When people gather in Trafalgar Square on 4 October in London, we will be calling on the leaders of our country's political parties to end child poverty. And, of those leaders, it is Prime Minister Gordon Brown whose support we will most be striving to attract.
We know he is listening. In March, Brown said: "Child poverty is the scar that demeans Britain. When we allow just one life to be degraded or derailed by early poverty, it represents a cost that can never be fully counted."
All we have to do now is convince the Prime Minister that the campaign to End Child Poverty is not a lone voice. We need to have thousands of voices from all corners of the UK calling in unison so he knows this is what everyone wants. At 2.30pm children and adults alike will blow whistles, clap thunder sticks, rattle rice shakers and shout through their megaphones to create a noise so loud that Downing Street can't ignore them.
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