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# Poetry competition for children launched as part of campaign highlighting issue of food banks
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/poetry-competition-for-children-launched-as-part-of-campaign-highlighting-issue-of-food-banks/
- Published: 2021-05-22T08:27:54.000Z
- Updated: 2021-05-22T08:27:58.000Z
- Description: Children in Lichfield are being invited to create a poem about hunger as part of a national competition.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Charity, News

Children in Lichfield are being invited to create a poem about hunger as part of a national competition.

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The Trussell Trust is launching on youngsters aged under nine to draw a hungry character and tell its story in poetry as part of an initiative to end the need for food banks.

The top twenty entries will be published in a poetry book for the Bye Bye Hunger campaign.

The initiative comes after figures revealed 2,750 emergency food parcels were distributed for children in Lichfield over the past year – up from 1,441 in the previous 12 months.

The Bye Bye Hunger competition was inspired by a mother who sent a poem to the Trussell Trust earlier this year about how she was judged for needing a food bank to feed her child.

Her words were turned into a short film:

A panel of celebrity judges – including comedian Dom Joly, actress Tamzin Outhwaite and Children’s Laureate Cressida Cowell – have been chosen to select the winning entries for the Bye Bye Hunger competition.

Tamzin Outhwaite said:

> “The mother’s poem was just so heart-breaking – we must stop and reflect on this and create a hunger free future together.  
>  
> “The Bye Bye Hunger poetry competition is a wonderful way for kids to share their amazing imaginations and show us all what a hunger free future looks like.”  
>  
> Tamzin Outhwaite

Children have until 30th May to submit their entries. For more details on how to enter visit [www.trusselltrust.org/poems](http://www.trusselltrust.org/poems?ref=lichfieldlive.co.uk).