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Sunderland Echo, Monday, October 24, 2011www.sunderlandecho.com
Picture by Craig Leng
YOUNGSTERS served up dishes to help raise cash for a vital listening service.
A Place at the Table is a month-long campaign to raise money for the The Place2Be, which provides trained staff to help children living in de-prived areas.
The national charity has workers in nine East Durham schools which are classed as being among the most disad-vantaged areas in the coun-try.
It provides a safe area where any child can go and discuss their problems, no matter how big or small, with someone they trust.
Among those taking part in a Place at the Table was Mur-ton Ribbon Community Pri-mary School, Barnes Road, which laid on special lunches in its community cafe.
The children helped with the meals and served them up to parents, grandparents and members of the community invited along.
Katherine Porter, hub manager for The Place2Be in County Durham, said a number of the East Durham schools are putting on events to promote A Place at the Table, including parent and children lunches and coffee mornings.
She added: “It is a lovely way to celebrate and promote the work we do in schools and to engage with people who might not be sure what we are all about.”
Katherine said a survey
was carried out in the nine schools among the outgoing Year 6 pupils, and all but six said at some point in their time at primary school they had needed to access the Place2Be room to talk over a problem.
A Place at the Table is in-viting people to host a dinner party, cake sale or food event of some kind to help these children who have a lot on their plate.
Other organisations which are holding events, include Durham Police, which is holding a fund-raising day at its headquarters with collec-tion tins and selling Hallow-een biscuits.
Anyone who would like more information about host-ing an event should visit www.theplace2be.org.
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Help on the menufor lifeline serviceBy SUE [email protected]
GRUB UP: Ceira Luke and Abi Laverick, both aged 10, serve lunch to Jim and Susan Hadspith at The Place2Be, watched by manager Katherine Porter.
THE Place2Be works in schools to provide support to children and their families in regions of high deprivation where neglect, family breakdown, domestic violence and depression are commonplace.
The work of the charity combats children’s problems at an early age in a bid to reduce exclusion and long-term mental health problems and give children a sense of well-being and support them to build confidence and self-esteem.
Set up in 1994, The Place2Be is based in 172 schools.
It offers one-to-one and group counselling services to 58,000 children in 20 regional hubs across the UK, and money raised throughout A Place at the Table will help ensure more children are listened to.
Every £6 raised will give a child support when they need it, £22 will pay for a parent/carer to benefit from an hour of counselling, and £105 is the unit cost for providing The Place2Be services in a school.
Vital help for children
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