This week’s Covid-19 guest blog post comes from Alison Briggs. Alison is currently a 2nd year PhD research student in the department of Geography in the School of Environment, Education and Development at the University of Manchester. Her research explores Read more…
Having postponed the Life on the Breadline Conference: Faith-Based Activism in Austerity Britain back in March 2020 due to Covid-19, we pleased to share that the conference will now be online on 11th September 2020 9.30am to 12.40pm BST. The Read more…
On 23rd June 2020 at the online ENUF UK conference on food and poverty we hosted a workshop ‘Questioning the role of religious faith in UK food provision’. In this blog post we – Stephanie Denning (Coventry University, Life on Read more…
This week’s guest blog post during Covid-19 comes from Val Barron is a community practitioner with Communities Together Durham and a William Temple Scholar. Val writes: Sitting here reflecting on the first day of the excellent ENUF food and poverty Read more…
This week in our series of guest blog posts we hear from Jasmine Le Ny from TLG on how their Make Lunch programme is adapting to help families during the Covid-19 pandemic: It feels like there is something new for Read more…
Our next guest blog post during Covid-19 comes from Suzanne Vernon Yorke, a Church of England priest in London. She shares with us her experience of being a priest in a pandemic: Who, where, what am I? I’m a vicar Read more…
This week our guest blog post comes from Rebecca Stockman who works with YMCA St Paul’s Group in delivering Merton Winter Night Shelter. Rebecca writes: In Merton, a multi-faith, grassroots winter night shelter, MWNS, has been running and growing since Read more…
The next in our series of guest blog posts during Covid-19 comes from Naomi Maynard, a food pantry volunteer in Liverpool. Naomi writes: On 6th December 2019 St George’s Everton Your Local Pantry opened its doors for the first time, Read more…
The fourth of our guest blog posts during Covid-19 comes from Hannah Deakin, a disability blogger and activist. Hannah writes: Coronavirus or Covid-19. A word that until a couple of months ago nobody had heard of, except maybe as Corona Read more…
This week the third in our series of guest blog posts during Covid-19 comes from a volunteer at Citizens Advice in Surrey. Dinah writes: Millions unable to go to work. People unable to pay their rent. Limited access to supermarkets. Read more…