night for the homeless - event round-up from donation to delivery
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Event round-up of Dignity Entertainment's Night for the Homeless 2013. A team of 25 people took to the streets to deliver gifts to London's homeless from funds raised through crowd funding.TRANSCRIPT
Night for the Homeless 2013
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of
gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion. Chris Abani (Nigerian Author)
Night for the Homeless On 21 Dec 2013 a group of 23 people went in to the night in Central
London to spread light to the homeless who have to spend Christmas without a family or a place to stay.
In 6 hours we reminded 100 homeless people that they are not forgotten regardless of their social background, race, religion or nationality.
Super team on the night: Peter, Jie Ming, Shoba, Nadia, Lucia, Karen, Jack, Mikkel, Helena, Christos, Donald (photographer), Naheed, Ben, Nina, Torsten, Leena, Leo, Yaqub, Ed, Alex, Gosia and John (photographer).
Making It Happen • At Christmas 2012 Mikkel Juel Iversen and Yaqub Hussain created “Night for
the Homeless” through their company Dignity Entertainment. It all came together in 4 days but turned out to be a great success.
• This year we started a few months before as our event had been selected by Santa Barbara City College to benefit from their annual charity fashion show.
• 30 days from our event day of 21 Dec 2013 a fund raising campaign on the crowd-funding platform Indiegogo was launched.
• Pret A Manger proved willing to help as they did last year by donating more than 100 LoveBars.
• Our great friend Christos and his family offered to prepare 50 home cooked meals.
• We had a donation of 50 bottles of Innocent juice from the Waldorf Hotel • Friends of our Dignity Entertainment and Under One Sky Facebook
communities contributed messages of hope and light to the homeless. • Our fund raising campaign was hugely successful with £5325 raised for the
benefit of London’s homeless. • The funds were used to buy gift cards to Argos to enable the homeless to buy a
sleeping bag, tent, clothing or similar to get them through winter.
Fundraising
We received funds from more than 100 individuals and organisations
spanning all continents.
Preparations Santa Barbara City College
fund raising video Sourcing messages of hope and light via
Pret A Manger LoveBar pick up with Nadia G
Waldorf Hotel juice pick up
Nepheli, Agatha and Christos preparing food.
Getting Ready for Action
Final packing of gift envelopes with Helena Engstrand and Donald Linderyd.
Lighting Up Faces in Dark Places In 6 hours 5 teams searched bridges, alleyways, train stations and
alcoves from Victoria to South Bank to Kings Cross.
But there is more GOODNESS to come… Our fundraising campaign was so successful we decided to split the donations and go back on the street for another round in February.
We Salute You! A huge THANK YOU goes out to all who contributed to Night for the Homeless through donations, messages, food, drink and hands-on
participation…you made it all possible.
CONTACT: Mikkel Juel Iversen Producer [email protected] SkypeId: mikkel_dignity Twitter: @Mikkel_Dignity www.dignityentertainment.com www.facebook.com/DignityEntertainment @DignityEnt
Our passion is people! Dignity Entertainment was created to produce films and entertainment that inspire positive social change. We believe all of us have great potential and deserve a chance to realise it irrespective of colour, creed or roots. We will tell impressive universal stories to ignite courage in people to fulfil their potential…that is the real power of film.