Cost of living crisis: is compassion enough?
The 2022 Annual General Meeting of our local group in North East England
Thursday 20 October
5.30pm
(Registration & refreshments from 5pm)
St Joseph’s Centre, High West Street, Gateshead NE8 1LX (opposite Gateshead Metro Interchange)
Voices of experience from:
- Gateshead Poverty Truth Commission
- North of Tyne Poverty Truth Commission
Keynote speaker: Anna Rowlands (author of Towards a Politics of Communion:
Catholic Social Teaching in Dark Times)

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