INTREPID students from Monmouth Comprehensive will be among those joining a 24-hour sleep out at Monnow Bridge next month to raise funds and awareness.

The ‘There’s No Place Like Home’ event on Thursday, February 29, to Friday, March 1, will be aiming to turn the spotlight on ‘hidden homelessness, and ecomonic and social poverty’ and is being organised by the Churches in Monmouth Housing Group and Reach Out.

Spokesperson Gill Waters said: “Let’s give the invisible people a voice!

“There will be music, local sixth formers sleeping out with us, children’s activities, petitions, sign up forms for volunteers, sponsorship and information.

“We are aiming to ‘comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable’ to make a real change in the lives of people who are struggling to survive – transforming the current ‘ring of confusion’ to a ‘ring of compassion’.

“Or given that it is Leap Year’s day – a proposal to build an engagement ring demonstrating community care and love for all.”

The 24-hour event is due to start at 10am on February 29, with music from Celtic Collectors including an alternative ‘Streets of Monmouth’ and ‘Another Day For You and Me in Paradise’.

More details will be released in the next few days, but for more information and to get involved email [email protected]