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.

a sleep pod on the snow

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.

a sleep pod on the snow

Distribution

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:

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*

Outdoor temp
0 ºC
Inside Pod
-16 ºC
"Next to body" temp
-16 ºC

*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:

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Sleep Pods distributed since our founding

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Partner organisations across the UK and Europe

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The cost to produce one Sleep Pod

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Team-building events hosted for supporters

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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

Each donation enables us to continue building Sleep Pods to keep refugees and rough sleepers warm and dry. Every contribution counts, so please give generously.
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Corporate
Events

Corporate Events

Sleep Pod put on build workshops for companies as part of your CSR program.
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Distribution partners

Distribution partners

We rely on partnering with homeless charities and organisations who can use their experience and expertise in order to distribute Sleep Pods to people in need in their local area.
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Volunteer
with us

Volunteer with us

Sleep Pod can only exist through the power of people and the generosity of those offering their time.
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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.

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Contact

For any inquiries please email or use our contact-form.

For requests about corporate events please get in touch here.

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Every winter, people across the UK face freezing nights without shelter.

You can change that.

Just £30 provides a life-saving Sleep Pod