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Places to donate to because our government don’t think it’s important to feed children and help lift people out of the poverty they’ve put them in in the first place (y’know, those 4 million children in households below the poverty line in the UK):
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First Days Children’s Charity @Firstdays_ - helping make sure Children have the essentials they need for life and school when parents may be in financial crisis or fall below the poverty line
Feeding Britain @Feeding_Britain - eliminating uk hunger and the root causes of it
Fare Share @FareShareUK - redistributing surplus food to food charities across the UK
The Felix Project UK @felixprojectuk - redistributing surplus food to vulnerable people free of charge (and are working with charities and schools to help end child food poverty)
Magic Breakfast - providing healthy school breakfasts to children in disadvantaged areas of the uk https://www.magicbreakfast.com
The Childhood Trust - helping to alleviate child poverty in London (they’re especially focusing on projects which are tackling the increased levels of poverty, hunger, abuse, and neglect during Covid-19) https://www.childhoodtrust.org.uk
Child Poverty Action Group @CPAGUK - working you understand what causes 1 in 4 children to grow up in poverty in the UK and how to eradicate it for good
The Children’s Society - “The number of children in poverty is set to reach five million this year. This means young people around you are going to school hungry, getting bullied for wearing an old uniform, or missing out on activities with friends” https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/ending-child-poverty
End Child Poverty @EndChildPoverty - aiming for a society free of child poverty in the UK. Their website has a fantastic easy to use page to find and email your local MP about their child poverty plan: https://act.cpag.org.uk/page/69085/action/1
Gingerbread @Gingerbread - working specifically with single parent families to help give them the tools and skills to gain employment as children in single parent households are twice as likely to experience poverty
The Trussell Trust @TrussellTrust - not specifically for child hunger or poverty, but working tirelessly to support the hungry in the UK
