UK charity steps up campaign against child hygiene poverty

Gordon Brown at a Multibank warehouse in Fife. He said the initiative was ‘making a real difference [to] hard-pressed families’. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

A charity founded by the former prime minister Gordon Brown is to increase its campaign efforts against child hygiene poverty this year.

The Multibank, which was founded by the former Labour leader, is working with a number of sports clubs across Britain and the Hygiene Bank charity. Over the Christmas and new year period it collected thousands of hygiene products at sporting fixtures.