BAE Systems donating £100,000 to support Magic Breakfast to provide healthy school breakfasts to children across the UK who can arrive at school too hungry to learn.
Magic Breakfast’s research shows that when a child has a breakfast, they have more energy and can concentrate better in the classroom. The money from BAE Systems will help to provide the equivalent of over 350,000 breakfasts, ensuring that more than 1,800 children get a nutritional start to the school day for a whole year.
Director of Fundraising and Development at Magic Breakfast, Emily Wilkie, said: “Sadly the scale of food insecurity is now soaring and there are more than four million children at risk of arriving to school hungry, providing a significant barrier to their education. We know a hungry child cannot concentrate, putting them at risk of missing vital hours of morning learning.
