{"id":784426,"date":"2026-09-27T16:38:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784426\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T16:38:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:38:19","slug":"leeds-baby-bank-calls-for-more-donations-to-help-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784426\/","title":{"rendered":"Leeds Baby Bank calls for more donations to help families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The charity will be 10 years old in January and Nogbou said that staff had seen a change in the families who needed their support over time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;When we started, pre-Covid, maybe one in five children in Leeds lived in relative poverty,&#8221; she explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now, you&#8217;re looking at one in two children in some parts, and that&#8217;s just a shocking number that really shouldn&#8217;t be happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nogbou said that about 70% of the children they helped had a parent who was working and she said many were &#8220;not managing to manage the bills with energy and fuel prices going up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to government statistics, 27% of children in the Yorkshire and Humber region lived in relative low income families &#8211; the joint highest proportion, alongside the West Midlands, in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A relative low income family is one living on less than 60% of the median national household income for that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The charity will be 10 years old in January and Nogbou said that staff had seen a change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}