Poverty

Alderman Niree McMorris, Jacqueline Gallagher and Bernie Heery pictured before the Advice North West AGM last week.

Jackie Gallagher flags ‘cost of living crisis’ as Advice NW fields 22k queries

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

Clockwise from top left: Elected representatives Paul Gallagher, Rory Farrell, Gary Donnelly, Shaun Harkin, Niree McMorris and Aisling Hutton.

9,000 children in poverty a damning indictment of failure - reps

Bernadette McAliskey.

Bernadette McAliskey to speak at ‘Poverty is a Political Choice’ event

Staff from the North West Methodist Mission Men's Hostel.

Methodist Mission marks World Mental Health Day in Derry

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

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

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
Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused Tories of ‘blocking’ her Free School Meals For All bill after its second reading in Parliament was rescheduled on Friday (January 20).
Ethan Evans

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

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

Councillor Sandra Duffy, Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council hosted a public rally in Guildhall Square on Saturday to highlight the Cost of Living Crisis. Picture Martin McKeown. 24.09.22

Derry Cost of Living rally calls on government to take action

Sinead Quinn speaking at a rally in Derry earlier this month.

Derry Against Fuel Poverty to hold rally in Derry on Saturday

Niall McCarroll

Trades Council chair Niall McCarroll urges solidarity with striking Derry worker...

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

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

Health Minister Robin Swann

Robin Swann: Poverty is the basis for Derry health inequalities and must be addr...

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey pictured on the Derry Walls recently.

New Minister to prioritise social homes and welfare

Universal Credit is forcing people into '˜Dickensian' conditions: MLA

People Before Profit election workers Shaun Harkin, Jim Doherty and Sha Gillespie pictured in the PBP office in Foyle Street Derry. Eamonn McCann is running as a PBP MLA candidate in the Assembly elections on 5th May next. DER1716GS007

OPINION: PBP with the millions, not the millionaires

Video: Richard Moore marks 20 year mile stone in mission against injustice

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