Promoting understanding of historical poverty and welfare and compassion for the contemporary poor. All welfare is political. Poverty is a legacy of the past.
Join us on 6 July for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Steve King (Nottingham Trent) will be discussing Eavesdropping in Workhouses. This event is open to all. Please book here:
https://t.co/3ZjiFahGH7
At today’s official Master’s House reopening, Dr Paul Carter tells us about the importance of Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse as his favourite in the U.K. @WorkhouseNet@cadwwales@UkNatArchives @LlanfyllinTown @TNLComFundWales
UK Government ministers have a choice. They can make the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the birth of the modern welfare state, deepening poverty for many.
Or they can do the right thing, #KeepTheLifeline and give people the stability they need.
We’ve been a lot of things to many people over the past year...
AND now we get to be even more to our community and visitors as we celebrate being shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021!
@artfund#museumoftheyear
In response to our FOI request, the UK Government have refused to publish their analysis of the impact on poverty of the planned £20 Universal Credit cut.
They say it is not in the public interest. But that cannot be right. We all deserve to know.
https://t.co/e3xx9ruLZu
📢NEW JOB ALERT: Do you want to help oversee the growth of our network, and lead our approach to the participation of people with experience of poverty?
Then apply to be our new Communities and Network Manager!
⏳Deadline: 9th August
Full details: https://t.co/9WFw9DFFUE
Save the date! Objects of Poverty Conference Programme - 27 August 2021. Keynotes @DrJulieHardwick and @C_L_Nielsen Booking to open in the next couple of weeks.
https://t.co/MPmi2zP8oX
⭐ @stephenfry ⭐encourages you to visit Thackray Museum of Medicine
👉 We hope you heed his advice... after all, it's actual Stephen Fry!
🎟 We're OPEN! https://t.co/Pmu1DukRPv
Join us on 8 June for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Lewis Darwen (Roehampton) will be discussing Work in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here:
https://t.co/ZSj26Ts7bN
The UK government has published guidance on new immigration rules, which makes rough sleeping grounds for enforced removal – regardless of whether someone is living in the UK legally.
Together with 63 other orgs, we're urging the Govt. to scrap these new rules immediately. (1/2)
'The stigma that thrives in secrecy': great new guest blog from @Sophianegus@CRESR_SHU on complex feelings of shame from working #benefit claimants - on our site now https://t.co/FJdloHHpiv
My @Guardian story: Gavin Williamson's "root and branch" review of children's social care comes under fire as ex-government advisor warns it ignores the role of poverty and funding cuts https://t.co/tgd0PWWEGT
Join us on 11 May for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Natalie Carter will be discussing Writing in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here: https://t.co/sfAvORPara
My @guardian story: Tens of thousands did not claim universal credit during Covid because of fears over "scrounger" benefit shame, despite struggling financially, @DistantWelfare study finds https://t.co/xPQ16ha5te
My @guardian story: Food not the answer, says UK's biggest food bank charity @TrussellTrust, as it gives out 2.5m food parcels amid "historic" levels of need https://t.co/Z8HJdgoyxn @tr
How can you plan family life when you don't know from one week to the next the hours you'll be working?
Such important research from @LivingWageUK today on notice of shifts.
https://t.co/c0fybodjOi
A short thread... 1/3
Great talk from @carolbea explaining the different types of scandals in the workhouse and how they were dealt with at the time. Raising many issues within the workhouse #workhouselives