Tag: Speaking Truth to Power

New toolkit: Hosting a regional anti-poverty roundtable

Our new roundtable guide will help churches or dioceses to host productive regional events We’ve published a new resource for churches and dioceses who would like to start constructive regional conversations about tackling poverty. Too often in society, we hear

Four people behind a desk, looking at the camera. Two are standing; two sitting.

Activists work to shape policies of the future

Change happens when people come together to make it happen. Activists with experience of poverty have been doing just that, with three UK universities. Members of the Speaking Truth To Power panel took part in a national event at London

Speaking Truth to Power panelists meet with minister Stephen Timms

Meeting the minister

Four community campaigners supported by Church Action on Poverty have met with a Government minister in London, to call for a new approach to working with people in hardship.

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

The Halifax Unity building, with a Neighbourhood Voices logo on top

Halifax voices: on housing, hope and scandalous costs

This Neighbourhood Voices story comes from West Yorkshire We’re in Halifax. Queen’s Road to be precise – in a former betting shop that is now home to Halifax Unity, a group seeking to co-create a vibrant, diverse and resilient community,

Jo Seddon at St Leonard's in Bootle

Building hopes and dreams in Bootle

“What drives me is people and community. I am passionate about equality and want to see that here in Linacre ward.” Jo outside St Leonard’s Youth and Community Centre in Bootle All over the UK, tenacious and compassionate people are