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Living Wage Edinburgh
Back in September 2020, when we published our final report, A Just Capital, we called on Edinburgh’s employers, Trade Unions, social enterprises, and public sector bodies to come together in a new alliance to make Edinburgh a Living Wage City. Today (16 November) on...
It’s time to Discover!
In our next Challenge Poverty Week guest blog, Linda Lees, Lifelong Learning Strategic Manager at the City of Edinburgh Council, provides an insight into the innovative Discover! Summer 2021 programme to help address holiday hunger, and so much more. Set up to...
Youth Employment
With thanks to Kate Kelman, Capital City Partnership, for this latest guest blog for Challenge Poverty Week Youth unemployment rates may never again be as dramatic as they were when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s when there was often over 5000 young people at a...
An overview of the Annual Report 2021
Further information on the key elements of the report are provided in our fourth blog for Challenge Poverty Week Yesterday (5 October), Councillors on the City of Edinburgh Council’s Policy and Sustainability Committee reviewed the first annual progress report on...
Citizen’s Voices – End Poverty Edinburgh
The good reception of the End Poverty Edinburgh deputation at Committee yesterday warrants the following Challenge Poverty Week Blog in their own words. End Poverty Edinburgh is an independent group of citizens established in 2020 to raise awareness of poverty in...
Welfare Rights Advice for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions
With thanks to Mark Upward, Advice Services Manager at the City of Edinburgh Council, for our second guest blog in Challenge Poverty Week. Poverty and disability are unfortunately intertwined and ill-health can hugely damage a household’s life chances and...
Lifting Neighbourhoods Together
In the first of our Challenge Poverty Week guest blogs we hear about Community Renewal's LNT initiative and the difference it can make to people's lives. CR:LNT is an initiative funded by the National Lottery Community Fund that seeks to tackle poverty and...
Let’s All Work Together to Ensure Enough Truly ‘Affordable’ Housing in Edinburgh. Part One – New Social Housing Supply
In the August 2021 edition of Tenants Voice, Craig Sanderson, former Chief Executive of Link Housing and member of the Edinburgh Poverty Commission wrote about poverty in Edinburgh and what can be done to overcome this. One of the most devastating causes of poverty in...
Empowering Neighbourhoods
In this insightful guest blog Bridie Ashrowan considers the ambitious cross sector initiatives to eliminate poverty in the city. In late 2020, Edinburgh’s Poverty Commission reported to the city, live on-line. It felt like a powerful responsibility when I was invited...
Let’s end poverty – a call to action from End Poverty Edinburgh
Have you seen the Ken Loach film ‘I Daniel Blake’? It’s not a film you could forget. It tells the story of Daniel Blake, living on benefits due to ill-health, who befriends a young woman struggling to support herself and her young son on a very tight...
Holiday Hunger – Discover!
In the first of a new blog series highlighting positive work to address the Commission’s actions, Brenda Black of Edinburgh Community Food looks at an aspect of food insecurity. For four years, Edinburgh Community Food (ECF) has partnered with City of Edinburgh...
Council Budget focuses on poverty
Overview On 18 February 2021, Elected Members of the City of Edinburgh Council approved, at their Annual Budget, that over £1 billion be spent in the Budget in the next year to deliver services across communities in Edinburgh. This is the first Budget published since...