A businessman from Bolton is helping out an important charity drive over the summer.

Stuart Lever, owner of U Drive Van Hire in Halliwell, is currently lending a van to Bolton charity Urban Outreach, which is currently in the midst of its Bolton Lunch program.

The program provides packed lunches to children who are in need of them over the school holidays.

Beginning nine years ago, the program initially offered the lunches only to children who receive free school meals, but it now provides them to anyone who asks.

Mr Lever, who has been helping the program for a number of years, has a personal connection with the program and what it does.

He said: "My brother and I grew up on free school meals, so it's good to be able to help kids in a similar position.

"It's a fantastic scheme."

The packed lunches contain a roll with either cheese, tuna, or ham, a drink, a brioche or Pain Au Chocolat, some cheese bakes, a yogurt and a piece of fruit too.

There are around 22 sites across Bolton where people can go between 11am and 12pm to collect a packed lunch and people must be of school age between 4 and 18.

The site list is on the Urban Outreach website here: https://www.urbanoutreach.co.uk/portfolio-posts/bl_bolton_lunches/