The Inquiry is trying to build a comprehensive picture of what children’s food poverty looks like in the UK and is looking to hear from anyone – children, young people or adults – who has experienced or witnessed children’s food insecurity in any form. If you know children who struggle to access enough food or nutritious diets, share your story with the Inquiry portal.
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Kitchen Social
Kitchen Social brings together community groups, boroughs, businesses, foundations, charities and individuals to ensure the city’s young people do not go hungry or feel alone over the school holidays. They are aiming to set up 330 hubs by end of 2020 and have set about fundraising to support projects. They are also offering free training to London Projects who sign up to be a hub.
Beyond the Food Bank
Beyond the Food Bank 2018 is the fourth edition of London’s comprehensive food poverty profile. Find out which boroughs are taking significant action to ensure children have access to food 365 days a year.
Make Lunch
During school holidays, Make Lunch run Lunch Kitchens through their network of churches & community groups across the UK to provide free, healthy, cooked food for pupils who usually receive free school meals. Run by volunteers, the kitchens have served over 50,000 meals across England, Scotland & Wales since 2011.
Filling The Holiday Gap
The All Party Parlimentary Group on School Food has put together this simple 10 step guide on setting up holiday clubs. The framework's purpose is to help organisations develop programmes that deliver food and enrichment activities during school holidays to address the holiday hunger gap.
Food Standards Agency
The Food Standards Agency give practical catering advice for charity and community groups providing food in a village hall or other community setting. Guidance will help charity and community food providers comply with the requirement to serve safe food. It provides specific advice on the law, good hygiene advice and advice about allergens.
Children's Health Fund
The Children's Health Fund believe that no child should go hungry, and recognise that for some children during the school holidays there is a vital food provision gap that needs filling. The board approves the allocation of grants to programmes and schemes aimed at improving children’s health and food education.
Feeding Britain
Feeding Britain believes that hunger has no place in 21st century Britain, and is working with partners as diverse as food banks and local community food organisations, politicians and companies, to make sure it becomes a thing of the past. Feeding Britain is determined that this year should be the last in which children in this country go hungry during the school holidays. Read the latest report here.
FareShare
FareShare save good food destined for the bin and send it to charities and community groups who transform it into nutritious meals for vulnerable people. From breakfast clubs for disadvantaged children to community cafes, these much needed meals make a real difference during the school holidays.
Childhood Trust
The Childhood Trust is a fundraising and grant making charity. The trust works with grass roots charities to help alleviate the impact of child poverty in London. This includes breakfast clubs and the provision of meals outside the school term, helping to address the issue of hunger and social isolation. Watch this film to find out why.
Magic Breakfast 365
The Magic Breakfast 365 scheme is being piloted in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets whereby children can come to a local school to enjoy a healthy breakfast, learn cookery skills, play games, have some exercise and take home the food they have made for lunch.
The Akshaya Patra Foundation UK
The Akshaya Patra Foundation runs a Beat the Hunger Programme in the UK, which focuses on providing food for rough sleepers and school children vulnerable to food insecurity over the school holidays. They address holiday hunger by tying up with holiday clubs to provide nutritionally balanced, freshly cooked meals for children during Christmas, Easter and the summer breaks.