David Eyre,Communications Officer, Poverty Alliance Imagine blowing up a balloon. You puff and puff and puff and eventually tie it off. It’s about the size of your head and you’re very happy with it. But your friend comes along, and they have a balloon too. Except theirs is about twice the size of yours. It’s … Read more
Lydia Murphy, Development Officer, The Poverty Alliance Clilck here to find out more about the Rights In Action project! The Scottish Government recently consulted on a new Human Rights Bill. To ensure the views of people with experience of poverty were reflected in our response the Poverty Alliance facilitated a workshop exploring some of key … Read more
Graeme Robbie,Senior Development Manager,CFINE Community Food Initiatives North East Clilck here to support find more about Cfine’s work! The reality of deep, pernicious, and increasing poverty in a seemingly rich country like ours is a damning indictment of the socio-economic age we live in. For those of us who try to draw attention to the … Read more
Sarah-Jayne Dunn,Policy Manager for the Financial Health Team,Citizens Advice Scotland. Clilck here for more information about the Stressed About Debt campaign! The Citizens Advice network across Scotland has launched our latest campaign. Stressed About Debt? aims to encourage people who are worried and anxious about their bills to seek advice. Over the last few years the … Read more
Alyson Laird, Campaigns Officer, The Poverty Alliance Clilck here to join our Campaigns Mailing List 2023 marked the tenth year of Challenge Poverty Week – our time to come together to call for a just and equal Scotland. There was a flurry of activity over the course of the week and organisations who may have … Read more
Louise Brady, Scotland Policy and Public Affairs Officer,Independent Age Clilck here to read the Homing In report! It’s often, wrongly, assumed that older people don’t face any of the same issues younger generations do when it comes to housing; and instead that all older people own mortgage free homes, immune from the problems seen in … Read more
Ruth Boyle, Policy and Campaigns Manager, The Poverty Alliance Book your MIG seminar place here! We built our social security system so that everyone — especially those who most need it — can have stability and freedom to build a better future for themselves and their households. But over the last few decades, governments have … Read more
David Eyre, Communications Officer, The Poverty Alliance Clilck here to see our consultation response We built our social security system so that everyone — especially those who most need it — can have stability and freedom to prosper and thrive in an uncertain world. But for too long, successive governments have weakened our social security … Read more
Olivia HamiltonMRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences UnitSchool of Health & Wellbeing University of Glasgow In collaboration with the Poverty Alliance, our team at the University of Glasgow have been running a project to explore ways in which income related policies might be able to reduce health inequalities. This is particularly important given the current … Read more
Food on the table, a fair wage at work, a roof over your head, access to high quality, healthcare: these are all human rights, but not all of them are currently enforceable in courts in Scotland. All our human rights are protected in law at the international level, but it can be hard for us … Read more
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