Seven new breakfast clubs have been opened by Greggs’ charitable foundation following a move to allow customers to donate with each purchase.
The clubs will allow more than 400 children to get a breakfast before school each day, and take the breakfast club network to more than 650 around the 海角视频.
Five of the clubs - at Sir Charles Parsons School and Wingrove Primary in Newcastle; Dunn Street Primary School in Jarrow; Richardson Dees Primary in Wallsend; and Whitley Memorial CoE Primary School in Bedlington, Northumberland - have been established in partnership with sponsors.
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Clubs at Bishops Primary School in Ashington, and Wessington Primary School, Washington, are funded directly by the Greggs Foundation.
The breakfast club initiative was set up in 1999 and has grown to offer healthy breakfasts to around 40,000 children each day. Greggs announced an ambition to increase the network of clubs to 1,000 by 2025 as part of its Greggs Pledge.
Lynne Hindmarch, breakfast club manager for the Greggs Foundation, said: “No child should ever start their day without breakfast, which is why we’re delighted to be opening seven new breakfast clubs across the North East, thanks to the generous support and funding of various organisations in the region.
“Through breakfast clubs such as these, we’re able to support over 40,000 children each day nationally, and new openings like these are helping us to continue heading towards reaching our target of serving 70,000 breakfasts each school day by 2025.”
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The average breakfast club costs £3,000 to set up and run for an academic year. In May, Greggs raised £120,000 with its latest breakfast club appeal to support meals for 480,000 children, after which the company arranged a system where customers can “donate a breakfast for 25p” when making any purchase.
The new clubs have been set up with sponsors including Space Group, Speedy Freight, Oakfield Foods, Baker Hughes and Enterprise Rent-A-Car, through the company’s Enterprise Holdings Foundation.
Each year, Greggs donates at least 1% of its profits to the Greggs Foundation. Along with support from colleagues and partners, this enabled the charity to invest more than £3m in 2020 in a wide range of initiatives that improve the quality of life in its local communities, including breakfast clubs.
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