Medicash donates to 'Feeding Birkenhead' project with Frank Field MP

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Medicash has provided financial support to The Hive Zone to enable the youth group to offer free membership and free meals across the school holidays.

The grant from the Medicash Charitable Trust has been awarded to The Hive as part of the ‘Feeding Birkenhead' project, an initiative championed by local MP Frank Field. The project is a coalition of community groups, churches and other organisations, working together to eliminate hunger in Birkenhead, but just as importantly, to use this as a way of helping people to deal with the major problems in their lives. Its programme centres on three main projects: school holiday meals and fun, School Breakfast Clubs and Food Bank Plus, each of which is now being extended across the country by...

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