Poverty is a key theme on the Life on the Breadline project
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…
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…
On 11th September 2020, over 70 people attended the online Life on the Breadline mid-project conference: Faith-based Activism in Austerity Britain. The conference addressed questions including: How has austerity impacted people in the UK? What are the implications of this for theology and faith-based social action? New resources from the Read more…
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 experiences of food insecurity in and through the relational spaces 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 the Breadline), Andy Williams (Cardiff University), Maddy Power (University of 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 conference, I am left with the same two questions that 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 2011. Just last Autumn it seemed like a daunting leap 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…
This blog post is written by Paul Wright, a Street Connector Mentor in Birmingham. He originally wrote this on the Street Connectors blog, and has kindly agreed for us to re-post it for Life on the Breadline. Paul writes: Tuesday 17th March is going to live long in my memory, when Read more…