22 | Tees Business
UP YOUR STREET?
Tees Business organises next CEO Sleepout
Preparing for the CEO Sleepout on the
Victorian Street at Preston Park Museum
are Dave Allan (DNA PR & Publicity),
Claire Preston (Sound Training) and
Mandy Shields (Teesside Philanthropic
Foundation).
Martin Walker from Mantis Media (right) is
joining Dave Allan in organising the CEO
Sleepout at Preston Park Museum on May 12.
C
ould you give up the comfort of your
bed for a night sleeping rough under
the stars to aid Teessiders in need of
a helping hand?
Tees Business is looking for local business
owners, directors and senior executives to
take part in the next CEO Sleepout event on
the night of Thursday, May 12.
Tees Business editor Martin Walker of
Mantis Media and DNA PR & Publicity owner
Dave Allan are organising what promises to
be an amazing fundraising event.
With the generous support of Stockton
Council, we’ve secured the unique setting of
the Victorian Street at Preston Park Museum.
Participants are allowed to bring along
a sleeping bag, while warm clothes are
recommended. There will also be access to
hot drinks and toilets throughout the night.
Along with Martin and Dave, those who’ve
already signed up to take part include this
issue’s cover feature star, Joanne McCue
Bannatyne, plus all four directors of our
principal media partners, Applied Integration.
Others include tech entrepreneur Alastair
Waite, Sound Training CEO Claire Preston,
First Choice Labels managing director Nigel
Willis and Paul Griffiths, managing director
of long-established Tees engineering firm,
Industrial Marine Hydraulics.
Proceeds from the event will go towards
funding a high-quality not-for-profit restaurant
in Middlesbrough that will provide catering
jobs for recovering addicts and alcoholics,
those who have suffered from homelessness
and those recently released from prison.
A share of the funds will also be donated
to the charities chosen by outgoing Stockton
mayor Ian Dalgarno, formerly regional
director of Hertel, namely Butterwick
Hospice, Daisy Chain and the Great North Air
Ambulance Service.
Dave said: “This is an opportunity to
spend a night alongside your business peers
doing something extraordinary to help make
Teesside a fairer place. We’re thrilled to be
holding the event on the Victorian street,
which should make the entire experience all
the more memorable.”
To register your interest in taking part
in CEO Sleepout at Preston Park Museum,
visit www.ceosleepoutuk.com
• CEO Sleepout UK is a national
fundraising phenomum that has
already raised close to £1 million
to fight homelessness and poverty
around the country.
• Since the first CEO Sleepout
outside Middlesbrough FC’s
Riverside Stadium in 2013, business
leaders have slept rough at a range
of landmark venues, including
Wembley Stadium, The Oval, Cardiff
Castle, Newcastle’s St James Park,
Birmingham’s Villa Park and Everton
FC’s Goodison Park in Liverpool.
• Thanks to the bright thinking of
Middlesbrough-based business
investor Andy Preston, the charity’s
founder and chairman, 15% of all
funds raised at every event comes
back to Teesside to support local
good causes.