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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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