Big Tramp 2015 - All Night Charity Walk

Join us for an all-night tramp through London and raise funds for Cardboard Citizens, the UK’s leading homelessness theatre company.

Help us to stamp out homelessness

Can you tramp all night through the streets of London?

Setting off at midnight on Saturday 20th, you’ll spend a night on London’s streets, walking 8 miles through the city until dawn on Sunday.

Throughout the night, our talented members, all of whom have had experience of homelessness themselves, will show you our city in a whole new light through compelling storytelling and immersive pop-up theatre performances.

Led by the experienced walking guide Henry Eliot, allow yourself to be transported back through London’s history, reliving George Orwell’s ‘Down and Out’ woes of vagrancy; visiting the church where Charles Dicken’s famously stumbled across ‘houselessness’, and viewing the dosshouses where Welsh Super-Tramp and poet W H Davies once sought shelter from the darkest streets of London town. As the night draws on and hunger invades, we’ll be gratefully met by a Soup Kitchen in Bloomsbury, a chance to rest and recuperate for the journey ahead. The final leg of our journey will lead us to the Kennington Workhouse, where Charlie Chaplin lived as a child. Here, with breakfast and a screening of his short film The Tramp, our walk will come to an end.

In London alone, homelessness has increased by nearly a quarter in the last five years. Help us to change that.