Over the evening of the 12th October 2018 thousands of Beavers, Cubs, Scouts and Explorers held a sponsored sleep out for Porchlight. It gave those involved a better understanding about what people who are homeless have to go through every day.

Money raised by Kent Scouts Big Cardboard Sleep Out will help make a difference to the help Porchlight support the homeless and vulnerable.

Find out more about Porchlight on their website and follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

The Kent Scouts Media Team visited many of the Sleep Outs.

Below are stories and pictures that have been send in to us from round the County.

6th Ramsgate Sea Scouts & Cubs

Ashford & Romney Marsh

Sittingbourne Milton and District

1st Birchington Air Scouts/Spitfire Explorers

11th Broadstairs, Thanet District

3 Scouts, 1 Young Leader and 3 Adults slept overnight at 11th Broadstairs and raised £200 on the night for Porchlight.

1st St Lawrence Scout Group & 17th Ramsgate Scout Group

The guests that attended were the Mayor and Mayoress of Ramsgate (Cllr Trevor Shonk & Mandy Shonk), Deputy Lieutenant of Kent (Clive Stevens) and Member of Parliament for South Thanet (Craig Mackinlay) - Nirav Patel

6th Tonbridge Hadlow

Maidstone Methodists

11 scouts, 3 leaders and lots of cardboard.

Tunbridge Wells

Phoenix ESSU (Thanet)

Tonight we held a debate ‘do homeless people have a choice?’ before our Sleepout. We decided £2 would be our budget to try to buy a day of food that we could eat with no kitchen or stove. Some good efforts there!

Weald District

Taken in and outside Goudhurst Church.