Scarborough cafe provides quality meal packages to help struggling families

The Green Room of Bar Street will be offering 10 free bags of shopping a week to families in need due to the poor quality provision of free school meal packages from the Government.

The shopping will contain dry goods, fresh fruit and vegetables as well as home baked cakes along with easy to make recipe ideas for meals at home.

It follows national outrage this week about the quality of free school meal packages being provided to families after photos circulated on social media on Monday.

The Government has now announced that a new national voucher scheme will be available from next Monday.

Scarborough school admits its free meal package is 'disappointing' after parent's complaintIn a Facebook post, The Green Room said: "We have had an amazing response to our school lunch scheme. It has been so lovely to speak to so many people that just want to feed their kids in these difficult times.

"Thank you to everyone that has messaged and offered to help through donations it's been so kind of you! We don't feel it's much, we wish we could do more but if it helps 10 families have a better week then at least we have done some good. We will be offering the same service next week please feel free to get in touch if we can help."

Shopping will be delivered to the door on a Thursday afternoon absolutely free of charge.