Ex-footballer Sol Campbell is to bed down in a sleeping bag at Lord’s to raise funds for homeless charities.
The former Arsenal and England defender, a director of Fiona Barratt Interiors, is joining 250 other company bosses for a CEO sleep-out at the home of cricket in St John’s Wood on Monday.
They include Marylebone Cricket Club CEO Derek Brewer, England and Wales Cricket Board boss Tom Harrison and women’s cricket chief Clare Connor.
Homelessness charities to benefit are Depaul UK, CEO Sleepout UK, the Cardinal Hume Centre in Westminster and YMCA North London in Crouch End.
Other rough sleepers include the Clerk of the House of Lords Patrick Milner, Tory Baroness Jenkin of Kensington, Lib-Dem Baroness Grender and eight MPs including Enfield Southgate’s Conservative MP David Burrowes.
Joining them will be Coca-Cola Enterprises associate director Dominic Grime, the new Mast- haven Bank’s chief executive Jon Hall and Network Homes boss Helen Evans.
Ex-England cricketers Mike Gatting and Mike Brearley will cheer on the fund-raisers at a Lord’s reception before the CEOs’ long cold night.
It is the third CEO Sleepout UK event in London. Chairman Andy Preston hopes to beat last year’s total at the Oval of £180,000.
Up to 90,000 children sleep in temporary accommodation each night in London.
Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey said the Government should “hang its head in shame”.
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