The Munch Club

Some great photos from the Crookston Community Group (CCG)

Kids Lunch Munch Club, which brought together local children to enjoy delicious and healthy food over the summer holidays.

The Kids Lunch Munch Club was supported by our Family Food Service, and promised to help make children and families "healthy, wealthy and zealthy"!

The Guardian

Action for Children said its analysis of official figures published on Thursday showed council budgets for early help services designed to prevent families falling into crisis had shrunk by £743m – more than a quarter – over the past five years.

The cut includes a £450m reduction in Sure Start children’s centre budgets alone, which fell by 42% between 2013-14 and 2018-19.

The precarious finances of many councils have been blamed in part on the rising number of children being taken into care. Increased child protection spending is forcing some authorities to close Sure Start centres to balance their books. An estimated 1,000 centres may have closed since 2010.

The increase in poverty around Scotland and the UK bring's an increasing need for projects like "The Kids Munch Club"

especially through the summer when they don't have access to school breakfast and lunches. for some kids school lunches are the only hot meal they will get that day and that is what makes the "Kids munch club" so vital.