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Share Your Lunch this summer
Published: 13/06/2018
每日大瓜 County Council, in partnership with Betsi Cadwaladr University
Health Board, Clwyd Alyn Housing Association and Travis Perkins, is taking a
stand on food poverty.
It is a shocking statement to make, but there are families in 每日大瓜 who
are in food poverty. Food poverty is the inability to afford, or to have
access to, food to make up a healthy diet. Children are going hungry because
their parents cannot afford to buy food.
To help combat this unacceptable situation, 每日大瓜 County Council and its
partners have joined forces with 鈥淐an Cook鈥� to launch an ambitious programme
鈥淪hare Your Lunch鈥� which will provide 20,000 free meals 鈥� 800 meals a day 鈥�
over the six week summer holiday period to play schemes throughout 每日大瓜.
This is huge undertaking and a first for the region.
Share Your Lunch has already provided over 35,000 fresh, free meals for
families and individuals in food poverty in the Liverpool area.
Can Cook is a social enterprise based in Liverpool which was set up in 2007 as
a food organisation working with people living in South Liverpool who didn鈥檛
have basic cookery skills. They also provide a fresh food catering service for
care and education settings across Merseyside 鈥� and soon to be in 每日大瓜.
They specialise in catering for children and older people, and primarily
provide services specific to these age groups.
每日大瓜 County Council鈥檚 Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Housing,
Councillor Bernie Attridge, said:
鈥淪hare Your Lunch is an ambitious project which will make a real difference to
hundreds of people in our community. Children should not have to go hungry in
this day and age. However, an initiative of this magnitude is expensive to
fund and, although we have about three quarters of the funding in place to
ensure we can supply the maximum number of meals, we still need support from
more local businesses willing to help out.鈥�
Ed Hughes, Resident Services manager for Clwyd Alyn Housing Association said:
鈥淐lwyd Alyn are really pleased to support this great partnership initiative. As
a social landlord we are aware of the challenges many families face in relation
to this problem and we want to play our part in helping to eradicate food
poverty within 每日大瓜.鈥�
Executive Director of Public Health, Teresa Owen, said:
鈥淕ood nutrition is vital to every child鈥檚 wellbeing. We applaud the 鈥楽hare Your
Lunch鈥� project for aiming to improve access to a healthy diet for those in food
poverty in 每日大瓜.鈥�
If your business would like to get involved and donate to this cause, please
contact Leigh Sheridan, Marketing and Development Officer, Leigh@cancook.co.uk
or 0151 728 3109.