Plans to expand Peterborough breakfast club 'feeding hundreds of kids'
Volunteers set up the service to improve children's school diets and help families through the cost of living crisis
A charity offering school kids in Peterborough free breakfasts want to help more families from further afield.
Compass charity staff run the breakfast club outside Gladstone Park primary school in Millfield every Monday and Friday.
It was first set up to improve children's school diets but has proved helpful for hard-hit families feeling the squeeze of the cost of living crisis.
Since it launched last year, the council-funded community group's doubled the amount of children it provides meals for to around 200 at a time.
CEO of the charity, Petr Torak, said it does more than just feed them:
'On the day we do the breakfast provision, children were on time at school and also they were concentrating much more than when they came without their breakfast.
'It can get very, very busy and quite often the parents come behind the table to help us serve the breakfast.
'The children actually run towards our desk, and they already know us by name. It's created a bond between the charity and the community. It's not just one community either, there's children from Asia, Africa, from European communities.
On those two days a week, children wake their parents up earlier so they can be on time for their breakfast. They can choose from fruit, drinks, chilled items and also bakery items.'