Aviva Community Fund provided £658 of match funding
Food Hubs in School, vulnerable children supported
London, England, United Kingdom
Aim
To support children of families most affected by the pandemic with food and educational support, to help them achieve their future potential
We have had to react quickly to the changing needs of our community and alongside our partners both locally and nationally, we have focused our energies on the supply of food packs to vulnerable families and education support to children and families receiving free school meals. The impact of the pandemic on our organisation has been dramatic, but we have managed to support 350 + families per week since the Covid outbreak and have supplied the equivalent of over 52,000 meals so far from March 2020, we are hoping that over the next 3-6 months we can sustain this level of support to families.
Because Tower Hamlets is one of the poorest boroughs in London and in our ward Poplar 67% of the community is from a BAME background and has been disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. Our families and children were already at the bottom of most national measurements of deprivation, with chronic health and employment issues, so the pandemic has hit us harder than most. The majority of working adults in our community were employed in service industries or on zero hour contracts and because of redundancies the number of children and families facing food poverty & education disadvantage as grown immensely.
Over the next 3-6 months more children will need our support just to sustain their education options and the strain on families home life and financial stability have been immeasurably affected by the Covid pandemic
This project successfully funded on 23rd March 2021