Wednesday 29 October 2008

Only 2 days to go!

There are only 2 days to go now until Byte Night. Isn't it great that the British weather has decided to turn really cold as well this week! With temperatures dropping below zero over night I thought it was worth putting together a little checklist of what we need to bring on friday night.

  • Very warm clothes! One guy from here suggested to me that he was going to bring his skiing clothes and I think thats a great idea as they will keep you warm.
  • Something to keep you off the ground. As the temperatures drop the ground will be very cold so anything to keep you off it would make sense, a deck chair, foldable camp bed anything like that will do.
  • A flask with a hot drink or any other drinks that keep you warm! However please bear in mind there are no toilet facilities after midnight.
  • A hat
  • Some of those hand warmers that last for a couple of hours may come in useful.
  • Steven Willis is kindly bringing some torches.
  • Action for Children are supplying some water proof bags for your sleeping bag and some Virgin survival bags. They also have some umbrellas just in case.
  • Andrew Fisk is going to bring a camping stove to brew up just in case.
  • Chimfix are also supplying us with a wood burning stove for the night which will help to keep us warm. However Action for Children rightly pointed out that we need to ensure that no sleeping bags are too close to the fire etc.
  • You may also want to bring your own personal entertainment, ipod etc.
  • Stories - bring some ghost stories along to keep us all entertained!
  • If all else fails - a sense of humour!

A warm meal will be provided before midnight and the bar is open to buy drinks.
If your partner/children etc are coming along to support you before midnight that is fine but please let me know so that I can advise Jocelyn of numbers for catering.

I think it is also worth remembering why we are doing this and that is to raise money for Action for Children. Now is the time to put that final effort in to raise some sponsorship. This is something thats really different from the sponsored walk or run and should attract plenty of support from your friends, family, customers, suppliers, people in the pub, neighbours etc. If you have not already done so please send out an email to everyone you know and make that final push to raise some money.

We also hope to get some PR on this in the papers next week too, I am going to bring a camera and a video camera so we can get some photos on the blog and I am sure our PR company will be able to get us in the papers too. As we are the first to do this in the North East I will make sure that everyone is aware of who we are and how brave you all are!

Finally I know the temperature is dropping and you may be worried as we approach friday but remember its a maximum of 8 hours in your life that you will be perhaps a little uncomfortable for and it is one of those experiences that you will look back on with pride that you were the first to do it in the North East. Well done everyone for taking part and good luck and stay warm!

Tagish "tag on" one more


Andrew Fisk from Tagish will be joined by colleague Chris Johnson on friday at Byte Night. If you would like to sponsor Andrew or Chris please click this link http://www.justgiving.com/andrew_tagish

Tuesday 21 October 2008

Jocelyn Maxfield says "yes" to Byte Night

Our latest recruit is Jocelyn Maxfield. Jocelyn has decided to not only host the event at the Fishermans Lodge but she is also going to sleep rough with the rest of us. She said "I must be bonkers, but it is a fantastic cause so I had to join in"

Friday 17 October 2008

Harry Broome hopes to "sweep" up some sponsorship


Harry Broome of RWE is the latest recruit to Byte Night.

Claire Glynn gets some practice in!

Had a bit of practice staying up all night earlier this week!

Was flying back from Turkey on a ‘night flight’ so no sleep and quite uncomfortable - although warm, to warm if anything.

Anyway landed into Newcastle airport at 6am, taxi waiting and back home and into bed by 7am. Straight to sleep feeling really comfy and cosy in my own bed only to wake up an hour later as the drilling started …….. and continued all day!!!

Our neighbours had decided to get their drive done! Oh no!!! If only I had told them we were going away and when we’d be back!

Anyway all good practice for sleeping rough in aid of Byte Night on Halloween I thought!

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Claire

To sponsor Claire click here.

Shared Interest show more interest


Andy Jones from Shared Interest is joining Steven Willis in the sleep out planned for this halloween. Welcome on board Andy.
To sponsor Andy or Steve click here to go to their Just Giving page.

Monday 13 October 2008

Chimfix help to keep us warm

Mike Blakeley of Cramlington based Chimfix kindly offered us the use of a wood burning stove to help keep us warm on our sleep out for North East Byte Night. Chimfix the Wood Heating Company, have been a customer of ours for over a year and the offer has gone down very well with the sleepers, thanks very much Mike!

Friday 10 October 2008

Sage join in the fun!

North East software giant Sage have agreed to join our intrepid team of sleepers on Halloween. Claire Jerrard a member of the senior management team at Sage is going to brave the elements this halloween in aid of Byte Night.

To sponsor Claire click here to visit her Just Giving page.

Steven Willis of Shared Interest joins in

Steven Willis has agreed to join us for Byte Night at the Fishermans Lodge in Jesmond Dene this halloween. Steven is from Shared Interest.

Thursday 9 October 2008

Aaron Matheson from Increase Computers increases our number

Aaron Matheson from Increase Computers in Gateshead has agreed to join us in our efforts to raise cash for Action for Children on the North East Byte Night sleep out on halloween.

To sponsor Aaron click here