Nescafé/Shelter plan ‘dance for charity’ night

Homeless charity Shelter and Nescafé have teamed up to raise £100,000 by offering clubbers a nationwide night of dancing.

Homeless charity Shelter and Nescafé have teamed up to raise &£100,000 by offering clubbers a nationwide night of dancing.

Stay Up for Shelter has been organised under the banner of the Nescafé Street Solutions partnership, created when Nescafé and Shelter teamed up last April with the aim of reducing street homelessness by two-thirds in two years.

The dance event, also supported by clubland magazine Ministry, will see up to 20 UK clubs open their doors on February 24 and donate profits to Shelter.

Ministry editor Scott Manson and reporter Disco Davis, along with Atomic Events organiser Sebastian Orr – who is helping to run the event – will visit some of the clubs on the night to promote the event.

Shelter is one of four charities Nescafé supports under its Nescafé Getting Together to Help initiative.

The two-year initiative was launched by Nescafé in 1999 during its 60th UK anniversary. As part of the scheme, &£1m was shared between Shelter, Kids’ Clubs Network, Macmillan Cancer Relief and the British Red Cross. Previously the company supported the Macmillan Cancer Relief with coffee mornings over a seven-year period.

The Nescafé Street Solutions partnership has already launched Wise Up, a housing guide for young people, and Sign Up, encouraging people to hold their own fundraising events. Shelter last year worked with more than 160,000 homeless or poorly-housed people in England.