Central Co-op is marking Children’s Mental Health Week with an extension of its partnership with Magic Breakfast, a charity that promotes learning by providing children and young people at risk of hunger with breakfast, giving them the fuel they need to focus on their education.
Here are the six schools now in the scheme:
Kilburn Junior School in Belper, Derbyshire
Whittington Moor Nursery & Infant School in Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Northfield Road Primary in Dudley, West Midlands
Silkmore Primary Academy in Stafford, Staffordshire
Northfield St Nicholas Primary Academy in Lowestoft, Suffolk
Buswells Lodge Primary in Leicester, Leicestershire
Central Co-op is supporting Magic Breakfast via funding raised from compostable carrier bag sales. This support will be in place over the next two years, and the schools are in close proximity to Central Co-op stores, meaning that Central Co-op can educate students on important topics like healthy eating and Fairtrade foods too.
Central Co-op has also provided each of the schools with an annual £300 voucher to spend in their local store to help bolster their breakfast provision.
This year Magic Breakfast is using Children’s Mental Health Week to highlight the impact eating breakfast has not just on educational attainment but on mental health and wellbeing as well, and how breakfast not only solves the immediate need of hunger but can increase a child’s confidence and focus and reduce stress and anxiety.
