David Price and Bob Rae from Sheffield Church Action on Poverty report on the recent Civic Breakfast event. A host of hidden problems facing initiatives to reduce rough sleeping on Sheffield’s streets have been uncovered at an event, organised by
Bob Rae reports on Sheffield Church Action on Poverty’s annual pilgrimage Anti-poverty campaigners in the Sheffield neighbourhoods of Firvale, Wincobank and Firth Park are calling for major improvement in the help provided for people struggling to find work, and for free face-to-face advice
16th annual pilgrimage Saturday 11 October, 2025 Hear about local issues and responses, as we walk and pray together Gather: 9am, St Cuthbert’s Church, Barnsley Road, Sheffield (opposite the Northern General Hospital) for a 9:30am start. Visit: St Cuthbert’s Church,
A report from an event held by Church Action on Poverty’s Sheffield group on 29 May 2025
Broomhall Centre, Broomspring Lane, SheffieldThursday 29 May 2025, 7:30pm – 9:30pm Churches across Sheffield are being asked to take a long hard look at the support they provide for low-income communities. Church Action on Poverty in Sheffield is responding to
12 venues, hundreds of visitors, wonderful feedback, and now a spin-off… it’s fair to say the Dreams & Realities tour has been a success! “It has been amazing experience,” says the artist, Stephen Martin. “I’ve met some really interesting people,
Members of the Sheffield Church Action on Poverty 2024 Urban Poverty Pilgrimage prepare to set off. Sheffield Central Labour MP Abtisam Mohamed has urged the Government to find ways to reduce inequality by increasing financial support for low-income households and
Joi our local group and hear about local issues and responses to
them as we walk and pray together
Sheffield Church Action on Poverty’s first Civic Breakfast since Covid has heard that around 120,000 people in Sheffield are living in poverty, homelessness is the worst it has ever been, and city food banks could collapse if demand continues to
God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. ———— Revd Dr Martin Luther King ———— Report’s purpose This report is to be submitted to an Annual General Meeting, to be
