Byte Night charity sleep-out hits new highs

Byte Night has for another year been heralded as a resounding success as leading names working in tech in the UK gathered last Friday to sleep rough in aid of charity NCH.
More than 200 executives and others from well-known technology suppliers took part.
NCH chief executive Claire Tickell said: "We anticipate we have raised around £250,000. [It will help] those affected by poverty, homelessness and abuse. But we still need to do more."

Dionne's story
Dionne Campbell, originally from Brixton, is now in her twenties but in 2001 was registered homeless for a year, mostly living in a hostel. She received help from NCH, who got her on the job ladder with a placement at Wandsworth Council. Training came by way of the Networking Academy programme rub by Cisco, a backer of Byte Night with a team sleeping out again this year.
"I had always had an affinity for IT but the course was my last chance to do it," says Dionne, who was sleeping out last Friday and now works on a helpdesk at Regents Business School, London.
"From where I've come from, to know that I've been invested in and gained confidence through the Cisco qualification, I can only be grateful and I thank God. Before I didn't think I'd make it, to be honest."