Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan has used a visit to a holiday food scheme to call on the government to tackle child poverty.
Emergency funding from the Mayor of London has allowed for more than seven million meals to be given out to low-income families during school holidays and at weekends since April.
Our GreenHut in Brixton Windmill Gardens, part of Community Education Foundation & Lyncx, is one of the organisations to receive funding through the Mayor's £3.5million free holiday meals programme.
While visiting Our GreenHut during October half term, Khan told CYP Now: “If it wasn’t for the facilities being organised here in Brixton, these young people would be running round the streets. Idle hands make devil's work and that’s why it’s incredibly important to keep young people busy, safe and healthy.”
