Our chair's article on what it means to be part of effective partnerships, working with trusted funders and importance of solidarity. IFAN Poverty Alliance SCVO tfn.scot/magazine/april…

Enormous thanks to The Gannochy Trust for awarding us multi-year funding to employ 2 staff. And extra benefit for us in accessing Funding Plus and a volunteer HR consultant to help with the process. Cranfield Trust

Food bank teams imagine running community hubs without the emergency food element. What’s critical is clear commitment from policy-makers to income-focused actions to address the poverty driving people to need food or baby banks in the first place #CashFirst IFAN

🚨We don’t do cold calls🚨

We’ve heard reports of cold calls claiming to be from a CAB adviser offering debt advice, and asking for bank details.

The Citizens Advice network in Scotland doesn’t do cold calls. This is a scam.

More advice here👇
citizensadvice.org.uk/scotland/consu…

Thanks to SCVO for inviting us to the Parlimentary reception for our #EssentialSector Amongst acknowledging how hard things are there was immense solidarity in the room. And hope. Always hope. Thanks to Paul O’Kane MSP 🇺🇦 for hosting.

Looking forward to hosting these Get Inspired meetings again this year ahead of #CPW24 😀

Anyone who has been before will know I like a wee chat so come along and chat all things #ChallengePoverty with me!

Invaluable data on #foodinsecurity , food bank & social supermarket use in England, Wales & Northern Ireland released today Food Standards Agency ifanuk.org/4aMeTO5
As ever extraordinary gap between scale of food bank use (and social supermarket use) and wider #foodinsecurity #CashFirst

We’re thrilled to be recruiting for an Associate to join our team.

If you’re a specialist in Gender-Based Budgeting, and working with inter-generational community groups, we’d love to hear from you.

Check out all the info here: makingrightsreal.org.uk/call-for-gende…

Would you enjoy supporting local families at a weekly playgroup as a Parent & Toddler Volunteer for Broke Not Broken?

Find this and other amazing opportunities on Be the Change, your new local volunteering platform:

bethechangepk.org.uk/o/Broke-Not-Br…

❓Balance of power: What powers do we need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee ?

🗓️2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
📍City Halls, Glasgow

👇Join us with Prof Nicola McEwen. Reserve your place here!

eventbrite.co.uk/e/balance-of-p…

😧It's a stark injustice that people who live on low incomes are more likely to take their own lives.

👇Join us to better understand the issues and to consider the role of voluntary organisations in suicide prevention.

eventbrite.co.uk/e/suicide-prev…

The 2 child limit is a poverty creating policy. Scrapping it would lift 300k children across the UK out of poverty, incl 30k in Scotland alone. This must be a priority for any government committed to tackling poverty and inequality.

You can access this partnership co-produced stigma toolkit on our website, a resource to help improve practice and tackle the stigma felt by many families fifegingerbread.org.uk/stigma-toolkit

Lovely mention in The Courier by Amanda James for us among all the other great things going on in Kinross>

thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/perth-…

Very excited/relieved/supportive of the new session of AndysmanclubScotland starting in Kinross. A much needed safe space for men to support each other at a time when mental health is under so much pressure.

Thanks to our amazing community Kinross Colts AFC and Baynes Bakery for donating hundreds of Easter eggs that’s meant everyone getting food support will get sweet treats to enjoy over the Easter weekend.

We are proud to be part of the collective effort to ensure everyone gets paid fairly. Together we have delivered a pay rise to over 64,000 workers and put over £485 million into the pockets of low paid workers. #LivingWage

Living Wage Scotland

Always a humbling event #BPTLF meeting all our supporters and third sector partners, volunteer groups and amazing community - thanks for stopping by to say hi!