Poverty

Changemaker Ella Daish launches online plastic-free period product donations
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Changemaker Ella Daish launches online plastic-free period product donations

Scottish Parliament votes in favour of historic period products bill
Monica Lennon Edinburgh period poverty rally
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Scottish Parliament votes in favour of historic period products bill

Life expectancy stalling “a sign that society has stopped improving”
life expectancy
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Life expectancy stalling “a sign that society has stopped improving”

Families in council tax debt have just £7 left at the end of the month
uk poverty cost of living crisis
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Families in council tax debt have just £7 left at the end of the month

Scottish ministers back bill to make right to free period products law
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Scottish ministers back bill to make right to free period products law

How The Big Issue is putting period poverty on the agenda
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How The Big Issue is putting period poverty on the agenda

Monica Lennon: We must put right to free period products into law
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Monica Lennon: We must put right to free period products into law

EXCLUSIVE: Big Issue and Hey Girls team up on period stigma busting new mag
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EXCLUSIVE: Big Issue and Hey Girls team up on period stigma busting new mag

Breaking grip of poverty is key to “levelling up Britain”, says JRF
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Breaking grip of poverty is key to “levelling up Britain”, says JRF

Five million Brits live without a cooker, fridge, freezer or washing machine
appliance poverty
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Five million Brits live without a cooker, fridge, freezer or washing machine

More than 1,000 food parcels given out daily to struggling Scottish families
Food bank Trussell Trust
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More than 1,000 food parcels given out daily to struggling Scottish families

Investigating Britain's Christmas holiday hunger scandal
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Investigating Britain's Christmas holiday hunger scandal

The Tory manifesto could push child poverty to a 60-year high
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The Tory manifesto could push child poverty to a 60-year high

Just a third of London councils have social rent home planning targets
uk poverty cost of living crisis
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Just a third of London councils have social rent home planning targets

Professor Green is centre stage in the fight against food poverty
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Professor Green is centre stage in the fight against food poverty

The end of the benefits freeze is not an “income boost”
Coins
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The end of the benefits freeze is not an “income boost”

Advertising helps fund Big Issue’s mission to end poverty
Three million households are struggling to keep up with water payments
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Three million households are struggling to keep up with water payments

Workers still hit by 'lost decade' in UK earnings
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Workers still hit by 'lost decade' in UK earnings

Only 5 of 33 London boroughs helped children stay fed during the holidays
cans and boxes of food sit on a shelf. children in poverty are being offered tiny amounts in parcels sent to replace free school meals
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Only 5 of 33 London boroughs helped children stay fed during the holidays

Pet foodbank launches to help poverty-stricken owners
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Pet foodbank launches to help poverty-stricken owners