End Child Poverty

More than 10,000 people travelled from around the country to take part in the largest ever rally to end child poverty in the UK.

Keep The Promise, staged by the Campaign to End Child Poverty and supported by West Sussex Teachers' Association, saw thousands of people join forces to call on the Government to keep its promise of ending child poverty by 2020.

Host Chris Parker was joined on stage by the Children’s Society’s celebrity campaigner Sophie Ellis Bextor who performed two songs.

Sophie said:

“The End Child Poverty rally brought together thousands of people for one main reason – because they all want to see an end to child poverty in the UK.

"Today, we all sent a clear message to the Government that as a nation we will not sit back and watch millions of children face a bleak future simply by default of being born into a poor family.