Poverty

Advicenow is running a free housing rights course for frontline organisations supporting people with refugee status. The course will be delivered online and is funded by The Disrupt Foundation.

The course aims to give you the basic knowledge and skills needed to deal with key issues for people experiencing homelessness and living in temporary accommodation.

The course will be delivered online. You will be required to watch short introductory videos before each interactive session.

Week 1

Join Resolve Poverty for a free webinar session, exploring what makes an effective anti-poverty strategy, and how localities can turn ambition into action?

Join Resolve Poverty for an upcoming webinar exploring the development of effective anti-poverty strategies, with a focus on why they matter, and how they can support meaningful action to tackle poverty.

The webinar will explore:

As part of Talk Money Week, and taking place a year on from the publication of the Government's Financial Inclusion Strategy, Resolve Poverty, alongside their partners from the More Than Advice programme, will explore the role and potential of community-based debt advice and why it matters within the wider financial inclusion and policy landscape.

The webinar will introduce More Than Advice and how its community-based approach is being delivered across the programme, share early learning and reflections, and create space to consider the wider implications for policy and practice.

The GM Creative Health Champions programme is a free online training offer for people working across health, social care, local government, culture, heritage, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia and related fields who are interested in the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. It is particularly suited to those who want to influence change within their organisation, community or wider system, build their knowledge of creative health, and develop the confidence to embed creative health approaches in practice

The GM Creative Health Champions programme is a free online training offer for people working across health, social care, local government, culture, heritage, the voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCFSE) sector, academia and related fields who are interested in the role of creativity in supporting health and wellbeing in Greater Manchester. It is particularly suited to those who want to influence change within their organisation, community or wider system, build their knowledge of creative health, and develop the confidence to embed creative health approaches in practice

Advicenow are running a free course for organisations across England which support care leavers in securing their housing rights. The course will be delivered online and is funded by the National Lottery Reaching Communities project.

The course will give you the basic knowledge and skills you need to deal with key housing and benefits issues faced by people who have left care. 

The free online workshops will take place on the following dates:

Food poverty is a significant public health challenge with profound social, psychological and economic consequences for individuals, families and communities.

This lunch and learn session, hosted by the Local Government Association, will begin by exploring the emerging evidence around hunger trauma, highlighting how food insecurity can affect mental health, wellbeing, dignity and identity. The session also outlines the psychological, practical and ethical challenges faced by staff and volunteers in community food support organisations.

Join Fuel Poverty Action and friends in Manchester for a conference asking the question who's getting rich from the green transition, and who is missing out?

How do we fight for a clean energy system that's fairer than the dirty fossil fueled one it replaces? How do we make sure home retrofits, insulation, heat pumps etc actually bring bills down and make our homes warm and healthy?