Posted on 15 Feb 2019
Lucie Russell is the Director of Fair By Design, a campaign dedicated to ending the extra costs of being poor. In this blog, Lucie talks about the experiences of the ...Read More Read More
Posted on 04 Sep 2018
Jean has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, which means her joints dislocate easily and she is in a lot of pain. In this blog, she talks about the additional costs of living ...Read More Read More
Posted on 29 Sep 2017
The Dole Animators are a group of Leeds-based individuals with experience of the benefits system. In 2013 they worked with Liverpool University researcher, Dr Ruth Patrick, to make a ...Read More Read More
Posted on 30 Jul 2017
Sue is part of Dole Animators – a group of people with experience of the social security system in the UK who work together to highlight the effects of welfare reform. ...Read More Read More
Posted on 27 Oct 2016
Whose responsibility is poverty? There is a growing consensus that current narratives around poverty have failed and that a new approach is needed to create a good society – one ...Read More Read More
Posted on 20 Oct 2016
Wednesday 26th October 2016, 09.00-10.00, Jubilee Room (off Westminster Hall), Houses of Parliament. Launch of the Webb Memorial Trust’s annual New Statesman supplement How to end poverty? This has been ...Read More Read More
Posted on 28 Apr 2016
Insecurity has become pervasive. It permeates the lives not just of the marginalised but also the reasonably well off. In/security is not simply the latest political fad restricted to the chattering classes, ...Read More Read More
Posted on 14 Sep 2014
In spring 2014 the Webb Memorial Trust launched the Paul Goggins Memorial Prize. Paul Goggins MP was the Secretary of the APPG Poverty and a champion of the anti-poverty agenda in ...Read More Read More
Posted on 14 May 2014
The APPG Poverty, Webb Memorial Trust and The New Statesman hosted an event in the House of Commons on 6th May to launch a new report into Civil Society and Poverty with ...Read More Read More
Posted on 25 Nov 2013
Roundtable hosted by the APPG on Poverty and the Webb Memorial Trust in Parliament on Tuesday 19th November 2013 On November 19th MPs and members of the House of Lords came together ...Read More Read More
