Central Co-op has marked Children’s Mental Health Week with an extension of its partnership with Magic Breakfast that promotes learning by providing children and young people at risk of hunger with breakfast. The importance of a child's formative years continues to be an area of focus for charities and wider society, being most recently highlighted by Catherine, Princess of Wales who launched her Shaping Us campaign earlier this month, aimed at raising awareness of public understanding of the first five years of a child’s life.
Magic Breakfast is a charity who say they deliver free breakfasts for up to 200,000 children facing hunger every day. It aims to help children learn and thrive by partnering with schools who will open a little early each morning to offer students a free, nutritious 'magic breakfast' and ensure they get the best start to the day.
There are currently six schools in the scheme, here is the list:
