Carolyn Harris MP for Swansea East
Standing up for Swansea East
We’ve just finished our penultimate week of kids lunch clubs and it’s been another very busy week. You’ll know from my last update that we’ve had lots of visitors this week from the sporting world and today I was delighted to welcome Jeremy Corbyn MP, the Leader of the Labour Party, to join us today. Jeremy rolled up his sleeves, got stuck in and met some of the brilliant kids we’ve been feeding … [Read more...]
After marking our busiest period ever since we started the lunch clubs, we kicked off this week’s clubs in style with a visit from former Wales international rugby player, Ian Gough, Club Ambassador and Youth Team Coast at Swansea City FC, Lee Trundle, and Swansea City winger, Wayne Routledge. I’d like to say a huge thank you to the guys for coming down to support our work – the kids were over the … [Read more...]
Just a short update from me this week because, as many constituents will know, I’ve been devoting much of my time over the summer months to our Kid’s Lunch Clubs. This week again, I’ve been at our lunch clubs HQ at the Boss Brewery every morning making sandwiches for our packed lunches alongside our team of fantastic volunteers. I’ve been keeping a regular diary about our progress with this year’s … [Read more...]
It’s official: this week has been our busiest set of kid’s lunch clubs ever, with a staggering 2,200 hot and cold meals being distributed across Swansea East. On the one hand, it’s great that we’ve been able to reach out to more kids than ever before to ensure they don’t go without. On the other hand, this record is slightly bittersweet given it highlights just what a big problem holiday hunger … [Read more...]
It might be a very rainy Wednesday across South Wales but that hasn’t stopped our team of amazing volunteers from getting packed lunches and hot meals to kids right across Swansea East. Our sandwich team have been working really hard this morning at HQ to prepare today’s packed lunches. This week alone, we’re supplying around 1,100 packed lunches to clubs and community groups across the … [Read more...]
We’ve just served the last dinner of this week’s of Kids Lunch Clubs, and once again I’m staggered by the sheer number of meals we’ve been able to serve this week. Between all of our lunch clubs, and the packed lunch deliveries we’ve been making, we’ve served a whopping 1,210 meals! Around two thirds of these were hot meals served at our lunch clubs which is fantastic. Once again, I’m in awe at … [Read more...]
I’m mid way through another week of our summer lunch clubs, alongside our growing team of amazing volunteers. I have been simply blown away this year by the sheer number of people and organisations, both large and small, who have gone above and beyond to help us. This week, Princes Gate became the latest company to get behind our work, and have kindly agreed to donate water bottles to all of the … [Read more...]
Well, it’s been fantastic this week to get away from Westminster and spend much more time in the constituency as the Parliamentary recess begins. As many constituents will know, over the past few years I’ve organised a series of summer lunch clubs to prevent kids who would otherwise have relied on free school meals from going hungry over the school holidays. We’ve got off to a great start this … [Read more...]
Many constituents across Swansea East will be aware that over the last few years I’ve organised a series of summer lunch clubs to help ensure kids living in our communities don’t go hungry during the school holidays. Many children who rely on free school meals during term-time don’t have this to fall back on during the long 6-week summer holiday. Having lunch may not seem like something many … [Read more...]
The last week in Parliament before the summer recess will live long in the memory for many reasons. Boris Johnson’s unseemly installation as our new Prime Minister, full of bluster and rhetoric but painfully short on vision and compassion, is bad news for communities here in Swansea East and across all of Wales. Welsh Labour’s First Minister Mark Drakeford was quite right to sound the alarm bells, … [Read more...]
