Life on the Breadline lead researcher, Chris Shannahan, reflects on transforming structural injustice ahead of the workshop on this theme on 13th September 2019. Dietrich Bonhoeffer famously suggested that, ‘The Church is not simply called to bandage up the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice but to drive Read more…
What are the relationships between austerity and the pressing and depressing issue of serious youth violence (knife crime)? What are churches doing to address the cites of struggle, both the ‘ground war’ to protect vulnerable people, and the ‘air war’ or campaigning and advocating for structural change? To get a Read more…
A participatory workshop challenging and reflecting on the Church’s aim to transform unjust structures of society in austerity Britain What are the different forms of poverty in the UK and how do they relate to each other? How can the Church be an effective agent for change in an age Read more…
Volunteers are playing a crucial role in responding to UK food poverty. Religious faith can be key in motivating people to volunteer, but how do volunteers persist in volunteering? In my PhD research at the University of Bristol I explored to this question whilst running a TLG MakeLunch project responding Read more…
The Life on the Breadline team are pleased to announce a one-day workshop challenging and reflecting on the Church’s fourth mark of mission: “To transform unjust structures of society, to challenge violence of every kind and pursue peace and reconciliation” The participatory workshop will revolve around small group discussion of Read more…
On 2nd May 2019 over twenty professionals, practitioners, experts by experience and academics gathered at the University of Warwick for the first Midlands Food Security Network event. The Midlands Food Security Workshop aimed to bring people together from across the region to understand what the current food poverty issues are Read more…
This week we launched a new Life on the Breadline project resource – an illustrated austerity timeline. The timeline has been developed by project Research Fellow, Stephanie Denning, with input from participants at the National Poverty Consultation with Church Action on Poverty in November 2018. In 2008 there was a Read more…
On 12th December 2018 a workshop ‘Care after austerity: What next?’ took place at the University of Oxford to conclude Jennie Middleton’s Wellcome Trust funded project on care and austerity in terms of new parents in Oxford. Life on the Breadline Research Fellow, Stephanie Denning, attended the workshop. The workshop began Read more…
Life on the Breadline Research Fellow, Stephanie Denning, attended Street Games’ Fit and Fed holiday hunger roundtable in Parliament on 4th December 2018. Here Stephanie shares her reflections on the day. Holiday hunger is when children do not have enough to eat in the school holidays. The APPG on Hunger Read more…
On 8-9th November 2018 the Life on the Breadline project team attended the National Poverty Consultation in Manchester, organised with project partner Church Action on Poverty. On the second day of the consultation Chris Shannahan, Peter Scott and Stephanie Denning led a workshop to introduce the Life on the Breadline Read more…