PRAN NEWSLETTER ISSUE 6: MAY 2024
Spring Edition (Part Three)
Dear PRAN Members,
May has been a busy yet rather rewarding month! We have really enjoyed being a part of Liverpool's longest running annual literary festival WoWFEST and hosting ‘Poverty and Resistance’ event.
It was a great turnout and our panellists, Prof Danny Dorling (University of Oxford), Prof Imogen Tylor (Lancaster University), Liam Thorp (Liverpool Echo), Ian Byrne MP (Liverpool West Derby), and Amina Ismail (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine), have shared with us some extremely insightful and thought-provoking observations about tackling poverty and inequality. It was also great to have the Good Food; Our Food pop-up exhibition by Feeding Liverpool displayed at the event- it is a prime example of a powerful storytelling.
In this newsletter issue you can find some updates about our new blog, podcast episode, and upcoming events.
BLOG
Read our latest blog titled ‘Two Child Limit to benefit payments: new data sheds light on which families are hardest hit’ written by Rachel Walters, End Child Poverty Coalition Coordinator who revealed that ‘The two-child limit policy, introduced seven years ago, restricts benefits for larger families, leading to 1 in 10 (1.5 million) children living in poverty. End Child Poverty Coalition calls, to scrap it, could lift 300,000 children out of poverty.’
PODCAST
In our fifth Cost of Living Chronicles episode, we discuss Health Inequalities with Professor Matthew Ashton, the Director of Public Health for Liverpool City Council. He leads a team of over 30 people in the local authority, covering a range of public health activities including the commissioning of public health services, health protection, health improvement, health care public health, embedding health in all policy approaches and addressing the wider determinants of health. Click here to listen to our latest segment.
EVENTS
Media Engagement for Social Impact Workshop
Date: Thursday 20th of June
Time: 12pm-5pm
Place: Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool L6 1HP and Online
Through expert-led discussions, featuring Save the Children UK, Heard and Living Rent, our media engagement workshop will discuss how to effectively engage with media in order to create a meaningful social change. Click here for more information and to register for this free event. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.
Other Events
Poverty Stigma Insight Network Design Session
Date: Thursday 6th of June
Time: 10am-12pm
Place: Zoom
Since 2023, the Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP), as part of the International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO), has been working to explore how public services in Wales and beyond can use evidence and expertise to prevent and tackle poverty stigma more effectively.
Following a series of workshops held in 2023, the WCPP is now seeking to establish a Poverty Stigma Insight Network, to continue to bring together people from across Wales and elsewhere in the UK with interests and expertise in drawing on evidence and insight to tackle poverty stigma. To help us design and establish the network, we’d like to invite you to an initial set up session on Thursday 6th of June from 10am-12pm on Zoom. The session is for all people (practitioner, an academic or lived experience expert, or a local or national decision-maker) who are interested in helping to shape what the network could look like, how it could work and what it could and should seek to achieve. If you’d like to come along to the initial session, please register using this link.
‘Afloat’ Performance
Date: Friday 21st June and Saturday 22nd June
Time: 1:30pm (21st) and 7:30pm (22nd)
Place: Liverpool Lighthouse
Afloat is a theatre for social change performance, following the journey of two English citizens seeking asylum in a fictional place, fighting for their lives as the dream to make Britain Great turns into a living nightmare. The piece is created by a group of professional artists working with artists and performers currently seeking asylum/ with previous experience of seeking asylum, and bravely shines a light on a very broken system. Inspired by real stories of seeking asylum, using a combination of striking visuals, movement and comedy, this paradoxical theatrical journey invites audiences to join in a Liverpool families’ search for asylum in a strange and fictional country. In order to reach as many audiences as possible and for the show to have as much impact as it can, the tickets for this remarkable new show are free:
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/afloatasylumlinkmerseyside/1204262
Knowledge sharing and dissemination is an important part of the fight against poverty. We encourage our members to utilise PRAN’s website for this very purpose and contact us if you wish to write a blog post, join our podcast or advertise your work, activities or events.
In Solidarity,
PRAN Team
