The brilliant charity initiative of providing around 3,200 children’s lunches a day in the school summer holidays is taking shape. It’s one of the key initiatives in Bolton to prevent hunger and assist families experiencing poverty so that more people in the Borough can have the chance of a good life. Throughout the pandemic families living on universal credit welfare payments got an extra £20 a week to support them. Around 20-25% of people in Bolton receive pay below the real living wage and many qualify for universal credit. There is unchecked, widening inequality in pay rates in the country under the government. We live each day with higher inequality than any EU country save Bulgaria. Poor British households are much poorer than their equivalents in France or Germany.