Poverty is a key theme on the Life on the Breadline project
The Life on the Breadline Lent course is now available to read, download, and share – ready for Lent 2022 or for use at other times of the year, for example in church home groups. This Lent course has been developed from the 3 years of Life on the Breadline 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…
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…
Life on the Breadline is a challenging new exhibition being premiered in Coventry Cathedral this summer Date: 3rd July 2021 to 28th July 2021 Time: 10am to 4pm from Monday to Saturday, and from 12.30pm to 3pm on Sundays Where: Chapel of Unity, Coventry Cathedral The exhibition features photographs from our Life on 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…
The next in our series of ‘6 months on’ guest blog posts comes from Rebecca Stockman who works with YMCA St Paul’s Group in delivering Merton Winter Night Shelter. Rebecca writes: I often wonder what difference it would have made to have known what an extraordinary this year was going Read more…
In the second of our guest blog series that re-visit posts from summer 2020, now in December 2020 we hear again from foodbank volunteer Bob Jefford on foodbank responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Bob writes: If Harold Wilson was around today he might well have puffed on his pipe and Read more…