FareShare launches nationwide campaign to fight hunger among schoolchildren over summer holiday

FareShare has launched ActiveAte, a nationwide holiday hunger campaign providing meals for children at risk of food poverty this summer. One in four UK children now live in poverty, of which three million are at risk of going hungry over the school holidays (DCMS and Child Poverty Action Group 2016). With the safety net of free school meals no longer in place, the holidays often intensify poverty among low income families. These families have told FareShare that additional costs for childcare and activities, as well as good food, over school…

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