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12 May 2023
Q&A

Charles K

Have you had any financial support from your local council?

It. Yeah, we've had support. Yeah, we've had support from the local council, London Borough in the halftime holidays and all that. They have been providing us with vouchers each week for 15 pounds. They send them as a high street voucher, electronic high street voucher, which is emailed over to us. And the school has been wonderfully placed for us that don't have access to the internet. The school will print out the voucher for you so you could take it to the shop. We also had a 150 pound one off payment from our Council, which we had to apply for. Well, I only found out about that through my parents group. What's that group? It was a charity that was trying to put the words out that some accounts had this grant fund and if you met the certain criteria, being under low income, you could apply for 150 pound one off grant, which basically just went on all my gas as of a prepayment gas meter. So I ended up with a couple of months worth of gas in the winter, which really helped. So, yeah, we'd be one of the lucky ones. And then Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, last holiday, he was issuing all London school children with vouchers for lunches, for holidays.

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