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
Becky Hothersall, Development Officer,The Poverty Alliance Click here to explore the photostories!(opens in new tab) Click here for exhibition details(opens in new tab) Over the past few months, citizens’ panel members from the Taking Action on Rural Poverty project have been working on a Photostories project, using photos and personal stories to explore the lived realities of the rural poverty premium – the extra … Read more
Ralph Hartley, Policy Officer, The Poverty Alliance Click here to say Make Green Fair!(opens in new tab) Last week the Scottish Government predicted that the latest rise in everyone’s energy bills will plunge 110,000 more Scots into fuel poverty. This is yet another blow in what has become an enduring crisis of affordability in our … Read more
Living in rural Scotland comes with a hidden, unjust financial penalty that can trap households in hardship. Today, we’re publishing lessons learned from our three-year Taking Action on Rural Poverty project, funded by The Robertson Trust. We look at the ways government and agencies can work to lower the extra costs placed on people in … Read more
Living in rural Scotland comes with a hidden, unjust financial penalty that can trap households in hardship and ‘quiet crisis’, a new report says. The Poverty Alliance has published lessons learned from a three-year project looking at the extra costs placed on people in rural communities when it comes to getting everyday necessities like food, … Read more
How can national partners support local change in rural Scotland? This briefing sets out our experience of helping parents in Aberdeenshire who were concerned about the impact of proposed ‘mothballing’ of nurseries in the county. The parents and local campaigners won in Aberdeenshire, but local anti-poverty campaigning continues. We learned some key lessons to take … Read more
Our Taking Action on Rural Poverty project was set up to explore the extra barriers that people in rural areas face when it comes to reducing poverty and inequality. We often hear from rural organisations that they struggle to attract funding for anti-poverty work. As part of a networking and learning event themed around funding, … Read more
This report is the first of a series capturing our learning around the processes of engagement and bringing people who have experienced the unjust cost of rural living into the centre of the work. In this report, we reflect on the decision-making process we used to allocate seed funding to two test of change pilot … Read more
Click here to read more about Taking Action on Rural Poverty(opens in new tab) Poverty Alliance are increasingly concerned about the impact of rising prices. Especially in rural Scotland where households on a low income face a rural premium for essentials like food, energy and transport. We spoke to Martin and Jennifer (not real names) … Read more
Lynda Mitchell, CEO ALI Energy Click here to read more about our work alongside ALI Energy(opens in new tab) Argyll, Lomond and the Islands energy agency (ALIenergy) is an Oban-based charity that works to promote sustainable energy use and renewable energy generation, to address fuel poverty and reduce carbon emissions. Here ALIenergy’s CEO Lynda Mitchell … Read more
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