Join us for an all-night tramp through London and raise funds for Cardboard Citizens, the UK’s leading homelessness theatre company.
Setting off at midnight on Saturday, you’ll spend a night on London’s streets, walking 8 miles through the city until dawn on Sunday.
Throughout the night, our talented members, all of whom have had experience of homelessness themselves, will show you our city in a whole new light through compelling storytelling and immersive pop-up theatre performances.
Led by the experienced walking guide Henry Eliot, allow yourself to be transported back through London’s history, reliving George Orwell’s ‘Down and Out’ woes of vagrancy; visiting the church where Charles Dicken’s famously stumbled across ‘houselessness’, and viewing the dosshouses where Welsh Super-Tramp and poet W H Davies once sought shelter from the darkest streets of London town. As the night draws on and hunger invades, we’ll be gratefully met by a Soup Kitchen in Bloomsbury, a chance to rest and recuperate for the journey ahead. The final leg of our journey will lead us to the Kennington Workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin lived as a child. Here, with breakfast and a screening of his short film The Tramp, our walk will come to an end.
In London alone, homelessness has increased by nearly a quarter in the last five years. Help us to change that.