Politics is a key theme on the Life on the Breadline project
We are pleased to share with you the Life on the Breadline Anti-Poverty Charter – find out more below, then follow the link to read, share, and sign-up to the Charter. What is the Anti-Poverty Charter? A reflective action-oriented resource intended to help churches to tackle poverty and inequality in Read more…
Following our Life on the Breadline Report for Policymakers which was published at the start of July 2021, we are pleased to publish two policy briefings which accompany the report: The first briefing makes recommendations for how policymakers and Church leaders can work together to address poverty in the UK. The Read more…
Last week the Life on the Breadline photographic exhibition launched in the Chapel of Unity at Coventry Cathedral. The exhibition features photographs from our Life on the Breadline grassroot case studies in Birmingham, London, and Manchester which challenge the way we think about people’s experience of poverty in the UK Read more…
The Life on the Breadline end of project conference took place on 24th-25th June 2021. The conference was the culmination of three years of research into how Christians are responding to poverty in the UK. Resources from the conference – including videos of the presentations – are now available on Read more…
This is the first of a series of blog posts launching reports and outputs as the Life on the Breadline research reaches its conclusion this summer. We are pleased to share that the Life on the Breadline Report for Policymakers in the UK has been published and is now available Read more…
This week we have launched the first Life on the Breadline podcast, hosted by the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR) at Coventry University. Project researchers, Chris Shannahan and Stephanie Denning, spoke to CTPSR’s Gwenith Cross to discuss the research that has been undertaken on Life on the Read more…
Poverty in the UK continues to rise, making it more important than ever to understand lived experiences of poverty. Life on the Breadline researcher, Stephanie Denning, has recently published a paper in the journal Antipode that responds to a gap in understanding collective experiences of poverty by analysing the atmospheres Read more…
We are pleased to announce that the Life on the Breadline end of project conference will take place online on 24th and 25th June 2021. The conference is the culmination of three years of research by the Life on the Breadline research team – Chris Shannahan, Robert Beckford, Peter Scott Read more…
During the summer of 2020 the Life on the Breadline blog hosted 10 guest blog posts on responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. 6 months later we’re re-visiting for updates with several of our guest writers. First is from Paul Wright, a Street Connector Mentor on the Firs and Bromford estate Read more…
On 21st October 2020 the House of Commons voted against extending holiday food provision for children who receive Free School Meals into the school holidays. This followed campaigning by a wide number of charities and by Marcus Rashford who started this petition to end child food poverty which has been Read more…