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+ The Living Wage Foundation announces new real Living Wage of £9.30 per hour, up from £9, an increase of 30p per hour + The rate is independently calculated to reflect the increased cost of living and is £1.09 per hour more than the minimum wage (for over 25s) + Over 6,000 UK businesses currently pay the … Read more

Irene Tortajada, Campaigns Officer at The Poverty Alliance shares her reflections on Ken Loach’s new film. Ken Loach has once again shed light on one of the biggest struggles of modern Britain, the rising tide of in-work poverty and insecure work brought by the massively growing gig economy. His new film Sorry we missed you … Read more

The Poverty Alliance coordinated the recent Challenge Poverty Week ( 7- 13 October), a campaign that is building a stronger, broader movement of people with the will, knowledge and determination to tackle the rising tide of poverty. Campaigns Officer Irene Tortajada reviews some of the highlights of the Week. An overwhelming response We are amazed … Read more

Today, leaders of Scotland’s faith communities have united to call for action to ‘loosen the grip of poverty’. More than one in five people in Scotland are living in poverty and this figure is rising. As Challenge Poverty Week closes, religious representatives from across Scotland have come together to call for more action to tackle … Read more

Last month, The Poverty Alliance submitted a number of questions to the UK Government about the effect of Brexit on people who are struggling financially. Under freedom of information legislation, we asked the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Treasury and Department for Exiting the EU for any impact assessments or analyses of Brexit on poverty, … Read more

The Poverty Alliance have today joined forces with over 85 organisations in expressing our grave concerns about the impacts a no-deal Brexit will have on civil society.  Together with organisations from across the UK, we have called on the Prime Minister to urgently engage with our concerns about leaving the EU without a deal on … Read more

Dave Liddell, Chief Executive of Scottish Drugs Forum, discusses the links between poverty and drugs and what more we can do to stop the increase in fatal overdoses. Scotland has almost 60,000 people with a drug problem.  That is a higher proportion of the population than any country in Europe; and our fatal drug overdose … Read more

Neil Cowan, Policy and Parliamentary Officer at the Poverty Alliance, writes on the need for the new Prime Minister to make solving poverty his government’s priority. Boris Johnson will be named the new UK Prime Minister today, after members of the Conservative Party voted overwhelmingly for him to be their new leader. He will meet … Read more

The Scottish Community Development Centre and The Poverty Alliance have announced a new support resource for community-led action research, jointly funded by Scottish Government and The National Lottery Community Fund. The two-year programme will fund six community organisations to develop their own evidence to influence change in their communities – and to take forward actions … Read more