Mike's story

I first came across Child Poverty Action Group in 1970 when I went to university and came across the charity’s stall at the Freshers’ Fair.

I was studying economics and one of our textbooks was The Poor and The Poorest by Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend. The very book used to launch CPAG a few years earlier in 1965.

I decided to start supporting the charity. I made a £5 donation out of my first student grant – and I’ve supported Child Poverty Action Group ever since.

It is not right that children are growing up in cramped, unsafe homes and families are going to foodbanks. We can all agree that no child should be living in poverty in the 21st century in our country.

I feel so strongly about this that five years ago, when my wife Annie and I sat down together to update our wills, it was an easy decision to include CPAG in my will.

You only get one chance on this earth so you may as well go and try and make a difference. Leaving money to a charity makes a difference.

Mike Styles