Our September issue is packed with news! Picture This reaches thousands at the Museum of Liverpool, we announce a collaboration with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and our blog explores invisible poverty. Plus, a podcast from an inspiring musical gathering, a research call for parents, and a glimpse of what's ahead.
Hello and welcome back to The Cost of Living Chronicles - this is our BONUS Episode on Music and Social Change! Musicians, politicians, doctors, researchers and many others gathered to confront child poverty through song, reflecting on how music connects people and exposes systemic injustice, honouring struggling families along the way.
Meet JRF's Insight Infrastructure team, sharing updates with PRAN members. The team makes poverty data, research and lived experience easier to find, share and use, including through its Grounded Voices programme. It plans a spring 2027 conference on voice and power in evidence, with ideas welcome until 19 October 2026.
Around 12.1 million UK households live in fuel poverty, worsened by geopolitical gas price shocks, record energy debt and soaring energy-company profits. Before the Budget, the End Fuel Poverty Coalition urges debt write-offs, a bigger Warm Home Discount, extreme weather payments, social tariffs, cheaper electricity and retaining the windfall tax.