Poverty

Rev Dr Norman Hamilton OBE, Presbyterian Church

Thought for the week: God's people must have compassion

Northern Ireland Communities Minister Gordon Lyons

Lyons hails ‘zero-tolerance’ approach to benefit fraud

Letters to editor

Letter: Become a Secret Santa, and help to ensure a child has a hot meal

Lea Manor school in Luton will have uniforms donated by easyJet.

easyJet is turning thousands of old crew outfits into school uniforms

Children growing up in deprivation face poorer health and disrupted learning.

Dean Burke Workers Party Representative responding to Dr Tom Black’s Article ‘De...

Workers Party Youth at a planning session.

Odhrán Cassidy Workers Party Youth addresses a Party Discussion on What Causes ...

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Speaking in the university’s Whitla Hall, Mrs Clinton said: “There have been many moments in Northern Ireland’s peace journey where progress seemed difficult, when every route forward looked blocked, there seemed nowhere to go,” she said

Hillary Clinton urges NI politicians to show same ‘resolve’ as 1998 leaders

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley announces UK tour - full details

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty
Deputy chair of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson made the claims during a discussion in the House of Commons about free school meals
Patrick Hollis

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament

Commissioner for Children and Young People Koulla Yaisouma.

Children in Northern Ireland ‘deserve better’ – children’s commissioner

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

24% of children in Northern Ireland have been living in poverty for the past ten years. Benefit cuts and Covid are exacerbating the situation.

Real damage to NI children’s health as one in four live on breadline

A queue outside a jobless centre in England before the pandemic. Deaths from unemployment and poverty caused by lockdown are often viewed as just a statistic but it is estimated that the 2008/9 financial crisis led to a million people contracting chronic health problems

Side effects of lockdown cure for Covid could be worse than the disease itself

Michelle O'Neill and Arlene Foster

First Minister Arlene Foster told SF deputy Michelle O’Neill not to reveal poten...

Portadown town centre courtesy of Google

PSNI warning over fake beggars in NI town

Speakers at a Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) event to discuss poverty in Northern Ireland at the Ormeau Baths, Belfast

Progress made in cutting poverty in NI has stalled, panel event hears
There are 370,000 people in Northern Ireland who live in poverty, but in some categories of the population poverty levels have dropped, new research has found.
By The Newsroom

Northern Ireland is letting down many people despite its wealth and educational reputation says the Rowntree Trust

Almost one in three adults jobless as war on poverty sits stalled for a decade

Tesco Portadown have donated over Â£3000 worh of food to Craigavon Area Foodbank. Pictured at the handoverof some of the goods are from left, Anita Hamilton, stock control, Jonny Craig, trade manager and Stanley Harkness, food bank volunteer.INPT38-212.

Foodbank received 1,100 referrals in 2017

The report said less than 28% of babies at six weeks receive any breast milk, the lowest level in the UK

One in four Northern Ireland children '˜living in poverty'

Where HIV is better than cancer and children die of hunger

Jim Clarken, Chief Executive of Oxfam Ireland.

Picture by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Oxfam Ireland: When companies do not pull their weight in tax, other people have...

Newly elected MLA Clare Bailey .
Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

'˜I could have ended up sleeping on the streets'

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