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Thrive is a Church Action on Poverty initiative based in Stockton-on-Tees.

Thrive logoOur Thrive (previously called 'Just Thornaby') initiative has been working in Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, for several years. There are two strands to the project:

Sustainable Livelihoods pilot

The Livelihoods approach takes people as the starting point and examines how their strengths are enhanced or inhibited by political structures. These strengths are in five areas which are required to build up a livelihood which is sustainable. The initiative so far has mapped existing community resources according to the Livelihoods framework, Macro, Meso and Micro (international / national, regional / sub regional and local).

Through community links developed by the project worker, households take part in research which aims to understand how these three tiers of power affected people and how they adapted their strategies for ‘getting by’. There are often gaps between the two areas, so we identify and act on issues for potential interventions, such as mental health, jobs and training, financial inclusion, leisure services and participation.

See the Sustainable Livelihoods Handbook for more information on the approach, and guidelines on how you could use it in your own community.

You can also watch a 10-minute video of people being interviewed about their experiences being part of this Sustainable Livelihoods project.

For more information on the Sustainable Livelihoods approach, as used within international development, visit the Livelihoods website, administered by the Institute for Development Studies.

Community organising

Thrive is also developing into a broad-based community organisation, using the same principles as our ChangeMakers projects. The aim here is to further involve sections of the community whose life choices are most limited by political structures, and enable them to take action for change.

See the Thrive newsletter for details of the actions taken through our community organising work.

Find out more about Thrive

For more information on  Thrive, contact Greg Brown.
Thrive also runs a blog called Making Do.

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Church Action on Poverty is a national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK. It works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.