Last November, as food prices rose and a cold winter loomed, businesses joined school leaders and NGOs to implore the Government to safeguard the health, wellbeing and futures of the nation’s children through a targeted investment with exponential returns: the extension of free school meals support to all children living in poverty.
Businesses serving customers at the frontlines of the cost of living crisis saw a need to take urgent action on behalf of the children and families we serve.
Extending free school meal support is much more than an emergency measure in difficult times. It’s an investment in the potential of every single child and their futures.
