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You're also looking at doing school
programmes. What can you tell us about that?
Well so far, we’ve visited three schools in May this year and
that was just a basic breakfast programme that we had set up.
A couple of us have experience working with kids and our
subject is something that we see is lacking from the
curriculum. In the future we're going to aim for it to become
something that can be used as a resource for schools, so
something that we can also sustain ourselves from. So in
terms of money, that's what we’re looking to do because
there's a lot of funding for alternatives to the curriculum. We
see it as a really practical way to engage with school kids and
let them know what is going on and how they can get
involved with making positive change outside of school. It’s
about trying to be honest with them about the problems but
not burdening kids with the situation that we're in.
Community outreach is at the heart of what we’re doing.
Is there anything else that you want readers to
know about?
From September we’ll be back in Bristol, planning what
Skipchen should be doing next, how it should provide for the
people of Bristol and also how it should tackle political issues. BV
To find out more about
Skipchen, the ‘pay-asyou-feel’
movement and
food justice, visit
their website. You can
also connect with them
on Facebook.
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