Financial services and IT recruitment company Bright Purple will be continuing their efforts to give back to the community by taking part in this year's Byte Night charity event in Edinburgh on October 2nd.

 

Byte Night is an annual charity event started by a group of IT professionals over 11 years ago, with the aim of raising money for UK homeless children's charity Action for Children.

 

Each year over 500 people from the IT and business community give up their beds for one night to sleep rough outdoors in order to experience just a glimpse of what it might be like to be homeless. The money they raise by doing so helps Action for Children tackle the root causes of youth homelessness and helps thousands of young people, sleeping rough on our cities streets, get off of the streets and into secure accomodation with education and training opportunities.

 

 

Speaking about the event, Bright Purple managing director Nick Price told us "We appreciate that not everyone has kids of their own, but we all know someone with kids, many of us have brothers and sisters and of course, we were all children once upon a time! This is a tough time for charities, the world is in economic slowdown and people are being told to keep the purse strings tight, but kid’s are the future of our country and hopefully we all can spare £10 and maybe many of us can spare a little more". 

Nick went on to describe Bright Purple's involvement "Bright Purple have committed to helping this charity in 2009, and 5 of our company's team - Myself, Dee, Mike, Claire and Ryan, who make up the "Bright Purple Noses", will sleep rough in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh on the evening of October 2nd."

"For us it’s one night where we give up our warm beds, our plasma TV’s, and hey, some of us might even have to do without a good night kiss from the kids, but it’s got to be worth such a small sacrifice to help some less fortunate kids off the streets and back in to a warm bed!"