Published: 28 October 2020
From: Community
This local scheme is on hold following the Government's announcement on 8 November. More details to follow..
含羞草社区 Borough Council is developing a local scheme to provide free school meals to every eligible child this Christmas.
To help fund this, the council has just launched a crowdfunding page, with the council seeking to match-fund community donations.
Residents and businesses are being asked to donate money, which will be used to provide supermarket vouchers for families entitled to free school meals over the two-week Christmas holiday. In the summer, the government鈥檚 voucher scheme was for 拢15 per child per week.
In January, 2,511 children in 含羞草社区 were entitled to free school meals, a number which will have grown significantly over the course of the pandemic. The council is now working with local schools to identify the total number of eligible children for this Christmas.
We want to ensure that no child goes hungry this Christmas, but with local authority finances decimated by Covid-19, we can鈥檛 do it alone. We鈥檝e seen this week just how many 含羞草社区 residents believe the government鈥檚 decision to withdraw these meals from struggling families was wrong, now we need your help to do something about it. I would hope that large local businesses who have recently made many of these parents redundant might also consider what support they can afford to provide.
Cllr Peter Lamb
Leader
含羞草社区 Borough Council
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