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Anything you can spare to help address child poverty would be gratefully appreciated. All donations will be matched by Barclays - so donating £10, with gift aid, will mean the charity will receive £22.50 - an amazing way to over double your impact. Here's why I chose CPAG:
- In the UK, 1 in 4 children are growing up in poverty.
-47% of children to lone parents are in poverty.
-70% of children in poverty are in working families.
- There are currently 4.1 million children living in poverty in the UK. That's 30% of children - or 9 in a classroom of 30. This figure is expected to rise to 5.2 million by 2022.
- 43 per cent of children in inner London and 34 per cent of children in outer London are living in relative poverty, after you take housing costs into account.
It's unacceptable - and the child poverty action group is one of the most prominant UK charities working on both frontline practical help as well as responsible long-term policy changes to tackle the systemic causes of poverty.
For more info please see https://cpag.org.uk/ and https://cpag.org.uk/child-poverty/child-poverty-facts-and-figures
Thank you so so much for your generosity, it makes the world a better place.