Re: Dispatches,Ch4 tonight ,Growing Up Poor
Looks like the good people of Yorkshire were more than moved ?
From Hull News
A message from Hull to the Cambridge Channel 4 family living on £5 per day.
Hundreds of people have offered support to a family in Hull who are living on just £5 per day.
Generous folk from across the city have come forward with offers of food, presents and cash for the family who appeared on Channel 4 documentary Growing Up Poor: Britain’s Breadline Kids on Monday.
The story of eight-year-old Courtney, her brother and mother, leaving their three-bedroom flat in Cambridge for a better life in Hull broke viewers hearts - and saw Hull Live inundated with messages from well-wishers.
Ch4 Dispatches programme detailed how the family had fled abuse - but delays in the Universal Credit system meant they had to wait one month for any payment to come through.
It left them with just £5 child tax credits per day to pay for food, electric, heating and other vital bills.
Since the show aired, hundreds of people have discussed how moved they were by the programme, with many offering to take the family food shopping for a Christmas meal, and also to buy the young children presents.