Austerity Proof?

In this blog post our Life on the Breadline Co-Investigator, Robert Beckford, reflects on black churches and austerity in the UK. Robert writes… Are black churches austerity proof? That is to say, immune from the politics of government austerity? Much depends on what we mean by ‘austerity proof,’ but I Read more…

Voluntary sector responses to food poverty: responding in the short-term and working for longer-term change

How can voluntary sector responses to food poverty respond in the short-term to people’s need, and work for longer-term change? Are responses a sticking plaster without addressing the causes of food poverty? Life on the Breadline’s Research Fellow, Stephanie Denning, engages with these questions in a paper recently published in Read more…