Could you be a community storyteller?
Let’s take a fresh look at Greater Manchester
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Let’s take a fresh look at Greater Manchester
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Church Action on Poverty is looking for people to join our team in the Great Manchester Run on 19 May 2019. Challenge yourself, get fit, and raise funds to help loosen the grip of UK poverty!
Read more “Run to unlock poverty!”
On Church Action on Poverty Sunday (3 March 2019), our local group in the North East questioned local mayoral candidates about their plans to loosen the grip of poverty in the region. Group member Tony Wood shared this report with us.
Read more “Church Action on Poverty in the North East: offering hope to communities?”
Local crisis funds are a vital lifeline for people who find themselves suddenly swept into difficulty. Yet across the country, they have been neglected and removed.
In 2018, our Compassion In Crisis report uncovered the full extent of cuts across England. We’re now making the full data set available, so you can see the situation where you live.
Using this map, you can find the area where you live and see the local data:
Local Welfare Assistance Schemes are there to provide short-term help where it is needed, so people can ride out a storm and keep their head above water. In 2017-18, a quarter of a million people in England sought help this way, but most funds have become threadbare and 28 councils have closed theirs completely. In the past five years, funding has reduced by 72.5% on average.
Our compassionate society is full of systems and supports that we hope not to need, but which must be ready just in case. Take the emergency teams at our hospitals, for instance, or the lifebelts we see alongside rivers all over the country.
For many years, such crisis support has been a vital part of our welfare system too, and its removal leaves thousands adrift in times of trouble. It’s just not right.
Local Welfare is a very small proportion of the overall public budget, but a vital emergency resource that any one of us could find ourselves needing without warning. It is an emergency lifebelt that must be retained.
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Details of the 2019 David Goodbourn Lecture, organised by the Centre for Theology and Justice.
Read more “Sweet Charity?”
North Manchester is the latest area to join the pantry revolution
Read more “How to save £22 a week on food AND help your community”
A creative project in Manchester is exploring the links between social justice and the arts, supported by the Centre for Theology and Justice.
Read more “Longing to belong”
“We hope you find them inspiring and more to the point tasty and frugal.”
Read more “Recipes for change: Tony & Sue say a fantastic thank you”
One of our trustees shares his own Universal Credit story
Read more “Martin speaks up to help unlock poverty”
Joe Forde, vice chair of Church Action on Poverty in Sheffield, shares his thoughts after attending the national Church Action on Poverty conference in Manchester on 17 November 2018.
Read more “Seeing things in a different light”