BY HAJERA BLAGG LVES TO SLEEP Y CHILDREN
holidays. If it weren’t for services like this, I don’t know what we’d do. Lots of families in the area would starve.”
Since the beginning of the summer, the Unite Community Norfolk branch has raised in excess of £4,000 to continue with its food work through to the Christmas holidays – and with enough to help in other areas of Norwich and also Great Yarmouth.
But Brian says his local Unite Community branch has always emphasised their political approach. They intend to continue ramping up their campaigning for two key demands to tackle holiday hunger – for government funding to be provided so that free school meals continue over the school holidays, or alternatively for benefits payments to be raised to compensate parents for the loss of free school meals.
The Unite Community branch has also teamed up with the PCS union and the TUC to convene a special conference in November about Universal Credit and its invasion of the workplace. After all, of the 2.3m people now on Universal Credit, over a third of them work.
“Like ‘solidarity not charity’, our other slogan, ‘providing the assistance while preparing the resistance’ highlights that this is about a lot more than simply giving out sandwiches and snacks,” Brian explains.
Local Labour Co-operative councillor Chrissie Rumsby, who also volunteers for the project, agrees. “This project has totally evolved and will continue to evolve as we work together also to fight austerity,” she says. “A lot of people talk socialism but this is socialism in action.”
Donations to the Norwich Unite Community Lunches project can be made through its
www.justgiving.com page.
Peter Everard Smith
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