day.

Our task was to help tidy up a huge pile of cardboard that had been used to make sleeping spaces during the sleepout. We walked over two miles moving the cardboard towards the skip, working alongside lots of other volunteers from the different charities involved. Once we had filled the skip, several bins and plenty of bin bags (all before 8am), it was time to go home for second breakfast- we certainly earned it today!