Our timeline
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2023-24
Socio Economic Duty
New Labour Government Commits to enact the duty!
“Labour will enact the socio-economic duty in the Equality Act: Under section 1, public bodies are required to adopt transparent and effective measures to address the inequalities that result from differences in socio-economic status.”
Now the real work begins to ensure meaningful engagement with people who have lived experience forms a key part of any guidance.
Making things / Printing / Writing
P2S Makers underway with Thriving Women
Printmaking is a very important part of our past work- its where we've done a lot of our best work and we've had the most fun. So we gained funding to train and tool up Poverty solutions members to be able to have creative print/ making sessions in their locality, independently.
P2S Makers begins with working with “Thriving Women” to showcase their amazing poetry in a hand made book with each poem complimented by a lino print illustration.
Research
Collaborating for Change
Over the past year, we’ve been seeking out examples of participatory policymaking at the national and regional levels. A summary of our findings is now available.
Partnership
New members
We’ve increased our numbers with new members of the team:
Ruth, Charlotte, Summer and Eva from ATD Fourth World. Thriving Women poets Julie, Sandra, Diana and Sarah and researcher Alice
2021-22
Making things | Film making
Listen up to
Level Up
We wrote, acted in and produced our own short film with the help of Inspired Youth and took it on tour!
Political Engagement
Leave no-one behind
We held a fringe event in partnership with Bright Blue at the 2021 Conservative Party on the critical role that participatory policy-making can play in meeting the party’s promise to “listen to left-behind communities and level up the country.”
We are the voice of our communities with the skills and experience to influence change. We are solution focussed and innovative.’
Corrina, Poverty2Solutions
2020
Partnership
Covid
We kept in touch through video calls during the lockdowns, supporting each other and recording peoples experiences.
Covid-19 has both exposed and hardened existing inequalities; with low-income households at greater risk from the virus, but also from income shocks related to the economic fallout.
2019
We launched the
“Do your duty for equality” campaign
We held a number of influencing meetings with key opposition MP’s including Hariet Harman’ MP, Dawn Butler, MP, shadow Women and Equalities Minister, Margaret Greenwood, MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and Lyn Brown, MP, Shadow Minister for Treasury.
Labour Party conference 2019
We held a high-profile, professional and well-branded fringe event featured a panel of high-profile speakers at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton.
‘Taking our project to the LPC was great, I really liked it. I had never been to such an event, meeting MPs and public figures was something special, I felt some of the people really listened to us. We really need to keep meeting people and getting the message out there.”
Angela, ATD Fourth World
It went well…
“We will put class at the heart of Britain’s equality agenda and create a new ground for discrimination on the basis of socio-economic disadvantage.”
Labour 2019 Manifesto
In the media
The Big Issue makes us one of their top 100 Changemakers
2018
Partnership
The APLE Collective
Poverty2Solutions reached out to other similar organisations to establish the network that is now known as APLE - a strong national collective of individuals and organisations with lived experience of poverty. aplecollective.com
2017
Political Engagement
All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty
We launched our proposals at a parliamentary event Alongside the Webb Memorial Trust and the All Party Parliamentary Group on Poverty, we brought people with experience of poverty together with MPs, policymakers, and key figures from the third sector.
Partnership
3 became 1
ATD Fourth World, Dole Animators and Thrive come together and form Poverty2Solutions, working together to come up with solutions to some of the biggest issues that lock people in poverty across the UK.
2016
The beginning:
We developed our solutions to poverty based on our experiences
In 2016 ATD Fourth World, Dole Animators and Thrive started working with Ruth Patrick, a researcher at the University of York and Dan Farley, a graphic designer. We ran a series of workshops to visualise some of the policy changes that we believed could make a lasting difference to the lives of those living in poverty. The groups came together around a shared vision and formed Poverty2Solutions. has evolved over time encompassing our learning to date.
ATD FOURTH WORLD is a human rights-based, anti-poverty organisation with more than 40 years’ experience of engaging with individuals and institutions to find solutions to eradicate extreme poverty in the UK.
Dole Animators evolved out of a collaboration between a group of Leeds-based benefit claimants who worked together to make an animated documentary about the reality of the impact of the government’s recent welfare reform.
Thrive Teesside provides support for people looking to escape poverty and improve their livelihoods. The organisation prides itself on bringing communities together, showing that people are not alone in experiencing these problems.