If you needed to rely on social security during a difficult time, you’d assume it would cover the essentials, right? #OurEssentials

A sign that our support systems aren’t doing what they should. It’s time to guarantee #OurEssentials

A new inquiry on the adequacy of benefits will be starting soon. There’s already a mountain of evidence to show that people on #UniversalCredit are struggling to afford the essentials. This needs to change. #OurEssentials

The childcare system in the UK isn’t working for anyone. Some great work here which shows how we could change it for the better.

Big news that govt wants to scrap the Work Capability Assessment. It is despised by many who experience it and has failed to enable work among those with a health condition or disability (in fact it has had precisely the opposite effect). So few will mourn its loss.

Tomorrow's #budget is Sir Jeremy Hunt MP's first opportunity to tackle the challenges facing low-income households across the country. Here's what he'll need to do to make a difference 👇 #Budget2023 🧵

CONFIRMED: The Energy Price Guarantee 20% rise has been postponed from April to July - meaning in practice it's cancelled. Exactly what my letter (below) to Chancellor asked for. Thanks to the govt for listening & to the 135 charities backing the campaign Video explainer to come

We are embarking on exciting new work in #York, birthplace of Joseph Rowntree and the city where our work as a Foundation began.

📈 Inflation's now been in the double digits for 6 months 🍞 Food prices have risen by their highest rate in >45 years 🍽️ Millions are already going without the essentials We must make a change & base #UniversalCredit on what people actually need, to guarantee #OurEssentials

"This isn’t a cost-of-living crisis; this is a cost-of-staying-alive crisis... in one of the richest societies that has ever lived, a fifth of single disabled people are effectively destitute" superb, as usual, by @drfrancesryan theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Amazing first day National Trust. Working from Goddards felt very special.

We live in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet people in the UK are going without the essentials.​ I support the @TrussellTrust & Joseph Rowntree Foundation's call for the government to guarantee that the basic rate of Universal Credit covers #OurEssentials 👉 trusselltrust.org/essentials

🧵 Right now Universal Credit doesn’t cover the costs of all the essentials we need to get by. So today, we’re at Finsbury Park with Joseph Rowntree Foundation with the receipt to prove it.

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At £85 a week for a single person & £134 for a couple, Universal Credit is not calculated on what people need. It doesn't add up. 🧾 Join us & Joseph Rowntree Foundation to call on the UK Govt to guarantee Universal Credit covers #OurEssentials 👉 bit.ly/3IYD54I

We are launching a new fund to support charities and community organisations that help vulnerable people The £76 million Community Organisations Cost of Living Fund will support organisations with rising costs and increased demand Details ▶️ gov.uk/government/new… The National Lottery Community Fund

Our Chief Analyst, Peter Matejic, outlines the minimum the government must commit to in the upcoming #AutumnStatement. This is by no means a solution in itself; but it will at least mitigate some of the worst effects of the cost-of-living crisis.

Are you appalled by the hardship being experienced by many families in Britain today? Are you motivated to push it to the top of the political agenda as we approach a General Election? Do you have the social media skills to help achieve that? (1/2)

Such a wonderful time at today’s National Trust MarComms event and what a start to the day we had. Celia Richardson #vogue

The Octavia Hill Garden has won the People’s Choice award at #RHSChelsea. The seating is made from trees that came down in Storm Arwen. It features a new seedling grown from the Sycamore Gap tree. And it is lovely. Our founder believed in nature, beauty & history for everyone.