Deprived Isle of Wight families will be celebrating after a little help from Tesco meant they will be able to experience their first holiday in years. The Getaway Foundation received £1,000 from the Tesco Stronger Starts scheme so that families in poverty can enjoy a welcome holiday on the mainland, with food and travel provided. Since 2021, the charity has been helping to create lasting memories for many people in poverty, providing more than 50 holidays for families on the Island. Peter Tebbutt, CEO at The Getaway Foundation, said:
“We are very grateful to Tesco for this funding. It will make such a difference to many Isle of Wight families’ lives. “Poverty should not be a barrier to families having fun on holiday and to them having access to food on holiday, and Tesco’s Stronger Starts scheme has certainly helped to fund food and activities on holiday. “All the families we support are referred to us by Isle of Wight social services, and most have not been on holiday for at least three years.” “Because poverty is one of the biggest issues impacting families today, we want to help some of them create happy family memories through great holidays, and the Tesco funding will help us to do that this year.”
As part of the holiday service, The Getaway Foundation will provide the families’ crossing via Wightlink and a taxi on the mainland, as well as access to food support at the holiday resort. One family said:
“It has been a really challenging and traumatic year for us so far, and the holiday has given us all something to hold onto and look forward to. I can’t put into words how very grateful I am.”
Another family added:
“Watching the children so full of happiness just filled my heart with so much joy. You really have given us a priceless gift.”
Tesco’s Stronger Starts scheme was created to help schools and children’s groups provide equipment for healthy activities or nutritious food and healthy activities, such as breakfast clubs or snacks, to support young people’s physical health and mental wellbeing. Organisations and schools wanting to apply for funding can visit www.tescoplc.com/strongerstarts.
Glad to read that families will be getting much needed FUNDING.
on top of the rent benefit, council tax benefit, child tax credits, other tax credits, child benefit, free dental, free eye test, free healthcare, income support, disability payments, food banks.
since when did it become acceptable to just simply sponge off everyone else -leeches
Wow!!!
What a bitter and twisted old cnut you are.
One imagines with a crude comment like that Widget’s family are all pushing a ‘state funded’ buggy full to ensure that the poverty carries over to the next generation too.
Contraception is FREE, but of course IF the desperate poor ‘used’ it, they would not be given a free home, free c.tax, hundreds a week and they would have to pay for their dental care, prescriptions, heating and food.
So they prefer to selfishly bring in new lives to their ‘self declared’ poverty struck world.
How very selfish of them, or as I suspect they KNOW they are onto a good thing, and by whinging they know the squeaky wheel get the most ‘oil’.
Give NOTHING imo
what a freeloading, excuse making, do gooder you are – how about you bust your gut all day at work, only to see a large chunk taken in taxation, leaving you with less than the minimum wage to actually live on, only to see these sponging parasites getting more than you, for doing eff all.
you are a gullible mug widget.
Sucks remove yes remove negative people and there comments