Nottinghamshire based charity, The Youth Enterprise & Employability Academy started Coats for Children in mid December of 2021, this annual campaign comes as hundreds of vulnerable children across the UK are left out in the cold this winter.
This campaign is first and foremost about providing vulnerable children a warm coat over the winter period, schools across east midland can simply submit a request in writing/email to the charity with the age(s) of child(ren), name of Teacher/Youth Leader and school/Youth Organisation. The main thing is about highlighting the issues.
Charity Founder, Kurtis-Jay Castle and Governor of multiple schools across Nottinghamshire said, His heart felt "broken" when he had to spend a good ten or more minutes with two year five pupils whilst they warmed up after arriving at school without, or heavily damaged coats.
“After talking to teachers across Nottinghamshire alone, it became more apparent that more and more vulnerable children are arriving at schools without, or coats that simply aren’t fit for purpose and junior schools seem to be the worst off at the moment.
He than adds, “Unfortunately, it came as a bit of a surprise as we didn’t expect it to be as big of an issue, out of the first five schools alone that we contacted, every one of them had required at least three or more coats and some are still waiting on teachers to get back to them.”
The charity has started the Coats for Children campaign with around 40 Coats that range up to the age of ten year-old which they received with a heavily discounted price from Primark. Within the first few hours of sharing this with a few schools more than half have been delivered to schools across Nottinghamshire alone.
The charity can only deliver on its campaign thanks to all of its supporter, you could be one of them
This campaign is first and foremost about providing vulnerable children a warm coat over the winter period, schools across east midland can simply submit a request in writing/email to the charity with the age(s) of child(ren), name of Teacher/Youth Leader and school/Youth Organisation. The main thing is about highlighting the issues.
Charity Founder, Kurtis-Jay Castle and Governor of multiple schools across Nottinghamshire said, His heart felt "broken" when he had to spend a good ten or more minutes with two year five pupils whilst they warmed up after arriving at school without, or heavily damaged coats.
“After talking to teachers across Nottinghamshire alone, it became more apparent that more and more vulnerable children are arriving at schools without, or coats that simply aren’t fit for purpose and junior schools seem to be the worst off at the moment.
He than adds, “Unfortunately, it came as a bit of a surprise as we didn’t expect it to be as big of an issue, out of the first five schools alone that we contacted, every one of them had required at least three or more coats and some are still waiting on teachers to get back to them.”
The charity has started the Coats for Children campaign with around 40 Coats that range up to the age of ten year-old which they received with a heavily discounted price from Primark. Within the first few hours of sharing this with a few schools more than half have been delivered to schools across Nottinghamshire alone.
The charity can only deliver on its campaign thanks to all of its supporter, you could be one of them