David Eyre 
Polly Jones,Director of Communities,The Trussell Trust &Chair of The Poverty Alliance Click here to join The Poverty Alliance Today is Day 5 of #ChallengePoverty Week – and it’s also when The Poverty Alliance is holding its Annual General Meeting. Our chair Polly Jones writes about the successes and challenges of the past year or so, … Read more
Malcolm Sayers,Senior Policy and Public Affairs Officer Scotland,Independent Age Click here to read Independent Age’s Take Up Gap Briefing It’s long been known that poverty comes at a cost, not only for the people constrained by it, but for society as a whole. The social security system is a vital tool helping protect people from … Read more
Ed Pybus, Chair, Scottish Commission on Social Security Get involved in #ChallengePoverty Week In a special blog to mark the launch of Challenge Poverty Week 2026, SCoSS Chair Ed Pybus writes about the value of social security in addressing poverty and supporting human rights. The Scottish social security system is built around a set of … Read more
Isobel Grahl, Member, Argyll & Bute Taking Action on Rural Poverty Panel Join the call for food essentials The Argyll and Bute Cost or Rural Living citizens’ panel is asking Co-op members to join their call for more access to own-brand breakfast cereals. Will you join them? Over the last two and a half years … Read more
Hayley Bennett, Morgan Currie, and Alli Spring, The University of Edinburgh Read more about the Advancing Digital Welfare Administration (ADWA) project Social security policies have featured heavily in anti-poverty debates in Scotland for the last ten years including urgent questions around Scottish Government powers, social justice approaches to welfare provision, people’s experiences of life on … Read more
Dr Laura Jones, Research Officer,The Poverty Alliance Click here to read the TARP Evaluation Report! Taking Action on Rural Poverty is coming to the end of its three-year funding in October, marking the conclusion of an ambitious project to build understanding and awareness of the rural poverty premium: the unjust additional costs in time and … Read more
After the First Minister unveiled his Programme for Government, Poverty Alliance chief executive Peter Kelly said: “It was good to hear a promise to eradicate child poverty – and we welcome the further development of the Whole Family Wellbeing approach. However, we know that secure, adequate incomes are the bedrock of efforts to eradicate poverty. … Read more
Anti-poverty campaigners say today’s price cap increase from Ofgem shows the urgent need for a social tariff on energy bills. Poverty Alliance chief executive Peter Kelly said: “We can’t achieve a just Scotland until everyone is able to live in a warm home that they can afford to heat. But there are nearly 750,000 households … Read more
Gillian Campbell, Director, Existing Homes Alliance Scotland Read the ExHA briefing on heat networks and fuel poverty Everyone should have a warm, safe place to call home. That means a home that is affordable to heat and healthy to live in. Scotland is energy rich, yet we still have around one in three households living in fuel … Read more
Rural Scotland is energy-rich, and hosts much of the UK’s energy infrastructure, yet one in four rural households lives in extreme fuel poverty. To help change this, The Scottish Government invests in retrofitting homes – providing air-source heat pumps and roof top solar. But, these measures don’t always produce bill savings for rural households. In … Read more
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