Help for homeless people
Mark Knopfler is supporting Streets of London’s Starry Night campaign, which is raising vital funds to help homeless people off the streets.
Homelessness in London is at a record high, with nearly 12,000 people sleeping rough in the UK’s capital last year, so help for homeless people is needed more than ever.
By entering this special prize draw, you will have a chance to win a brilliant prize while helping to raise vital funds to support homeless people.
Seven prize draws you can enter!
Seven artists are generously supporting Streets of London (registered charity 1155242) by providing special prizes for this Starry Night fundraising campaign.
Through these prize draws and the upcoming Streets of London's Starry Night fundraising concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 13th December, the artists and the charity aim to raise as much as possible to help people experiencing homelessness.
You can enter any or all of the following prize draws:
- Win Coldplay Wembley tickets and a signed drum skin!
- Win three signed box sets from Mark Knopfler!
- Win Keane signed vinyl, a signed drum head, a book, and a merch bundle!
- Meet Bastille's Dan Smith and win tickets for Streets of London's Starry Night!
- Meet Birdy and win tickets for Streets of London's Starry Night!
- Meet Freya Ridings and win tickets for Streets of London's Starry Night!
- Meet Jake Bugg and win tickets for Streets of London's Starry Night!
(Photo credit: Murdo McLeod)
What's the prize?
Mark Knopfler is an acclaimed singer-songwriter, guitarist, record producer, and film score composer. He is best known as the lead singer, lead guitarist and songwriter of internationally celebrated rock band, Dire Straits.
Mark has donated a triple box set prize package, which spans his 10 solo studio albums; from Golden Heart (1996), through to his most recent release, One Deep River (2024). Each box set will be signed by Mark Knopfler.
This special prize draw package includes:
Mark Knopfler - The Studio Albums 1996-2007
- Golden Heart
- Sailing To Philadelphia
- The Ragpicker’s Dream
- Shangri-La
- Kill To Get Crimson
- Gravy Train: The B-Sides 1996-2007
- Album cover 12” art cards
Mark Knopfler - The Studio Albums 2009-2018
- Get Lucky
- Privateering
- Tracker
- Down The Road Wherever
- Back In The Day: The Bonus Tracks 2009-2018
- Album cover 12” art cards
One Deep River
- 2LP
- 1LP - box exclusive bonus tracks
- 2CD (album + bonus track disc)
- Enamel badge
- Plectrum tin and 3 x plectrums
- Guitar print
* The winner has the choice of either LP or CD Studio Albums box sets
How do I enter this prize draw?
To be in with a chance of winning this special prize, enter today! Entry into the prize draw costs £5 for one entry. The more entries you choose, the greater your chances of winning, and you can enter as many times as you like.
Entries can be purchased between Friday, 8th November, and Sunday, 24th November 2024. The winner will be notified on Monday, 25th November, via email.
- Choose how many entries you would like and click 'Enter'—the more you choose, the higher your chances of winning!
- There are a number of different entry levels available. The more you donate, the cheaper the cost per entry. For example, if you donate £20, you will receive 6 entries rather than 4.
- You can also enter the prize draw without donating by post. See terms and conditions below for details.
- By donating and entering the prize draw, you agree to the terms and conditions.
About Streets of London
Streets of London (registered charity number 1155242) funds specialist support for people who are homeless in London and raises awareness about the issue. We make grants each year to fund homelessness projects across the capital.
Using our knowledge of the sector, we target funding to projects where we know the money will make a real difference, so that homeless people have the support they need to get back on their feet and leave homelessness behind for good.
Since 2015, Streets of London has provided more than £1 million in vital funding to the homeless sector in London, supporting some fantastic projects that offer life-changing assistance to people experiencing homelessness.
To learn more about the projects the charity supports, visit Streets of London’s website.
How the money will help
All funds raised from this prize draw will support Streets of London’s work tackling homelessness in the capital, funding vital immediate help for homeless people as well as longer-term support so that people can escape the streets for good.
We fund a wide variety of projects each year (typically with a grant of £15,000 per project) that provide a range of support to homeless people, including:
- Day centres that meet people's immediate needs, such as food, hot showers, laundry, medical facilities, and emergency night shelter for vulnerable sleepers.
- Housing advice and support to help people find emergency accommodation and secure longer-term housing.
- Projects that help people build their employability skills and self-confidence, along with assistance in looking for jobs.
- Mental and physical healthcare and support for complex needs: eg mental health support, support for alcohol addiction, substance use
- Projects that provide ongoing support to people once they’re in a place of their own and help develop independent living skills.
One of the projects the charity has helped to fund is a catering skills course for people experiencing homelessness:
- The programme gives homeless people the opportunity to develop the skills they need to begin a career in catering.
- Work can often be the securest route out of homelessness. A job can provide someone not only with money to live on but also with meaningful occupation, a restored sense of self-esteem, belonging, and a social network.
- Comprising a mix of practical cookery classes, barista training, and life skills, the aim of the course is to help people get into paid employment. Graduates can receive recognised qualifications.
- All graduates automatically qualify for a three-week paid work placement with a local restaurant, boosting their chances of successfully landing a job.
Every £15,000 raised as a result of the Starry Night prize draw will allow Streets of London to provide vital funding to another amazing project like this, which provides an important life-line to the people it helps.
Thank you for your support.
The impact of your support
With the right support, people who have experienced homelessness can turn their lives around. It can have a huge impact on someone's life.
Will, who has benefited from one of the projects supported by the charity, has this to say about how things have changed for him:
"The difference is unbelievable, you know, when I went in there, I didn't want to live. If I had the guts to kill myself, I would have... When I went out of there, I felt confident about my life, hopeful about my life. Yeah. it's changed my life. Saved my life, 100%".
Terms and Conditions
- Entrants must be over 18 years of age (parents can help here).
- Open to anyone (over the age of 18) worldwide, except employees of the Promoters, their immediate families, or anyone professionally connected with the draw.
- Entries will be accepted between 10:00 am (BST) on Friday, 8th November 2024, and 11:59 pm (BST) on Sunday, 24th November 2024.
- Entrants may enter the prize draw as many times as they like. Multiple entries will create a greater chance of winning. To enter, select the number of entries you would like to buy.
- To enter the draw without purchase, please send a postcard with the prize draw name, your name, address, email address, and contact telephone number to: Mark Knopfler Starry Night Prize Draw, ℅ Streets of London, East Lodge, Farleigh Hungerford, Bath, BA2 7RW, UK. Entries must be sent on a postcard or on/within an envelope. Entries received on anything other than a postcard or in/on an envelope will not be accepted. In the case of multiple entries received in a single envelope or on multiple postcards, only one entry will be entered into the promotion. Entries sent by post must be received by the closing date and time for receipt of entries. Postal entries without correct and sufficient postage paid will be invalid and will not be entered. Personal and hand deliveries will not be accepted.
- Following the closing date, the winner will be chosen at random and contacted on Monday, 25th November 2024. They will be contacted by email about how to claim their prize. If the winner does not respond within three days of the initial email being sent, the next winner will be chosen at random and emailed. Entrants are advised to check their spam folder to avoid missing notification.
- There is no cash alternative available for the prizes offered.
- Physical prizes (i.e., items other than 'experience' prizes) will be shipped to the winner within six weeks of the winner notifying the Promoter by email that they accept the prize and, at the same time, providing a valid postal address and telephone number.
- By entering this draw, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by the Promoter only for the purposes of the administration of this draw and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.
- The Promoter will keep entrants' personal details for a reasonable time so that it can communicate with the winners and send any prize that an entrant has won, to verify that these rules have been complied with, and for accounting purposes.
- The Promoter may disqualify any entrant whose entry does not comply with these terms and conditions (in the Promoter's sole opinion) or who, in the Promoter's sole determination, has acted in a manner that is fraudulent, dishonest, or unjust to other entrants, including, without limitation, tampering with the operation of the prize draw, manipulating or rigging entries, hacking, deceiving, cheating, or by harassing or threatening other entrants or a representative of the Promoter.
- The Promoter is Streets of London (registered charity number 1155242), at East Lodge, Farleigh Hungerford, Bath, BA2 7RW, UK.
- These terms and conditions are governed by English law, and the courts of England will have exclusive jurisdiction.
- By entering into this draw, each entrant consents to these terms and conditions.