Poverty

Join Resolve Poverty for a free webinar session, exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.

In this webinar, Resolve Poverty will explore how to use data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action. Using the latest edition of the Resolve Poverty Poverty Monitor, the webinar will explore key poverty indicators across the North West and demonstrate how data can be used to support evidence-based decision-making, policy development and service design.

Join Resolve Poverty for a free 1 hour and 30 minutes webinar exploring how to use poverty data effectively to inform local anti-poverty action.

Understand our social security system and the financial support available to help people find and access what they're entitled to

What you’ll learn:

Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty

What you’ll learn:

This training is ideal for professionals involved in making Section 17 referrals, working with families who need Section 17 support, or challenging refusals. It provides you with the knowledge and tools to ensure families receive the support they are entitled to, and to effectively advocate when support is inadequate. Please note, there will be only a brief overview of Section 17, so it’s best suited for those already familiar with the topic.

The session will explore:

Advicenow is running a free housing rights course on private renting for migrant communities, aimed at frontline organisations. The course will be delivered online and is funded by A B Charitable Trust. 

The course will give you the basic knowledge and skills you need to deal with key housing issues faced by people from migrant communities in privately rented accommodation. It has been updated to include the key changes introduced by the Renters Rights Act, ensuring you understand the new rules around tenancies, disrepair, and evictions. 

The physical effects of living in a cold, damp home are well recognised and rightly emphasised, but the mental health impacts of fuel poverty also deserve attention.

This course is designed for frontline staff who support vulnerable or low‑income individuals at risk of living in cold and damp conditions. It explores how fuel poverty can influence both physical and mental health, and how these challenges may affect the way individuals engage with the energy market.

Changing habits and behaviours can be challenging, yet the small decisions people make every day have a significant effect on their household energy use. To support households effectively, energy advisers need to feel confident in providing practical, behaviour‑focused guidance.

This course explores key theories and insights from the field of decision‑making, with a particular focus on simple, actionable techniques that can help advisers encourage households to act on the energy‑saving advice they receive.

Food, rent, and other basics of life continue to be a huge burden for millions of people across Greater Manchester. The cost of living is too high, and wages have failed to keep up.

Three organisations that work on the cost of living across our city-region have put this hustings together to give you the chance to put your questions directly to the candidates who are standing to be the next mayor of Greater Manchester.

ACORN Manchester – GM branch of a national community union, which campaigns on renter's rights, bailiff use and a range of other working-class issues.