We are grateful to Rebecca Dickson, Development Officer at the Community One Stop Shop for our second guest blog. At the Community One Stop Shop, we operate a food bank, and an employability and advice service located in Broomhouse, serving the South West of...
As part of a series of blogs in response to the Commission’s Coronavirus report Ems Harrington, Edinburgh Trust Manager, reflects on the increased need for the Trust due to the impacts of Covid 19. In 2011, The Edinburgh Trust, part of national charity Turn2us,...
Commissioner Diana Noel Paton reflects on the learning of what can be achieved when there is a will and an imperative to do so. The last few months have been a deeply worrying and distressing time for all of us in so many ways. The current crisis has hit families and...
On 19 May 2020, Edinburgh Poverty Commissioners, Betty Stevenson, Chris Kilkenny and Zoe Ferguson joined other Poverty Truth style groups in a teleconference with the Cabinet Secretary for Communities and Local Government, Aileen Campbell MSP, to discuss the...
In Commission Member Chris Kilkenny’s Twitter vlog he reflects,“It’s absolutely right and morally important that this piece of work (Coronavirus and Poverty Report) was able to take place and I’m proud to call myself an Edinburgh Poverty Commissioner.” Chris...
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