Politics is a key theme on the Life on the Breadline project
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…
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. You’d think it would send people flocking to Citizens Advice. Read more…
In the second of a series of guest blog posts during Covid-19, this week we hear from foodbank volunteer Bob Jefford. Bob reflects: The pandemic has just transformed all of our lives, and the Covid-19 stats are spreading like wildfire. But dig beneath the increasing death toll and the controversies Read more…
We are pleased to share that registration is now open for the Life on the Breadline Conference: Faith-Based Activism in Austerity Britain – a one day academic conference on 30th March 2020 from the Life on the Breadline project team exploring faith-based responses to poverty and austerity. How has austerity Read more…
‘Second Class Citizens’ by Stef Benstead was recently published. Here, Stef shares her thoughts in relation to the book: Stef writes: “Second Class Citizens provides a comprehensive view of the history of the UK’s treatment of disabled people, from living with their families in agrarian communities, through monasteries, asylums, workhouses, Read more…
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…
The first animation in the Life on the Breadline research has been published – Life on the Breadline: the impact of austerity Austerity affects people’s daily lives, and is affecting UK society unequally. Austerity is not just a social problem, it is a spiritual issue. Has the Church responded effectively Read more…
This week in the Church Times, Life on the Breadline’s Research Fellow Stephanie Denning, has written about the problems with Universal Credit and made suggestions of how it could be improved. Stephanie’s reflections come from time spent at the B30 Trussell Trust Foodbank – one of the six case studies Read more…
On 13th September 2019, over 50 people gathered at Coventry University for the Life on the Breadline workshop on transforming structural injustice – a theme explored in a previous blog post. The resources from the workshop include summaries and audio recordings from our speakers (Mike Hardy, Chris Shannahan, Robert Beckford, Read more…