Frank's Blog

Immediately after his re-election as leader of the Labour Party on Saturday, Jeremy Corbyn came to visit the Neo Café project in Rock Ferry. The Neo Café is one of our Feeding Birkenhead projects which aims to prevent children being hungry during the school holidays – a time of year when hard-up parents incur a barrage of additional costs. It does so using good food that would otherwise have been thrown to waste. Jeremy was able to see for himself the good that could

The Government acted swiftly and effectively on two major concerns I brought to its attention last week – both of which affect some of the lowest paid people in our country. The first is the appalling treatment that has been meted out to couriers in the ‘gig economy’ who deliver goods that have been bought online from the likes of John Lewis, Debenhams, and Next. The company responsible for delivering these goods is called Hermes. It relies on a network of 10,500...

It was a privilege to meet with local residents and their guide dogs in the garden of Oxton’s Devaney Medical Centre last Saturday. The event was hosted by the Devaney Patient Participation Group with support from the Practice’s Medical and Admin staff. This was the first time a Medical Centre has laid on such an event. And what a success it was. £800 was raised and this may now become an annual event. Guide dog merchandise was on sale and a brisk trade of homemade...

Hundreds of children returning to school this week will find a treat has been added to the beginning of their school day. The Feeding Birkenhead campaign, which I chair, is equipping our town’s primary schools with the supplies they need to set up or maintain free breakfast clubs for the new term. Having received more than 4,000 boxes of cereal from the charity, His Church, at a special distribution event at Tranmere Rovers, Feeding Birkenhead is already delivering the supplies...