US EditionCoats for Carlisle Launches to Keep Community Warm This Winter
Barnardo’s survey shows 15% of UK parents worry about affording winter coats for their children amid rising poverty and benefit limits, urging donations.
- This winter, Barnardo’s warns there could be 300,000 children in the UK facing the cold without winter coats, with Dame Helen Mirren backing the campaign and highlighting families living from hand to mouth.
- Benefit limits such as the two-child policy and record low-income child figures—4.45 million in households on relative low income—are cited by campaigners as underlying causes for the coat shortage.
- A YouGov survey last month polled 1,132 parents and 1,016 children, while Barnardo’s combined this with ONS families and households data to estimate 2.2 million parents struggle to afford warm clothing.
- The charity is asking for donations of funds or coats at Barnardo’s shops, with Well Suited CIC collecting at 29 Fisher Street on the next two Saturdays, said Wendy Haslam, 'We are always a bit quieter in the winter and I want to still be useful.'
- The Warm Homes scheme, announced earlier this year, targets 5 million families in deep fuel poverty and 2.73m households in fuel poverty in England, but delivery runs until 31 March 2028.
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New research from Barnardo’s and YouGov suggests that 300,000 children in the UK do not have a winter coat. This comes as 5 million families are in deep fuel poverty, which raises questions about the timeline of the government’s Warm Homes scheme. In reality, this is what Child Poverty now looks like in Britain. Child poverty — kids going cold The new figures suggest that one in seven parents in the UK will struggle to afford a coat or other war…
My parents are on benefits and can’t afford to buy us coats - I dread winter
Walking to school without a coat, Scarlet Swaddle would often arrive wet and shivering and would wrap her cardigan around herself in an attempt to get warm. The now-17-year-old told The i Paper she and her siblings have always struggled when it comes to having winter coats and she admits she has now become hardened to the harsh weather and has just got used to suffering the cold. “My mum is disabled and my dad is her full-time carer so neither o…
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Dame Helen Mirren ‘heartbroken’ as children face winter without warm clothing
The actress is an ambassador for the charity Barnardo’s which helps those most in need.
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