A local firm is funding free breakfasts at a high school in one of Wales' wealthiest areas because pupils were turning up hungry. Endurance Vehicle Solutions stepped in to pay for free breakfasts at Monmouth Comprehensive after the school trialled the idea but couldn’t continue to fund it this term.
Headteacher Hugo Hutchison said pockets of poverty exist in all areas and a significant number of children in his school had been arriving for the day without eating . He wanted to remove the stigma by providing free breakfast for all.
A trial last term, funded with a small amount of money from the local education authority and the school, was so successful that 1,000 pupils were eating the free breakfasts of fruit, porridge and toast every day. A victim of its own success the scheme was too expensive to continue from school funds, but now Chepstow-based Endurance Vehicle Solutions has agreed to fund it to the May half term.
