A CAFE has launched a scheme to provide free, healthy breakfasts to residents in Grangetown in order to alleviate food poverty in the community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Breakfast Club, a daily event held at The Hideout caf\u00e9, is a free service available to anyone who needs it, including those financially affected by COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hideout is in the new Grange Pavilion community centre, which secured National Lottery Awards for All funding for the Breakfast Club, in partnership with Cardiff University’s Community Gateway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Residents’ groups in Grangetown served free lunches to families throughout the summer holidays. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new initiative at The Hideout will run from Monday to Friday for 10 weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zara Ali, manager at The Hideout, described the response in the local community as “very supporting”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The best part has been meeting the locals,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“As a business, it’s not that great because we were open the first week before lockdown and then lockdown happened and we had to close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We just take each day as it comes. Our main aim is to do the breakfast club and help the people who come here.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Grangetown is one of the most deprived wards in Cardiff with some of the highest rates of child poverty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I think it’s a good thing that they do it because some parents can’t afford to give their kids breakfast and at least here they’re getting something to eat,” said Kathryn, a Grangetown resident. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“And like the breakfast club at the schools, they don’t do that any more so this is ideal.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lynne Thomas, Community Gateway project manager, hopes the Breakfast Club will encourage members of the community to volunteer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The Breakfast Club project will support Grangetown residents financially impacted and emotionally impacted by COVID-19 by providing a free food service and social interaction \/ check-in,” she said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Beneficiaries will also be signposted to other services and projects partnered with Grange Pavilion, such as the Friends and Neighbours groups and the Grangetown COVID-19 support network.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A CAFE has launched a scheme to provide free, healthy breakfasts to residents in Grangetown in order to alleviate food poverty in the community. The Breakfast Club, a daily event held at The Hideout caf\u00e9, is a free service available to anyone who needs it, including those financially affected by COVID-19. The Hideout is in the new Grange Pavilion community centre, which secured National Lottery Awards for All funding for the Breakfast Club, in partnership with Cardiff University’s Community Gateway. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":553,"featured_media":44951,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[6737],"class_list":["post-44949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grangetown","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n