Tranmere Rovers’ ‘Kip On The Essar Kop’ raises over £10,000 for homeless charities

Over 50 people gave up their Friday night last week to raise very important money and awareness for several local charities across the Wirral.

Tranmere Rovers In The Community’s ‘Kip On The Essar Kop’ is an event where participants sleep outdoors over night on the Essar Kop stand.

The percentage of people sleeping rough throughout the country has risen by 169% and given that the North West region has the biggest impact, it is definitely a cause for concern of the local area.

The participants arrived from 5pm at Prenton Park and that was where they stayed until 6am the following morning, some of who, travelled to Morecambe a few hours later for Tranmere Rovers’ game at 3pm.

Some brought sleeping bags, others brought cardboard boxes to help shelter themselves from a bitterly cold night. Volunteers kindly stayed on hand to give soup and hot drinks to everyone, in order to keep body heat at a safe temperature.

So far, over £10,000 has been raised by sponsors, businesses and participants and Tranmere Rovers would like to wholeheartedly thank everyone who has contributed in any way, either monetary or with their time, for making this event so worthwhile and successful.

Rovers have worked closely with Wirral Ark in order for Kip on the Essar Kop to take place and their Chief Executive Aydin Djemal told Wirral View: “Kip on the Kop came about, originally when we were doing a bit of work with Tranmere.

“We came up with the idea of a sleep out and having a kip somewhere. Then fantastically, this idea of Kip on the Kop came about.

“The money that has been raised will be split across homeless charities all over the Wirral.”

To find out more about Tranmere Rovers’ work in the local community and wider, please get in touch with the Community department by emailing [email protected].