📢Add your voices to the campaign to ensure no one has to go without the essentials.
Find out how you can build support for Guarantee #OurEssentials in Scotland 👇

Free Saturday afternoon? Pop along to thefrasercentre for The Wee Green Festival

#thanks The Trussell Trust Scotland & IFAN for such an inspiring day at #CashFirstCommunities
Great to hear about the work already happening & ideas for how #cashfirst can become the normalised response
'...momentum is growing and change will happen from the ground up'

🚨Poverty Stats out on Thursday morning🚨

Have had this on my banner for a while but this week will show if it is nearly too late for the interim targets.

The message is still true but we need ambition and urgency.

SG need to show it is genuinely their first priority.

What makes a #cashfirstcommunity ? Interesting to compare and contrast activity happening across Scotland

The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN

Wishing we could attend all the workshops at todays #CashFirstCommunities
The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN

Looking forward to listening, sharing experience & learning from everyone attending The Trussell Trust Scotland and IFAN #CashFirstCommunities today

Last year nearly 4 million people in the UK experienced destitution, including 1 million children. The number of people experiencing destitution has more than doubled in the last 5 years.

❌ A 2p cut in National Insurance will not help those who need it the most #Budget2024

Thanks Bylines Scotland for the chance to discuss today’s budget and why it is a long way from helping us end the need for food banks

Today, the UK government failed to fully address the severe hardship affecting millions of people across the UK.

️🗣️ Our Director of Policy, Research and Impact, Helen Barnard shared our response to today’s Spring Budget. ⤵️ #Budget2024

The Chancellor wants growth, but the reality is growing inequality. Today’s budget failed to deliver on the long term structural change that’s so desperately needed to provide stability and opportunity for everyone. Right now far too many face this issues I describe ⬇️

Raising Children With Confidence is back!
2 hours for 6 weeks starting Monday 15th April at 7pm, learn the latest evidence-based findings and research to explain the development of emotional health and wellbeing. Free for Dads, Mums and Carers.

Info 👉 lght.ly/m4b84fc

Wondering why we're talking #Stigma at our next Conversation Cafe? Listen to 'The Power of We' by redeyefeenix inspired by his work on the Josefina R. panel exploring stigma, power and poverty
'Be with, Share with, Stand strong with each other...'
#thanks for putting it into words

'We want to see a UK government making better political choices that make sure that everybody has something to hope for. Seeing their day-to-day life getting easier not harder'
Hear what Polly Jones Head of The Trussell Trust Scotland has to say on #bbcgms 0735 ahead of today's budget

Don't let stigma stop you asking for help or taking part.
Pop along for a cuppa next week & join the conversation helping to make sure that local services are aware of the difficulties stigma causes – & then make sure that services are reacting sensitively to that