Annual review 2018-19
Read how we loosened the grip of UK poverty in 2018-19.
Why End UK Hunger?
Read our new report, laying out the evidence supporting our call for urgent action to End Hunger in the UK.
In 2018, Church Action on Poverty’s report for End Hunger UK Step Up to the Plate called for comprehensive government thinking on responding to hunger in the UK. Household food insecurity is now being measured in the UK – but comprehensive policy responses are still lacking.
Our new report Why End UK Hunger?, published in November 2019, emphasises again why action is so urgently needed.
We worked with the University of Sheffield, King’s College London and ENUF to produce the report. Edited by leading food poverty experts Dr Hannah Lambie-Mumford and Dr Rachel Loopstra, Why End UK Hunger? newly brings together leading thinkers to make renewed arguments for why it is so important to address the root causes of hunger on the basis of seven key ‘cases’:
- the moral case;
- the child’s case;
- the health case;
- the secure income case;
- the human rights case;
- the political case;
- and the public opinion case.
This report supports End Hunger UK’s new goal: to persuade all UK political parties to develop serious action plans to halve household food insecurity by 2025, and to make good on our existing commitment within the Sustainable Development Goal to end hunger by 2030.
SPARK newsletter autumn 2019
Click to download the latest issue of SPARK,our newsletter for supporters of Church Action on Poverty.
Dangerous Stories -‘a complex course for complex times and a complex faith’
We just received a wonderful review of Dangerous Stories, Church Action on Poverty’ series of Bible studies on Jesus’ parables.
Transforming poverty through the silver screen
We’re pleased to share this article from Lichfield Diocese about Transforming Poverty, a new course which we published in February 2019.
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Transforming Poverty
Six sessions for churches and house groups: use the film 'I, Daniel Blake' to engage with God’s heart for poverty in your community.
Transforming Poverty is a course by Revd Gayle Greenway, a curate in the Diocese of Lichfield.
In six sessions, the course will bring church or house group members together to talk, think and pray about the struggles that local people, maybe including yourselves, have today or have had in the past because of having little money. Alongside this, it will help you look at how the Bible and your faith in Jesus guide you to respond to these issues.
The course uses Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake to inspire conversations and apply scriptural insights to everyday life issues relating to socioeconomic deprivation.
If you would like a printed copy of the course, just email us and ask.
We know that in most parishes there are people whose low income makes choices between heat, light, food and health a daily challenge. This course will help people to talk together about these things, and hopefully to move beyond talk to prayer, and to action and loving sharing.
———— Canon Dr Christina Baxter, St John’s College
The truth about poverty?
Last year, we took members of several Poverty Truth Commissions to the Greenbelt festival for the first time. It was an exciting and inspiring experience – especially the opportunity for us to reflect together with Clare McBeath, our friend from the Centre for Theology and Justice. Clare collated and shared these theological reflections on the experience of being part of Poverty Truth Commissions.
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Church Action on Poverty North East annual report 2019
The 2019 annual report of our local group in the North East.
Different light: a sermon for Church Action on Poverty Sunday
Our Director Niall Cooper recently shared this sermon on a visit to a church in Birmingham. We invite you to draw from it if you are preaching on Church Action on Poverty Sunday, 3 March 2019.
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