What is a Sleep Pod?
Small Pod Big Protection
Sleep Pods offer emergency shelter to rough sleepers, keeping them warm and dry in harsh conditions. Lightweight and easy to use, they’re a simple way for frontline charities to connect with rough sleepers and deliver help and protection on the streets.
What is a Sleep Pod?
Small Pod Big Protection
Sleep Pods offer emergency shelter to rough sleepers, keeping them warm and dry in harsh conditions. Lightweight and easy to use, they’re a simple way for frontline charities to connect with rough sleepers and deliver help and protection on the streets.
What is a Sleep Pod?
Small Pod Big Protection
Sleep Pods offer emergency shelter to rough sleepers, keeping them warm and dry in harsh conditions. Lightweight and easy to use, they’re a simple way for frontline charities to connect with rough sleepers and deliver help and protection on the streets.
Our charity
What we do at Sleep Pod
The Sleep Pod is not a solution to the crisis, it’s one measure, an emergency shelter to be made available to outreach teams and charities for them to give to rough sleepers and refugees that haven’t managed to access existing services.
Demand for Sleep Pod’s grows year on year and we partner with more frontline charities in the UK and further afield. We continually look at how we build and distribute Pods to make sure the best possible equipment gets onto the streets.
Alongside this we look at all potential income streams, like delivering corporate team building events, so we can continue to give as many Pods out free as possible. We thrive on community connection and innovation within the community, but hope that one day we will no longer be needed, however until that day we will continue to support those most vulnerable in society.
The problem
A shelter from the cold
People are dying on the streets with tragic regularity. For rough sleepers in the UK and refugees in Europe, many of these deaths are a result of hypothermia and exposure to extreme weather conditions.
Sleep Pods are:
- Insulated
- Rain resistant
- Wind resistant
- Quick and easy to use
- Lightweight, easy to pack and carry
- Cost effective to make (at only £30 per Pod)
- Easy to make, made by teams of volunteers
The solution
A Sleep Pod can provide meaningful protection from the elements
When it is -16ºC outside in a short time a person's own bodyheat can raise the temperature inside the Pod to +5ºC with an average "next to body" temperature of +22ºC*
*Due to its thermal insulative materials, during tests we conducted in a controlled environment the readings suggested that.
Impact
How and where we impact
Our impact in numbers:
Sleep Pods distributed since our founding
Partner organisations across the UK and Europe
The cost to produce one Sleep Pod
Team-building events hosted for supporters
Prisons we work with. Where inmates build Sleep Pods, gaining valuable skills that can enhance their employability.
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Our story
From a grassroots idea to thousands protected
Sleep Pod started as a local project.
Since then, we’ve built and distributed over 15,000 Pods thanks to incredible volunteers, fundraisers, and partners.
Now we’re scaling up, with your help.
Looking ahead
The next chapter: a bigger, bolder impact
We’re expanding. More hubs. More events. More Pods. More distribution partners.
With your support, we can reach the most vulnerable faster than ever before.
Let’s build something that matters, together.
Get involved
How you can help
Let’s build something that matters, together.
Donate
Donate
Corporate Events
Corporate Events
Distribution partners
Distribution partners
Volunteer
with us
Volunteer with us
Corporate Events
Team Building Events That Make A Real Impact
Our corporate Sleep Pod events bring people together to do something real, building emergency shelters that go directly to people sleeping rough. It’s a chance to connect your team to a powerful cause, support your CSR goals, and have a day they’ll remember for all the right reasons.
Testimonials
Lovely words from our partners
Our World
Real Stories
Read from the people who are connected with us.

Stronger Together: 600 Sleep Pods Delivered Across the North of England
A huge community effort saw 600 Sleep Pods delivered last week

From Storms to Shelter: How a Couple Found Safety, Support, and a New Home
When a couple arrived at Cornerstone’s Bishop Auckland Homeless Hub seeking

From rough sleeping to a place to call home
One individual in Bishop Auckland has returned their Sleep Pod after

Sleep Pod’s in the Ukraine
As winter continues to bring very harsh conditions out there, we
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Contact
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For requests about corporate events please get in touch here.