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Bex (16), a student from Rushcliffe Comprehensive School, winners of the 2008 Giving Nation national award, reports on her experience of the Giving Nation Awards day in Westminster.

This is Bex‘s report on her and her charity team‘s experience of the Giving Nation Awards day in London and winning a trip to the [...]

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The worst thing about poverty is how deeply and unexpectedly it affects lives. When we begin to list that indicate poverty we think of a lack of food, a safe place to live, work, education, maybe at a most basic level of description: money. But, for me, it is the way that poverty deeply erodes [...]

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It is a long way from London to Beverley but the views from the window on the train are getting better by the minute. Purple fields, bright green trees, I am now heading towards Humberside on my second visit for G-Week.

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This is the 0802 from Charing Cross to Folkestone Central. I am on my way to the first school on my G-Week list. The train carriage is eerily empty and apart from a few lonely free newspapers discarded by rushing commuters, the lady slumped asleep against the steamy window and I appear to be the [...]

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Sitting on the stairs opposite the French embassy in the afternoon I enter my final debate. We are watching as a huge trail of French people queue around the embassy and back again waiting to vote. The amount of people is astonishing. I later learn from my contact Elise, at FUNDESO who spent an hour [...]

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