Tag: Local groups

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

Politics, self and drama in our responses to scripture

Chris Hughes, a Catholic priest and member of Church Action on Poverty North East, explores how the parable of the Good Samaritan can suggest different ways for the church to respond to poverty. Below is an example of how scripture

Making the Economy work for Everyone

The report from a 2021 project of Church Action on Poverty North East ‘Making the Economy work for Everyone’ was the topic of an event at St Vincent’s SVP Centre in Newcastle on 25 September 2021. 30 representatives of communities

Sheffield Church Action on Poverty Update, March 2021

The newsletter of our local group in Sheffield Find out more about Church Action on Poverty Sheffield here. Download resource Annual reviews Annual review 2019–20 Download our annual review and accounts Download annual review Annual reviews Annual review 2019–20 Read

Right-wing and Left-wing Christian Approaches to Poverty

Nick Jowett, a member of Church on Action on Poverty in Sheffield, writes on differing Christian approaches to tackling poverty. It would be right to assume that all Christians are equally concerned about issues of poverty and inequality in society.