📷 Online Rally 📷 Thursday 30th May 7-8pm
Poverty has to be on the agenda at the General Election on 4 July. Join the #LetsEndPoverty online rally to find out how to challenge all parties to make tackling poverty their priority before election day! letsendpoverty.co.uk/latest/events/…

Get involved and approach your local parliamentary candidates to find out how they plan to reduce devastating levels of UK poverty

Find your local parliamentary candidates ➡️whocanivotefor.co.uk
and use our template letter ➡️ bit.ly/ifan-candidate…

The Prime Minister has finally called the #GeneralElection2024 - Britain's unconscionable #poverty crisis and its impact must be every candidate's first priority... #CashFirst

Latest figures from IFAN show relentless increases in demand and worrying capacity concerns. From Nov 23-Jan 24 over 98% of organisations supported people who had not asked for help before and 3/4 had seen need increases compared to the same 3-month period last year. IFAN

1/3 Every year the The Trussell Trust releases data showing catastrophic increases in need and every year we say the same - these devastating figures represent the very tip of the iceberg. The support of 1,000s of other food aid providers is not measured in this data and what's more

Voted for Sadiq Khan. At the food bank, have seen so many times the vital difference free school meals make to children in poverty. The thought of these going is worrying.

This is such an awful decision. It needs to be reviewed ASAP as Dr Rosena Allin-Khan outlines

On reflection I don’t think the Conservatives should return Hester’s money.
Instead they should have to print on every leaflet and show at the beginning of every political broadcast.

‘ Brought to you courtesy of the man who wants black women MP’s shot’

Distributing unconditional cash payments is “the most effective, most efficient way” of dealing with poverty…Absolutely Rory Stewart In the UK and overseas IFAN Greater Manchester Poverty Action The Trussell Trust LoriHughes #CashFirst foodaidnetwork.org.uk/infographics

As Sabine Goodwin from IFAN rightly points out here, the 6 month household support fund extension is just a drop in the ocean.
bigissue.com/opinion/househ…

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”
— Margaret Atwood

Happy #IWD , everyone.

Our latest figures show just how perilous the situation is for people facing hardship as well as overstretched food banks. A six-month extension of the #HouseholdSupportFund is too little, too late and falls far short of what is needed➡️ bit.ly/3wP1KFi #SaveCrisisSupport

Our The Trussell Trust verdict on the Chancellor's #Budget2024
The Good: welcome action to extend Household Support Fund & reduce burden of debt deductions from Universal Credit.
The Bad: short-term sticking plasters, no long-term solutions... 1/3

My The Guardian story: Millions of people – including one in five families with children – have gone hungry or skipped meals in recent weeks because they could not regularly afford to buy groceries, finds The Food Foundation food insecurity tracker theguardian.com/society/2024/f…

Important piece by Sabine Goodwin. The Household Support Fund provides a tiny, yet vital, safety line for dark days when there's no food or heating. When this goes the consequences will be stark.

NEW: Not only are Universal Credit claimants twice as likely to be sanctioned as before the pandemic...

...but now it turns the length of those sanctions has risen too

My report for the Big Issue on the figures showing how sanctions are getting harsher 👇bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

More than 8 out of 10 of the councils that responded to a Local Government Association (LGA) survey say that financial hardship has increased in their areas just as vital local funding used to support vulnerable households is due to end. #SaveCrisisSupport
local.gov.uk/about/news/pre…

So sad to read the news about Derek Draper. I was lucky to be coached by him in a previous job.

He was so kind, insightful, and funny. What a loss. Thoughts with his family #ripderek