Category: Opinion and insight

PM responds to the Let’s End Poverty letters

People with first-hand experience of poverty wrote to the Prime Minister urging him to change the Government’s approach… and received an immediate response. The Dear Prime Minister project was part of the Let’s End Poverty campaign, and involved 15 people writing to

A collage, showing a megaphone graphic, a City of York logo, and a screenshot of a story headed: "What I learnt from four months in York's homeless system"

Unheard no more: Story project brings hope for change

Five people with experience of complex poverty have been speaking up to press for change, as part of an exciting collaboration in York. Church Action on Poverty worked with the independent media outlet YorkMix and with a local group called

Our use of social media: an update

In recent years, social media networks have become less useful as a way of having conversations, sharing messages and mobilising people to act for change. In August 2024, lies spread on social media played a key role in sparking racist