# Barnardo’s director to eat for £1 a day for a week to raise funds

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2017/08/27/barnardos-director-eats-1-day-week-raise-funds/
- Published: 2017-08-27T11:41:03+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Roy Clark, Barnardo’s Director of Retail and Trading, is about raise funds for
the charity by attempting to eat for a week on just £1 a day.**

Together with his friend Steve Palmer, from Kettering, Clark hopes to raise £5,000
by spending just £7 on ingredients for breakfast, lunch and dinner to sustain him
for seven days.

He said: “I’m getting really nervous about it now; I’ve been thinking about what
I normally have to eat during the day and I think this is going to be tough.

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“I’ll usually have a slice of toast in the morning and then a £3 meal deal for my
lunch followed by a meal in the evening. So spending just £1 per day really does
not seem very much at all.”

The only ‘free’ sustenance during the week will be water.

Mr Clark added: “This is going to be a difficult 7 days. We are going to have to
do a lot of preparation so we can budget for the week and know what we are going
to be cooking and eating each day.”

The pair have set up a [fundraising page on JustGiving](https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/steveandroyspoundaday).

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