Keir Starmer's Easter Message

hello hello welcome thank you very much we have a really busy weekend of Easter services taking place which we're really excited about that there's real issues about things like cost and living and therefore are you having to do a lot of support work there as well so from covid to now with cost of living fuel poverty you know food poverty so one of the things that

we do here is the drop in um service that people can access historically it started off as a homeless driving so that you've got I mean it's probably a warm yes shelter hot three course then get a haircut access to Claws and things like that particularly through Easter that's going to be a big theme is it in terms of Easter very very special time for the

church but also a time when people are looking for that support I guess as well and you want to say this is what it's what it's about one of the things that we we do annually is stopping holiday hunger right yeah so a bunch of our students get involved in some of that as well packing some things happen is working in school programs or facilitate School

meals where you know schools aren't able to do film during holiday periods and there's someone we just love to get involved with and I'm assuming that things are getting worse not better because everything pretty much has gone up apart from wages yeah and living standards and so people are just struggling more trying to make ends meet is becoming very very difficult for lots of families it

used to be like you said it used to be mainly homeless people but now it's changed it's people that are really struggling to put a meal on the table and what about the celebration of Easter itself I mean tell me what that means for you and the community and how how you do it here oh it's massive possibly yeah the biggest second to Christmas thing that