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Feeding Bristol launch fundraiser to ensure no child goes hungry this summer
Hoping to give children in less advantaged situations the chance to learn, play and eat healthily over the summer holidays, one local charity has launched a fundraising campaign.
Feeding Bristol has launched a Healthy Holidays fundraiser, aiming to raise £20,000 to help the charity support the city’s children.
14,250 children in the city are currently eligible for free school meals, but will only receive a supermarket voucher throughout the summer holidays, which can leave many families finding it difficult to provide healthy, balanced meals.
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Following the success of its 2019 Healthy Holidays campaign, Feeding Bristol will be partnering with grassroots organisations that work directly with less advantaged children and families to provide more access to a healthy lifestyle over the summer months.
The Healthy Holidays campaign will help children across the city. Photo: Duchess Media
Donations made to the charity’s fundraiser will help the organisation offer a range of provision and activities for children in need, such as providing food resources in areas of the city with high deprivation rates, providing additional support through educational information and teaching families how to cook with their children.
Working with grassroots partner organisations, Feeding Bristol will help parents feed their children nutritious meals in conjunction with the free school meals voucher programmes, as well as providing resources on food, activity and wellbeing education.
“Many, many children are going to have a really tough time these summer holidays,” says Feeding Bristol’s director, Maurice Di Rosso.
“Due to social distancing, activities that we used to rely on as a platform for feeding, providing a safe space, and giving children the opportunity to have a fun time, just won’t be able to operate as much as in the past.
“These summer holidays, it’s our responsibility as a city to provide as many positive opportunities as possible for these children who deserve even more.”
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2019’s Healthy Holidays campaign saw almost 70 different community organisations come together, delivering 53,000 meals to more than 5,000 children in Bristol.
2020’s programme offers even more provision for children and families in the city, and comes after the recent announcement that the South West will not be receiving any Government support to run holiday programmes.
Feeding Bristol now needs to raise between £20,000 and £30,000 to deliver its holiday programme and support the community groups who are working with these children and families.
Main photo: Duchess Media
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