PRAN NEWSLETTER ISSUE 7: JUNE 2024
Summer Edition (Part One- PRAN’s Birthday)
Dear PRAN Members,
The release of this newsletter coincides with the one year anniversary of PRAN’s launch! We must say that this year passed in the blink of an eye! Nevertheless, we feel happy about what has been achieved this year! Read our latest blog about PRAN’s journey and vision here. This year was marked by a series of exciting things:
2023
June - The Cost of Living Crisis Conference and PRAN’s Launch
October - Building Partnerships and Collaborations in a Context of Crisis Work
2024
January - Launch of PRAN’s Website
April - Community- Centred Outreach and Participation Workshop
May - Our Hands, Our Mouths - Poverty and Resistance Event
June - Media Engagement for Social Impact Workshop
We have also released a number of Cost of Living Chronicles Podcast Segments and blog contributions. This work would simply not be possible without the good will and expertise of some extraordinary people and organisations. In no particular order, we want to express our deepest gratitude to organisations who volunteered their precious time and contributed to our events, blogs and podcast segments:
Poverty Truth Network, GMCVO, People’s Powerhouse, Liverpool Access to Advice Network (LATAN), Resolve Poverty, Collective Encounters, 4 Wings, Global Race Centre for Equality (GRACE/UCLan), Writing on the Wall (WoW), Save the Children UK, Heard, Living Rent, End Furniture Poverty, IFAN, Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIR), End Child Poverty Coalition, Asylum Links, St Andrews’s Community Network, Project Twist-it and Feeding Liverpool.
We also want to thank Prof Danny Dorling, Prof Ian Sinha, Prof Imogen Taylor, Prof Matthew Ashton, Ian Byrne, Amina Ismail, Liam Thorp, and Mary O’Hara, for their support and contributions to our activities.
There are many more people and organisations that in one way or another contributed to our work and we are eternally grateful to them!
Thanks to Liverpool Hope University and the Social Policy Association for their support with development of our website and workshops.
We would like to pay a special tribute to Naomi Maynard who has just left her role as the director of Feeding Liverpool and is moving to a new adventure of her life. Naomi is an exceptional human being and she has done amazing things to support people in Liverpool. Her contributions towards fighting against food poverty in the city will never be forgotten and we wish her all the best in this new chapter of her life!
PODCAST
In our sixth Cost of Living Chronicles Podcast Episode, we speak to Ian Byrne, Labour Party candidate for Liverpool West Derby, about his activism and efforts to tackle injustice and poverty in Liverpool and beyond. Click here to listen to this podcast segment and learn more about initiatives such as the Right to Food Campaign and Fans Supporting Food Banks.
EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE
Inequalities and Health Summit: Call for Action
Date: 29th of October
Time: 8.30- 17.15
Place: Liverpool Hope University, Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP
We are very excited to announce that PRAN is part of an organisational committee for an upcoming summit that is focusing on Inequalities and Health. The action-focused summit aims to drive change in the North West region. The event will bring together academics, policy-makers, health professionals, businesses, third-sector organisations, communities, activists, and citizens, or anyone interested in decreasing inequalities in our region. It will feature some of the most powerful voices on the matter, such as Prof Matthew Ashton (Director of Public Health for Liverpool City Region) and Katie Schmuecker (Principal Policy Adviser, Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
For more information and to register, please visit:
https://www.hope.ac.uk/healthandsportsciences/events/inequalitiesandhealthsummit/
Please do get in touch with us, if you would like to exhibit work of your organisation in the summit’s marketplace.
EXCITING NEWS FROM OUR FRIENDS
Greater Manchester Poverty Action rebrands as Resolve Poverty.
Greater Manchester Poverty Action has this week rebranded as Resolve Poverty, to signal its determination to tackle poverty in localities and regions nationwide.
The organisation, one of the UK’s leading voices on local responses to poverty, was founded in 2016 to reduce and prevent poverty in Greater Manchester.
Since then, it has influenced councils and other public bodies to adopt anti-poverty strategies, engaged in the design and delivery of local welfare provision, and developed programmes to help families access financial support.
As the organisation has grown, so too has the scope of the work – beginning to advise and collaborate on anti-poverty efforts in places beyond Greater Manchester.
The name change to Resolve Poverty marks a new chapter as the nonprofit now looks to support local authorities and partners across the country to tackle poverty, as part of a national mission to end it.
The new name and refreshed brand reflect the organisation’s new strategy for 2024-28. This new strategy focuses on helping local places and regions to tackle poverty and boost living standards in their communities, as part of what Resolve Poverty hopes will be a new national mission to end poverty.
Resolve Poverty can work with councils and other areas of the public sector who are considering their role in resolving poverty in their locality. Please get in touch with Head of Policy & Research Laura Burgess, laura@resolvepoverty.org for more information.
There are lots more things in the making for PRAN - so keep an eye on our news and updates! Thank you for your support and for joining the network in the collective fight against poverty and injustice! We will be back in touch soon!
“To be truly radical is to make hope possible, rather than despair convincing” Raymond Williams, 1989
In Solidarity,
PRAN Team
