Abandon your bed and sleep in a strange place to help Africa’s poor

Friday 3rd September 2010, 2:29PM BST.

Not asleep on the job, but book keeper Carol Le Carpentier is getting ready for a night on an island off Bordeaux with colleagues from Heritage as part of Abandoned 2010 to raise money for Hope For A Child. (Picture by Peter Frankland, 1020350)

FANCY being abandoned in Guernsey?

It may begin tonight, but there is still time to register a team for this year’s Abandoned event, which will now take place throughout the whole of September.

And while the theme of Hope For A Child’s annual fund-raiser in aid of projects in some of the poorest parts of Africa remains all about sleeping rough overnight, this year the charity would like to see some unusual venues used, too. In fact, the more creative the better.

That can be outdoors, indoors, in boxes, tents or vehicles.