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...]
