"Lets feed our weans"

The community led project I wanted to help make a difference with was the holiday hunger programme. The aim of the programme is to provide all children with a meal during the summer holidays.

As a parent with three children I know how difficult it can be during school holidays. Our project was 'let's make a difference, stop child poverty' and 'let's feed our weans' as holiday hunger was a subject that came up as an important issue. To progress with this we thought about different ways of thinking about health, poverty and inequality while also focusing on participation and power and bringing  these topics into our group project.

We looked at established projects in our area and found a few already running like summer programmes set up and run by community learning and home school partnership, food banks set up and run by Loaves and Fishes,  East Kilbride  community food banks running in various community halls such as Westwood community hall, and found out about holiday and breakfast clubs. We contacted them  to get more information on how they work and what the criteria was for families to access them and we asked them what more can be done within their areas. We contacted our local authority also to find out about recent pilot projects in schools and what the plans were to develop them. This gave us an understanding of where the gaps were and how we could help fill them in order to help local families.