ActiveOutdoorsCamping‘The Boy in the Tent’ comes inside after camping for three yearsTeenager finishes epic campout at a festival after raising a fortune for charityWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
ActiveOutdoorsCamping‘The Boy in the Tent’ comes inside after camping for three yearsTeenager finishes epic campout at a festival after raising a fortune for charityWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Teenager finishes epic campout at a festival after raising a fortune for charity
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
A teenage boy in Braunton, Devon, who began sleeping in a tent to raise money for a local charity three years ago, this weekend finally decided to up sticks and come inside.Max Woosey, who has become known as ‘the Boy in the Tent’ will tonight sleep in a real bed and under a rigid roof for the first time since 29th March 2020.
Max started his colossal camp out after neighbour and family friend, Rick Abbott, who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer, gifted him his tent and told the then 13 year old to use it to have an adventure. Since then, Max has gone through 26 tents, endured storms, sub-zero temperatures, heatwaves, a bout of Covid and an encounter with former PM Boris Johnson. And, after initially setting out to raise £50, he has generated over £650,000 for theNorth Devon Hospice, which looked after Rick until he passed away.
Max now, three years after beginning his epic campout(Image credit: Max Woosey)
Max now, three years after beginning his epic campout
Max now, three years after beginning his epic campout
(Image credit: Max Woosey)
“I love camping, it’s one of my favourite things and I’m definitely going to miss it,” he toldTheGuardian. For his final night under canvas (for now), Max chose to attend aboutique festivalat the South West’s sanctuary for the arts at Broomhill Estate in Devon, just 15 minutes from his house and garden, where the adventure began.
“My friend Rick was absolutely amazing,” Max explained, when talking to ITV’sGood Morning Britainabout why he started - and continued - camping out. “He loved the outdoors, he loved sports and we got along really well.
“He gave me the tent and said: ‘Max, I want you to have an adventure in it.’ And I said: ‘I promise you I will.’ And, sadly, he died just before Covid of cancer. And the North Devon hospice just took brilliant care of him and I wanted to say thank you in the biggest way I could. So I started sleeping outside and I tried to raise as much money as I could for them.”
Stephen Roberts, chief executive of the North Devon hospice, toldthe BBC: “Max has directly funded 15 nurses for a whole year. The funds he raised for North Devon hospice in this time have made a real difference to the patients and families we support."
You can still contribute to Max’s incredible campaign to raise money for the hospice, via hisJust Giving page.
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(Image credit: Max Woosey)
(Image credit: Max Woosey)
Max has won support and applause from many well-known people during his campout, which saw him sleep on the pitch at Twickenham, in London Zoo and in the garden of Number 10 Downing Street.
The inspirational teen has given a Ted Talk, set a Guinness World Record (for raising money through camping) and been awarded a British Empire Medal, plus Pride of Britain, Spirit of Adventure and Bear Grylls Chief Scout Unsung Hero awards.
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