Preston City Council is exploring the possibility of extending a hand of friendship to a town in Palestine as a symbol of our sympathy with the people of Palestine, the wider Middle East and those of all faiths / communities who are suffering through conflict across the globe
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Leader of Preston City Council, Councillor Matthew Brown and Councillor Nweeda Khan, Cabinet Member for Communities and Social Justice release a joint statement, which you can read in full on our website:
preston.gov.uk/article/8436/P…

Sarah Doyle Many thanks for your help over the last few months supporting people who come into the shop. There are loud opposing voices who say a lot, but do a little. Not all good deeds are broadcast, but we both know the work being done. Thankyou Sarah #IWD

South Asian solidarity during the Miners' Strike.

Here's a food collection leaflet in Urdu and Punjabi that was distributed across Birmingham.

Street collections on Soho Road in Handsworth were known to be amongst the best supported & miners squabbled over who got that 'patch.'

1/21 Amid such bleak news from Birmingham here’s a more detailed look at something distinctive about it - its legacy of inter-war art deco private flats. No other UK city outside London has so many, and there are virtually none in the obvious peers like Leeds and Manchester.

Tonight Trey Reese Big SleepOut is taking place at Liverpool Cricket Ground.

Every penny raised will support our homeless provision and take us one step closer to achieving our vision of ending homelessness.
Sarah Doyle Liam Robinson Liam Thorp Liverpool City Council LandAid

✍️ Myself & Ruth Bennett have been campaigning to protect the Household Support Fund

💷 It has enabled us to help 330,000 residents with food, fuel and other emergency costs over 3 years

📢 The fund must be extended beyond March 2024 in Jeremy Hunt's budget on Wednesday

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Next week we are bringing our budget proposals to full council. Our proposals include an additional £3.5m for children's services, rising to £4.8m from 2025/26 (1/5)

New research underlines the strong case for social housing, with £31.4bn in wider benefits to society inc:

· £5.2bn savings to the NHS
· £4.5bn savings to homelessness services
· £2.7bn savings due to fewer disruptions to education

& this is only a starting point of 90k builds

🚨New social housing sales/demolition figs today🚨

27,616 social homes sold/demolished in 2022/23. Of that, 10,896 were Right to Buy sales, again outstripping supply of social rent homes (9,561). Every year since 2013/14, more social homes have been sold under RTB than built (1)

Well now. So govt folded on taking asylum seeker accommodation out of HMO licensing and standards rules.

Our plan to rent houses to deliver temporary accommodation will

🏡 Move people and families out of hotels and into proper homes close to schools and in communities

💷 Lead to net saving of £121m until 2029

We will lobby for a national solution to this Tory homelessness crisis

It's gone to press!
Thanks to the wonderful folks at Co-operative News for pulling together the 2024 edition of our 'Intro & funded projects' booklet.
Pick up your copy at #LabLocal24 next weekend or download it here: councils.coop/publication/cc…

Well done to ⁦Municipal Dreams⁩ ⁦Peter Apps⁩ and all the others who appear on this list. I look forward to seeing ⁦KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner⁩ joining them next year.

Five of the best books about the UK housing crisis | Books | The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/jan…

No one in social housing should play any role in this proposal except to oppose it. It is purely a last ditch, desperate attempt by #sunak to appeal to right wing racist voters, using rhetoric that the fascists in the National Front used in the 1970s. theguardian.com/politics/2024/…