Co-op Warm Spaces Funding Boost has provided £3,500 of match funding
Prevent Holiday hunger for Kids this Winter
Mitcham, Greater London, United Kingdom
Aim
We need your help to run school holiday clubs for children living below the poverty line in the winter
Who are we?
Solidarity Action
Its aims are to;
1.To bring hope to underprivileged children.
2. To provide underprivileged children with a well-rounded education.
3. To increase the awareness of privileged children of the need to participate in community service initiatives.
4. To raise a generation of change agents/nation builders.
5. To provide valuable and life changing mentorship to underprivileged children.
6. To improve the educational outcomes of underprivileged children by enhancing teacher quality through appropriate professional development programmes.
The Charity's objects (the Objects) are:
The advancement of education.
The relief of poverty.
The preservation and protection of good health amongst the general and in particular, the beneficial class so as to improve their conditions of life.
The advancement of the arts, culture, heritage.
And other purposes currently recognised as charitable and any new charitable purposes which are similar to another charitable purpose.
Community impact
We provide training in Youth Work, Employability and Enterprise Skills and we offer lots of opportunities for volunteering. We usually have a mix of about 15 adult and young volunteers (intergenaration).
Solidarity Action is always busy with arts, crafts, music, sports, film, photography, drama, games, gardening and cooking, and our staff are always ready to provide help and advice on a range of issues. We provide a quieter drop-in session for children and young people with anxiety disorders or autism. This is a tailored session where appropriately trained staff provide additional support. Some home-educated children attend these quieter sessions.
We run a weekly peer support group for people with mobility issues. This group tackles social isolation and improves mental health too.
Why are we crowdfunding?
We Crowfunding to Prevent Holiday hunger for children in winter time and when kids are fed and engaged over the school holidays, they return to school more prepared to learn.
How we?ll spend the money raised
We will use money to pay for Min one free and healthy meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) and one snack per person each session, Voluntary Expenses, Crafts and others materials
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This project successfully funded on 17th January 2023