Thousands of school breakfast clubs forced to close due to budget cuts

Thousands of British school children face going hungry in the morning after teachers revealed that one in eight breakfast clubs have been shut down resulting in 75,000 children going without breakfast each day.  

Around 20,000 breakfast clubs were running in schools around Britain providing a nutritious meal for children as well essential childcare for working parents.

However, 3,000 of these have now closed and more than half of teachers (52%) said that budget cuts were to blame for this.

In response, Kellogg’s Corn Flakes is launching the ‘Help give a child a breakfast’ campaign and the company is pledging to make a donation to school breakfast clubs for every pack of Corn Flakes sold with the target of raising a minimum of £300,000 – which will provide one million breakfasts by the end of 2012. 

Watch a video about it here

www.giveachildabreakfast.co.uk