The Iron Man Survival Blankets project

for the last 4 years i have been turning empty crisp packets into insulated sleeping bag liners for rough sleepers.

I am Miley Porritt, 23, of Frome, Somerset, and I have two loves - ironing and eating crisps.

lockdown in 2020 I set up my own ironing business so now I can put the two things together and do some good

It takes about 150 packets to make one liner and they are sealed together using the heat from an iron.

The foil in the packet would reflect a person's body heat back on to them to help keep them warm.

I spent five years rough sleeping and living in a YMCA hostel before getting his own flat in October 2020.

""When you're on the street staying warm and dry is really hard so these liners will make a difference and I want to give something back to the people who helped me," i said to bbc.

we are currently fundraising towards being able to run this project for the 5th year running.

we have made over 5000 blankets, saved over 100 thousand blankets from landfill, and saved countless meters of clear waste plastic from landfill!

please come and join the team :)