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Holiday hunger

Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: 'It just can't go on'
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Food poverty

Teachers fear more than half a million children will go hungry this summer: 'It just can't go on'

Up to 675,000 school-aged children in England facing holiday hunger this summer – nearly identical to 2024 levels
Inside the primary school 'food shop' ensuring children don't go hungry over summer break
Food poverty

Inside the primary school 'food shop' ensuring children don't go hungry over summer break

More than two thirds of teachers worry children will go hungry this summer: 'Beyond heart-breaking'
child pulling hair of another child who is eating
Child poverty

More than two thirds of teachers worry children will go hungry this summer: 'Beyond heart-breaking'

There's now a children's book about foodbanks. How has it come to this?
Books

There's now a children's book about foodbanks. How has it come to this?

Our holiday hunger petition has passed 500 signatures
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Our holiday hunger petition has passed 500 signatures

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Sign our petition to help us continue our holiday hunger fight
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Sign our petition to help us continue our holiday hunger fight

Catch up with The Big Issue's campaign to end holiday hunger
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Catch up with The Big Issue's campaign to end holiday hunger

Summer’s over but a no-deal Brexit will bring problems beyond holiday hunger
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Social Justice

Summer’s over but a no-deal Brexit will bring problems beyond holiday hunger

Holiday hunger can lead to loneliness and the impact can be felt in term time
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Social Justice

Holiday hunger can lead to loneliness and the impact can be felt in term time

Holiday hunger can drive kids to “eating toilet paper” says charity
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Social Justice

Holiday hunger can drive kids to “eating toilet paper” says charity

'You think you must be a bad parent': One family's holiday hunger plight
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Social Justice

'You think you must be a bad parent': One family's holiday hunger plight

The government knows holiday hunger's a problem. So why don't they tackle it?
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Social Justice

The government knows holiday hunger's a problem. So why don't they tackle it?

Fighting holiday hunger: a team effort by football fans
Social Justice

Fighting holiday hunger: a team effort by football fans

These are the organisations that are tackling holiday hunger
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These are the organisations that are tackling holiday hunger

Why we’re fighting holiday hunger: foodbank demand up 20 per cent last summer
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Social Justice

Why we’re fighting holiday hunger: foodbank demand up 20 per cent last summer

Did you know three million kids will go hungry over the summer holidays?
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Did you know three million kids will go hungry over the summer holidays?

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