The Trussell Trust Scotland
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We believe in a future where everyone in Scotland can afford the essentials. We support a network of food banks and campaign for change. ๐
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๐ข Help us build a future where everyone can afford the essentials.
Join our online workshop for organisations and campaigners in Scotland interested in building support for Guarantee #OurEssentials in Scotland.
You can sign up here: bit.ly/EssentialsGE
Calling all Glasgow Community Food Initiatives and Cash First projects ๐
Cash First in a Community Food Setting - Study and Map Update!
Get your free tickets, lunch provided by MILK Cafรฉ
Kinning Park Complex
26 April 11-3pm
Glasgow Centre for Population Health Glasgow City HSCP eventbrite.co.uk/e/cash-first-iโฆ
It canโt be right that disabled people are more likely to be experiencing poverty in Scotland.
Read this blog from our Fraser of Allander Institute and our Senior Research Officer Laura Robertson on the additional costs of disability๐๐ป
If you live in #Fife and are looking to volunteer to help support your community, Dunfermline Foodbank are looking for volunteers in their #Cowdenbeath & #Benarty centres โคต๏ธ
This #NationalPetDay , we'd like you to meet Dixie! She's West Lothian Foodbank's cutest four-legged staff member. ๐ถ
Her job responsibilities include being cute and dishing out cuddles to the staff and volunteers in the office. ๐
๐ข Women in ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ are disproportionately impacted by rising poverty & deepening financial inequality.
Join us, Scottish Women's Aid & @stepchangecharity
for this lunchtime session โฌ
๐๏ธ 26 April. 12.00-13.30
๐ Online
๐ Book your free place here: engender.org.uk/content/eventsโฆ
Really excellent thread here from Helen Barnard on the complicated changing picture of pensioner poverty and how a 'laser focus on the triple lock doesn't help' focus minds on the change that matters.
Free and independent advocacy service VoiceAbility supports people applying for Adult Disability Payment or Child Disability Payment.
Find out more about this Scottish Government funded service at voiceability.org
โBalance of power: What powers do we need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee ?
๐๏ธ2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
๐City Halls, Glasgow
๐Reserve your place here!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/balance-of-pโฆ
Thank you Thalia for the great write up of our The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN #CashFirstCommunities event. We look forward to working with Interfaith Glasgow and the Interfaith Food Justice Network!
๐ข Today we've reached an unhappy birthday โ 7 years of families being subjected to the two-child limit to benefit payments, and being pushed into poverty.
In this election year all parties must commit to scrapping this unfair sibling tax. #AllKidsCount End Child Poverty
Our stock are very low at the moment. Over the last few months we have been busier than ever and we would appreciate if you could help us. Our service is bringing relief and dignity to people in crisis. Please get in touch on [email protected] Thank you very much! ๐
Families in the UK are facing hunger and hardship because of the two-child limit to benefit payments.
โ This isnโt right. โ
So today the End Child Poverty Coalition handed in an unhappy birthday card to mark 7 years of the two-child limit and call on Department for Work and Pensions to scrap it. โคต๏ธ
Tomorrow is an unhappy birthday, 7 years since the start of the two-child limit to benefit payments
We love birthdays ๐ but this isn't one to celebrate ๐ today we are taking this message to Department for Work and Pensions
All political parties must pledge to scrap this Sibling Tax
#AllKidsCount