Yorkshire Children’s Charity are supporting 372 children across 33 schools in Leeds as demand for children’s winter essentials like coats and bedding has doubled since last year.
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00:00I'm Charlotte Farrington and I am the founder of Yorkshire Children's Charity.
00:03We've had a really busy couple of weeks here in the warehouse as part of our
00:07winter essentials campaign. We've seen a significant increase in terms of demand
00:11this year. We are working with 160 schools across Yorkshire, 33 of those
00:15schools are in Leeds. We've increased on 50% from last year in terms of the
00:21number of applications that we've had. We really wanted to make sure that we were
00:25only supplying gifts and clothing to those children that without intervention
00:31from Yorkshire Children's Charity would a. receive absolutely nothing on
00:35Christmas morning and b. would be very cold this winter. We're supporting 372
00:40children across Leeds with winter support and within the winter support
00:45we've got coats and gloves and scarves, pyjamas, anything basically that is
00:52essential to keep children warm. As part of that we're doing a gift campaign as
00:58well for these children so we'll be sending out its 6,000 gifts to 2,000
01:03children across Yorkshire. Last year when we received it the children couldn't stop
01:08talking about it in January because they had something, they were warm and you
01:14know they felt cared for and they had that sense of belonging and that's
01:17something that we strongly believe here at Woodlands and we do everything that
01:22we can to make these children feel safe and make them feel as they belong
01:27because what we're aiming to do is provide better futures for them you know
01:32to break that cycle of deprivation. The reaction from schools and from families
01:39is the reason why we do our job. Last year off the back of this exact same
01:44campaign we saw almost a 30% increase in school attendance purely because
01:49children had shoes on their feet and a warm coat and that's the whole purpose
01:54of what this campaign is. It's about children arriving at school warm, dry and
01:59ready to learn.