Great talk from CarolBeauty explaining the different types of scandals in the workhouse and how they were dealt with at the time. Raising many issues within the workhouse #workhouselives

How can you plan family life when you don't know from one week to the next the hours you'll be working? Such important research from Living Wage Foundation today on notice of shifts. livingwage.org.uk/news/almost-tw… A short thread... 1/3

My The Guardian story: Food not the answer, says UK's biggest food bank charity @TrussellTrust, as it gives out 2.5m food parcels amid "historic" levels of need theguardian.com/society/2021/a… @tr

Decades of media stigma have led to an environment where people don't believe they deserve the help they need.

My @Guardian story: Gavin Williamson's "root and branch" review of children's social care comes under fire as ex-government advisor warns it ignores the role of poverty and funding cuts theguardian.com/society/2021/a…

Join us on 11 May for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Natalie Carter will be discussing Writing in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here: ntu.ac.uk/about-us/event…

'The stigma that thrives in secrecy': great new guest blog from Dr Sophie Negus CRESR SHU on complex feelings of shame from working #benefit claimants - on our site now bit.ly/3h2eHlr

The UK government has published guidance on new immigration rules, which makes rough sleeping grounds for enforced removal – regardless of whether someone is living in the UK legally. Together with 63 other orgs, we're urging the Govt. to scrap these new rules immediately. (1/2)

⭐ Sir Stephen Fry ⭐encourages you to visit Thackray Museum of Medicine 👉 We hope you heed his advice... after all, it's actual Stephen Fry! 🎟 We're OPEN! thackraymuseum.co.uk

Join us on 8 June for our next free talk in our current series Workhouse Lives. Lewis Darwen (Roehampton) will be discussing Work in the Workhouse. This event is open to all. Please book here: ntu.ac.uk/about-us/event…

THIS WEEKEND! Llanfyllin’s Workhouse opens after 18 months with the best of British Arts & Crafts. FREE ENTRY / £3 cars. Shropshire Star Anwen Parry Powys Countryside The Workhouse Network Ysgol Llanfyllin Llanfyllin News @Arts_Connection

Join us 9am tomorrow for #SPA2021 symposium on attitudes to #benefits, chaired by our own @BenBaumberg w team presentations on deservingness & fulough Prof Lisa Scullion Daniel Edmiston Prof Jo Ingold Kate Summers David Robertshaw David Young

Save the date! Objects of Poverty Conference Programme - 27 August 2021. Keynotes Julie Hardwick/[email protected] and Caroline Nielsen Booking to open in the next couple of weeks. objectsofpoverty.wordpress.com

📢NEW JOB ALERT: Do you want to help oversee the growth of our network, and lead our approach to the participation of people with experience of poverty? Then apply to be our new Communities and Network Manager! ⏳Deadline: 9th August Full details: povertyalliance.org/about-us/recru…

An exciting and long-anticipated opening of the Master’s House open to all on 14th August. The Workhouse Network Historic England Cadw Visit Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Ysgol Llanfyllin Llanfyllin News

In response to our FOI request, the UK Government have refused to publish their analysis of the impact on poverty of the planned £20 Universal Credit cut. They say it is not in the public interest. But that cannot be right. We all deserve to know. heraldscotland.com/politics/19449…

We’ve been a lot of things to many people over the past year... AND now we get to be even more to our community and visitors as we celebrate being shortlisted for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2021! Art Fund #museumoftheyear

UK Government ministers have a choice. They can make the biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the birth of the modern welfare state, deepening poverty for many. Or they can do the right thing, #KeepTheLifeline and give people the stability they need.

At today’s official Master’s House reopening, Dr Paul Carter tells us about the importance of Y Dolydd - Llanfyllin’s Workhouse as his favourite in the U.K. The Workhouse Network Cadw The National Archives @LlanfyllinTown The National Lottery Community Fund Cymru