Our Woolly Hat Poet needs you to put him up for the night - how you can help

By Sue Wilkinson
Published 19th Apr 2019, 09:07 BST
Updated 19th Apr 2019, 10:19 BST
Woolly Hat Poet Benjamin GuilfoyleWoolly Hat Poet Benjamin Guilfoyle
Woolly Hat Poet Benjamin Guilfoyle
Halifax-born Benjamin Guilfoyle will strap on his walking boots for an epic 125-mile hike  from Lancaster to Brighouse in Yorkshire for his first big poetry tour.

But audiences on the 12-date tour are in for a shock - because he will make an on-stage appeal every performance for one of them to give him a bed for the night.

Benjamin is raining money for two charities - the Lancaster and District Homeless Action Service and the Lancaster Children’s Library - with every penny from ticket sales and donations while on the tour donated to the charities.

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To raise awareness of the issue of homelessness, the poet will have nowhere to stay each night of his tour - and will be sleeping rough unless someone in the audience steps forward and offers him a bed for the night.