Spring Edition

Multicoloured Tullips on spring garden — **Dear PRAN Members,**

We hope that all is well and you are enjoying the early spring! This newsletter includes a few updates about our new podcast, blog, and alerts about some events, as well as a call for evidence and information about a newly launched manifesto that might be of interest to you.

To begin with, we would like to remind you about our upcoming workshop on Community-Centred Outreach and Participation. This workshop will provide participants with techniques to establish meaningful relationships, collaborate with diverse stakeholders, and design community-centred research initiatives. By understanding local contexts and needs, participants will be better equipped to drive change that resonates with the people they aim to serve. We have some fantastic speakers and lunch will be provided! Click here for more information and to register.

The Cost of Living Chronicles: Professor Ian Singha — We are also very excited about the release of our new **podcast**. In this episode we are talking with **Professor Ian Sinha**, a Consultant Respiratory Paediatrician at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, about the impact of poverty on children's health.

The new blog post, written by Professor John McKendrick, Co-Director at the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit, about the Tackling Poverty Locally Directory, might also be of interest to you.

Events Next Week: 26th of March (Tuesday)

Learning Network Event: The Impact of COVID on Young Children and Babies

Organiser: Save the Children UK

Time: 10:00-11.30

Location: Online

The network is one of the ways that we share our insights about effective place-based and partnership working across, and beyond, the early years sector. Our intention is to build a network of Save the Children staff, local partners and colleagues working on similar projects across the UK and abroad in order to:

Enable others to create change for children in their local area
Help identify the shared challenges that need action beyond local areas
Create networks and allies to advocate for wider change

For more information and to register please click here.

Cash Perk Online Demo - Sending Cash Payments for Welfare/Emergency Funds

Organiser: Cash Perks

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

Location: Online

Cash Perks is holding an online demo showing how their cash payment solution might help charities and other organisations when either sending ad hoc emergency payments or wholesale distribution of your welfare fund schemes to clients.The event will be joined by Manchester CAB who will be sharing their experience of sending almost £500,000 using the Cash Perks facility. To register and for more information click here.

Call for Evidence

GMCVO and Greater Manchester Poverty Action have been funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) to conduct an evidence review that collates and themes issues that are repeatedly deemed to be important to address.

This evidence will be collated in a JRF ‘knowledge bank’ as part of a programme that seeks to act on the priority areas identified. By using evidence already generated JRF hopes to reduce consultation fatigue while at the same time giving civil society institutions access to meaningful intelligence from those directly affected by issues.

If you have been involved in, or you are aware of UK based work between 2008 and 2024 that enabled those affected by the economic injustice of poverty to articulate the issues that they face and what they feel are the most important things to invest in, please complete this online form.

Deadline for submissions: 18th April 2024.

Academics Stand Against Poverty UK (ASAP UK) Manifesto

ASAP UK are launching their third Manifesto in advance of the 2024 UK election. ASAP is an international network of chapters of which ASAP UK is one of 18 chapters globally. For the Manifesto Audit ASAP UK brings together expert analysis of the political party manifestos to assess the impact of the parties’ policies towards tackling poverty. The audit produces a score for each policy area which combines into an overall score to provide accessible information on poverty reduction to the electorate. To keep up to date with ASAP UK activity join their mailing list via: https://forms.gle/aYmw4Mb28ZetBPUr7

We wish you a lovely Spring break, and we hope that this time of year will strengthen the existing networks and initiatives of tackling poverty and social injustice, and foster some new ones!

In Solidarity,

PRAN Team

PRAN NEWSLETTER ISSUE 4: MARCH 2024