A London nursery group has expanded a charity partnership to fund additional childcare hours for disadvantaged children across the capital.
Food charity City Harvest currently provides 39 nurseries run by social enterprise group London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) with surplus donated food as part of LEYF’s Doubling Down programme.
Donations made by City Harvest since November 2022 have been used to provide children with 60,000 healthy meals, saving LEYF nearly £5,000 over the first three months of the programme, the early years provider says.
The money saved has been used to fund 15 additional nursery hours for disadvantaged children who do not qualify for the government’s 30-hour scheme because their parents are either unemployed or on low incomes.
