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Magic Breakfast appoints young food poverty campaigners

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A group of young people have been appointed by Magic Breakfast to campaign and lobby politicians on food poverty issues.
Youth campaigners meet MPs Emma Lewell-Buck and Neil Coyle outside parliament. Picture: Adobe Stock
Youth campaigners meet MPs Emma Lewell-Buck and Neil Coyle outside parliament. Picture: Adobe Stock

The charity, which has been co-delivering the government’s school breakfast programme with Family Action for the last three years, has announced that 10 youth campaigners have been appointed and will be “central to the charity’s campaign work to ensure no child is too hungry to learn in the UK”.

All are aged between 15 and 21 years old and half have experience of food insecurity and poverty.

Magic Breakfast’s contract with Family Action to deliver the National School Breakfast Programme (NSBP) ends at the end of July.

The charity did not bid for the new contract in England, which will be delivered from the start of the next school year by Family Action.

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