Sleeping in St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Darlington UK

May Saint Cuthbert be with them. 

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VOLUNTEERS will be raising awareness of the dangers of sleeping rough by spending the night in a churchyard where a homeless man was killed.

The group of volunteers, staff and residents of Tees Valley YMCA will bed down in St Cuthbert’s churchyard, in Darlington, to raise awareness of youth homelessness.

The sleep-out, on Friday, January 28, will launch Poverty and Homelessness Action Week.

Thousands of young people under the age of 18 become homeless, which makes them vulnerable to unemployment and dropping out of education.

St Cuthbert’s churchyard was the location of an attack last year in which roughsleeper George Akers, 59, died.

Read the rest of this story in The Northern Echo