
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.
Earlier this year, a UN special rapporteur found poverty in the UK to be "systematic" and "tragic". The Work and Pensions Committee published a separate report suggesting that while poverty rates are much higher in households where no-one works, almost one in 10 households with children where all adults work full-time are in poverty. In the school holidays, food budgets are stretched even further.
Now a charity from India, who regularly feed 1.76 million school children, says it can help. In this programme, Romy visits a holiday club in Croydon in South London where Akshaya Patra are working with local groups and trialling a new way of providing school meals. Could the organisation's success in India help solve a UK holiday hunger crisis?
Presented by Sheila Dillon and Romy Gill.
By BBC Radio 44.6
241241 ratings
As many UK schools break for half term, chef Romy Gill and Sheila Dillon focus on our national problem with holiday hunger.
Earlier this year, a UN special rapporteur found poverty in the UK to be "systematic" and "tragic". The Work and Pensions Committee published a separate report suggesting that while poverty rates are much higher in households where no-one works, almost one in 10 households with children where all adults work full-time are in poverty. In the school holidays, food budgets are stretched even further.
Now a charity from India, who regularly feed 1.76 million school children, says it can help. In this programme, Romy visits a holiday club in Croydon in South London where Akshaya Patra are working with local groups and trialling a new way of providing school meals. Could the organisation's success in India help solve a UK holiday hunger crisis?
Presented by Sheila Dillon and Romy Gill.

7,760 Listeners

370 Listeners

529 Listeners

895 Listeners

1,060 Listeners

410 Listeners

297 Listeners

5,518 Listeners

2,114 Listeners

2,092 Listeners

281 Listeners

350 Listeners

163 Listeners

97 Listeners

240 Listeners

63 Listeners

349 Listeners

234 Listeners

164 Listeners

330 Listeners

44 Listeners

3,213 Listeners

203 Listeners

71 Listeners

134 Listeners

688 Listeners

579 Listeners

626 Listeners

371 Listeners

247 Listeners

57 Listeners

79 Listeners

119 Listeners

112 Listeners