Yorkshire Children’s Charity launch vital campaign to keep Yorkshire’s most vulnerable children warm this winter
Yorkshire Children’s Charity is launching its 2024 Winter Support Campaign, aiming to support families by offering essential items.
Now that children have gone back to school, and the weather has turned, families are feeling the cost-of-living crisis more than ever.
To keep children warm this winter, Yorkshire Children’s Charity’s 2024 Winter Support Campaign aims to support families by offering essential items like warm, waterproof coats, school shoes, bedding, and pyjamas.
Towards the end of the year, the charity will also be helping families to provide festive gifts.
Last year, the charity supported 1058 children with winter essentials and Christmas presents, delivering over 9000 items across Yorkshire, and have already received over 2000 applications for 2024.
As a result of last year’s campaign, 87% of schools reported students are warmer and drier as a result of the winter coats that were provided, 26% of schools reported an improvement in attendance as a result of putting new, dry shoes on feet and 82% of schools reported an improvement in children’s wellbeing.
Yorkshire has the third highest rate of child poverty in the UK, with 31% of children living in the region currently living in poverty.
Yorkshire Children’s Charity aims to relieve some of the immediate struggles of families living with poverty and disability, while in the long-term they are working to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty across the region. The Winter Support Campaign is just one of many programmes that run throughout the year.
Want to get involved? Whilst the first round of the Winter Support Campaign has closed whilst the charity fulfils the current applications, a second intake will open up in January 2025.
To receive information about how teachers can get involved in the next round and put families forward, schools can email wintersupport@yorkshirechildrenscharity.org.
Visit this link to make a donation.
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