The CEO SleepOut website, however, says the prison event on Robben Island has been postponed, not canceled.
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"The sleepout doesn't replicate the homelessness," she tells PEOPLE of her experience on behalf of the charity Centrepoint last Thursday on the chilly ground near the River Thames in London.
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CEO Sleepout UK is a charity that raises money to fight homelessness and poverty across the UK. Money is raised by business executives being sponsored to sleep rough for a night. CEO Sleepout was formed in December 2013 by Middlesbrough-based businessman Andy Preston, who is chairman of the charity, following a conversation with Bernie Fehon of Australia who created and organises similar projects there known as the 'Vinnies CEO Sleepout'. The first sleepout was held outside the Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough Football Club and the second inside St James’ Park, home of Newcastle United Football Club. Since then events have been held at numerous locations including Wembley Stadium, The Oval, Old Trafford Cricket Ground and Cardiff Castle, raising nearly £800,000.
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As with many of the charity's events, Andy Preston himself took part in the third sleepout to be held on Teesside in May 2016 when about 60 local businesspeople slept rough at Preston Park, Stockton-on-Tees Museum in Eaglescliffe, raising £45,000. In 2016 the charity announced a partnership with the UK arm of international business Leesa, a company with a significant track record of philanthropy, donating one mattress to charity for every 10 they sell. In November 2016, CEO Sleepout achieved the milestone of £1 million raised. CEO Sleepout UK is a sister charity of Middlesbrough and Teesside Philanthropic Foundation.
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On 28 May 1987 the NSW Heritage Council gave approval to replace a back verandah and sleepout from the rectory and replace with an extension containing two bedrooms and a family room.
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Preston transferred the Fork in the Road from CEO Sleepout to another local charity, Recovery Connections, after being elected mayor of Middlesbrough in 2019 Preston previously chaired Tees Valley Education, an academy trust operating in some of the UK's most disadvantaged areas.
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It was a high-set, timber-framed structure on timber stumps with a wrap-around verandah. It accommodated three bedrooms, kitchen, and bathroom. It was located on the northern edge of the school, away from the existing teaching buildings. A sleepout was added onto the eastern side in 1939.
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The roofs are sheeted with corrugated fibrolite. Surrounded by verandahs, the station residence is entered from the verandah to North Street. The front door opens into a hall extending to the rear dining verandah. The east wing has two bedrooms and a kitchen, all opening onto a sleepout verandah.
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A couple of years after launching the Philanthropic Foundation, Preston launched a new charity called CEO Sleepout which holds events across the UK to raise funds to combat homelessness and poverty. In December 2016 Preston launched a charity restaurant, The Fork in the Road, in Middlesbrough with the goal of providing employment opportunities for ex-offenders, recovering addicts and the long term unemployed. A number of the Fork in the Road restaurant’s staff came through a programme designed to offer precious opportunities to those who need a helping hand – recovering addicts, ex- offenders and the long-term unemployed. The fit-out costs and working capital for this social enterprise came from CEO Sleepout charity and Public Health England.
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More than 90 businesspeople took part in a Wembley event in October 2014, which helped to raise funds for the Cardinal Hume Centre and DePaul UK. DePaul UK is part of Society of Saint Vincent de Paul. At a second London event in 2015, £180,000 was raised in what represented the biggest CEO Sleepout event to date. Just before Christmas 2016 CEO Sleepout opened a not-for-profit restaurant in Middlesbrough, The Fork in the Road, which gave training and employment opportunities to the long-term unemployed including ex-offenders and recovering addicts, working alongside experienced catering professionals. Bar Zero, a dry bar for the recovery community, opened upstairs from The Fork in the Road early in 2017.
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The Ballarat Tramway Museum has restored this tram to working condition. An original horse tram was found being used as sleepout in Ballarat. After extensive rebuilding, and the discovery that it was the original Number One tram from 1887, it is now used for special occasions. The museum also operates two large W class trams from Melbourne.
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Williams first got politically involved through making submissions on family violence and child welfare issues, which she has a strong interest in. She has served as a member of the Community Child Protection Review Panel, was involved in the Waitakere Community Law Service and Community Waitakere, and was part of the Living Wage Campaign and the LIFEWISE Big Sleepout.
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SleepOut was founded in December 2011 on Lamu Island, Kenya. The company was created by Canadian hospitality marketeer, Johann Jenson and Kenyan digital entrepreneur, Mikul Shah. In June 2012, at the time of the beta launch, the platform listed 1,500 properties for rent throughout East Africa. In March 2013, the company launched NOMAD, an online travel and lifestyle magazine.
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Identified as standard type D/R3, the school residence retains important fabric of an interwar Department of Public Works teacher's residence. It is a high-set, timber-framed building with a hipped roof. It has a verandah wrapping around the eastern and northern sides, enclosed on the northern side with windows. An enclosed sleepout is on the southern side.
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Walls facing the former front verandah are single-skin, vertically-jointed boards with horizontal bracing. Under the main roof are 5 bedrooms, a sleepout, study, formal lounge with marble and tiled fireplace, dining room, living room, and a kitchen. A small hip-roof structure at the right of the house is sheeted in corrugated iron and may originally have functioned as a service wing or business office.
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In the early 1990s, the cottage was given to the Vietnam Veterans Association of Australia, Western Australia Branch (VVAA WA), who coordinated the restoration of the building to its original condition, with support from local community groups and funding from Lotterywest. A sleepout extension and bath, both non-original, were removed. The front verandah, extensively damaged by weather and termites, was replaced. Sections of the roof and brick work was repaired.
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By 1949, the 'Hut of Happy Omen' was complete, designed as an open sleepout with bunks and a large sandstone fireplace. She had another small house built next to 'Ahimsa' in 1975, called 'Sentosa' (a Malay language word meaning peace and tranquility). In 1970 Marie bequeathed her property to The National Trust of Australia (NSW), which she had helped in 1946 when she was the consulting solicitor who drafted the organisation's constitution.
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Renovations in the 1960s relocated the kitchen further to the south-east edge of the house, in the position formerly occupied by the maid's room. A round-arched loggia links the utility areas to the garage which provides accommodation for three cars. The second story accommodates four bedrooms, a bathroom and a sleepout. The expansive main bedroom is located directly above the lounge room in the north-east corner and has several built-in cupboards.
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The principal change was the addition of the four rooms at the rear of the main building. The four rooms consisted of a nursery on the northeast end. In keeping with Norman's original design, the roof and four rooms maintained the slope of the main buildings roof leading to the problem of very low perimeter ceilings in these rooms. At this time the bathroom was also built next to the kitchen, and the sleepout was glazed.
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Soon after this, the painting studio began to leak so Norman moved into the house. From the late1950s onwards he used the house as a virtual studio: keeping the model boats in the bedroom, using the courtyard for carpentry, cutting mounts in the sleepout and using the dining room for painting, writing and living. The spare bedroom he used for sleeping. In 1968 Norman installed his final statue, a fountain with the figure of a reclining woman.
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She appeared in 2011 on Channel 5's short-lived Vanessa Show as a regular panellist, as well as on MTV's Jersey Royals, and once, in 2010, on Heston's Celebrity Fairytale Feast (Channel 4). Caroline co- presented Sleepout Live in 2012 with Richard Madeley and Sara Cox. She played in televised TV poker tournaments for Sky and Challenge TV. The character Amber Rose in Sony's game TV Superstars was based on Caroline and voiced by her.
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It was sold again in 1966 when it was converted to a duplex. The property has since changed hands several times. When constructed the house was rectangular in plan with a central projecting open front porch containing the entry steps and door to the south. The porch was flanked by bay windows and the house contained an entry hall, two bedrooms, kitchen, dining nook, living room, bathroom, sleepout verandah to the south east and laundry under.
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Traditionally, planning and fenestration encouraged cross-ventilation for passive cooling in a variety of innovative methods, including fanlights, ceiling roses, and alignment of doors and windows to allow uninterrupted air flow. The veranda is the most typical inclusion in the plan, and can be used day and night as a semiexternal living space. In Brisbane, many people have tables and chairs for dining and a daybed or sleepout on their verandas. Whirly birds placed on roofs allow for hot air to be drawn out of ceiling spaces.
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Tobin started the CEO Sleepout UK charitable initiative in 2014 with Tony Hawkhead, CEO of Action for Children, where CEOs sleep out on the street to raise the profile of the issue of homelessness for children. In 2016, Tobin raised over £100,000 by running 40 marathons in 40 days for The Prince's Trust. In 2020, Tobin raised over £100,000 for The Brain Tumour Charity by trekking to the South Pole. Michael is Founder of The Tobin Foundation and has raised over £100K to date for Education, Empowerment and Welfare of Children.
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Those on the west accommodate fireplaces that share the double-sided chimney and have plain plastered ceilings and double hung sash windows to the verandahs. Those on the east side have timber boarded lining to the ceilings and double hung sash windows to the enclosed verandah which now functions as a sleepout. The enclosed rear verandah accommodates a dormitory style bedroom to the southwest end, a utility space to the middle and a line of bathrooms working off a narrow corridor to the east side. A pair of wide French windows open from the upper hall onto the north verandah.
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Kleckner also serves as an advisor for Anime News Network. Kleckner is passionate about the environment, and when his company moved to a new facility in 2005, he remodeled the facility to be LEED Certified, utilizing geothermal heating and cooling. He supports events and organizations including Orchard Place mental health shelter, Trees Forever, Paws and Effect, Reggie's Sleepout, The Rooftop Foundation, Central Iowa's Boys & Girls Club, Holding Tiny Hands Foundation, Amanda the Panda, and the Iowa Coalition Against Domestic Violence. His business also sponsors a program that provides work experience to children with special needs from the Dallas Center-Grimes Community School District.
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The house, the footprint of which is roughly square, has an asymmetrical layout. It contains a core of rooms comprising entry hall, lounge and dining rooms opening onto the now enclosed north- eastern verandah with the large main bedroom and a smaller second bedroom separated by a bathroom opening onto the enclosed western verandah or sleepout. A short hall separates the main living and dining room from the bedrooms. At the rear of the house, a kitchen occupies the south-east corner and is separated from the study in the south- west corner by the enclosed southern verandah that now serves as a long informal living area.
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Reid has been involved with a number of charitable causes, both professionally and personally. Reid regularly participates in the Vinnies’ CEO Sleepout which supports the St Vincent de Paul Society's work with the homeless and, in 2014, she won the People's Choice Award in the inaugural Dancing CEOs event in Brisbane for raising the highest amount for the Women's Legal Service. Following a visit to the Lockhart River Aboriginal community as part of Bond University's inaugural Yarning Up delegation, Reid and Giles donated $1 million to fund the Hawthorn Football Club's Indigenous Program over five years. In 2015, Reid and Giles brought their portfolio of philanthropic activities together under the banner of the Epic Good Foundation.
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The new police station and courthouse cost almost and was described in an Annual Report for 1934–35: "This...new building is of timber construction and has a corrugated fibrolite roof. In addition to the courtroom and office with veranda to same, the accommodation consists of three bedrooms, hall, living room, kitchen, pantry, bathroom and sleepout veranda, together with a veranda on front and back, the back verandah being enclosed to provide dining accommodation. A detached washhouse has also been provided, but the existing cell building, stables, earth closets, etc., from the old building have been reused." The original floor plan dated 30 November 1934 prepared by the Queensland Government Architect's Office shows a single story timber building comprising public waiting area, court room, and an office to the rear, open verandahs on the northern, western and eastern elevations and an enclosed verandah on the southern elevation.
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