News Release

11th February 2009

Join Local Businesses to Eat Breakfast and Save Lives

Business folk in Wokingham are inviting others to join them helping to feed children in Africa by tucking in to a hearty breakfast towards the end of the month. Join them at a special meeting of Wokingham and Bracknell Business Referral Exchange on 26th February, at Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Off Peacock Lane, Wokingham, RG40 3DF. It starts at 7.15 am and gives businesses the opportunity for valuable networking as well.

It’s all part of a larger campaign promoted by locally based charity Feed the Children UK and its chief executive, Brian Main, will address the meeting.

“During the week 23-28th February we are asking business groups to use our ‘Eat A Breakfast, Save A Life’ campaign to invite people along to a breakfast meeting with a difference,” says Brian. “We know business is tough, but there are many people in the world where simple daily life is really tough. By coming along to the meeting, you will be helping to raise some much needed funds as well as seeing how we help to feed some of the most vulnerable children in the world.”

Wokingham & Bracknell BRX chairman, Mark Vaughan adds, “BRX is a great format to make new business contacts and if we can help Feed the Children in its work at the same time, its got to be a winner.”

If you want to join the meeting, cost £12 which includes a £2 donation to the charity, go to www.brxnet.co.uk/wokingham or email tony.harrison@brxnet.co.uk.

Feed The Children works worldwide, as well as within the UK, to develop sustainable communities and provide food and other necessities for those in great need.  The charity concentrates aid on children suffering the affects of poverty, especially those orphaned or abandoned. The charity believes that wherever there is famine, conflict, disease or poverty, it is always the children who are most vulnerable.

Feed The Children UK registered in 1994 and over the years the charity has helped millions of children and their families both at home and abroad. The charity relies on gifts from generous companies, individuals and organisations to donate the goods and financial assistance needed in order to support the various humanitarian and relief projects.