Standing up for Swansea East
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...]
