PRAN NEWSLETTER ISSUE 9: Autumn 2024
Dear PRAN Members,
We hope this newsletter finds you well! This issue contains a number of exciting updates and new information, and we trust you will find it both useful and informative!
BLOGS
Since our previous newsletter, we have published two new blog articles. Do have a look:
Save the Children UK: Addressing the Child Health Crisis at Home (By Margaret Kilner, Senior Influencing Lead – England, Save the Children UK)
Save the Children UK tackles child poverty and health inequality in the UK through partnerships like Sheffield's Early Learning Community, advocating for change and highlighting issues via BBC Panorama. Click here to read the blog.
Access to Justice: Liverpool Advice Strategy (By Liz Reed, a former Network Development and Project Coordinator, Liverpool Access to Advice Network)
Post-austerity, Liverpool's advice sector halved, creating advice deserts. LATAN reports a 95% demand increase, with 90% under-resourced. Needs assessments and long-term funding are crucial. Liverpool must develop a comprehensive access to justice strategy. Follow this link to read this blog.
PODCAST
Look out for our new podcast, which will be released at the end of this month! In our upcoming segment, we will discuss the lived experiences of asylum seekers and refugees.
EVENTS
Inequalities and Health Summit: Call For Action
When: 29th of October
Where: Creative Campus, Shaw Street, Liverpool, L6 1HP
Registration: Closing Soon!
With over 60 incredible speakers across our plenary and knowledge exchange sessions, workshops, and a poster fair, this summit is not to be missed! For more information and to register, please click here. We have a limited number of free tickets for those who wish to attend but lack the necessary funds. Please contact us at info@pran.org.uk to obtain these tickets.
SAVE THE DATE
PRAN’s Funding Strategies Workshop
When: 3rd of December
Where: Liverpool and Online
Registration: TBA
About the workshop:
Securing funding is often a significant challenge for change-makers, especially in the context of ongoing crisis. Without this financial capital, projects that aim to benefit communities and groups often remain un/underfunded. Our funding strategies workshop therefore aims to provide attendees with practical insights into grant writing, donor engagement, and effective fundraising campaigns. In sharing best practices and real-world examples from both national and local funding organisations and experts, participants will gain the skills needed that can help attract financial support for their projects.
Macello Fundraising Night for SACN
When: 21st of October
Where: Marcello Meathouse, L12 5HW
The lovely team at Macello in West Derby are holding a fundraising evening for St. Andrew’s Community Network on Monday 21st October. It should be a great night raising vital funds for all of the work across our food, financial inclusion and volunteering spaces so we’re really looking forward to it!
Please feel free to share this with family, friends, neighbours or anyone else you think might be interested in coming along to this.
South Lakes PTC 'Nothing Without Us'
When: 14th of October
Where: 21 Lake Road Windermere, LA23 2JA
Nothing Without Us – the final public event of the first Poverty Truth Commission in the South Lakes. Join the vent to:
• Mark the beginning of a new way of designing and delivering genuinely inclusive services in our local area.
• Hear what we’ve been doing to ensure that people with lived experience of financial hardship – and the lasting damage it does to health, happiness and hopes for the future - continue to be heard at all stages of that process.
• Enjoy a good lunch with a great bunch of people.
Poverty Stigma Insight Network Meeting
When: 20th November
Where: Online
The Poverty Stigma Insight Network aims to drive societal change, unlocking the human and social potential that is harmed by poverty stigma. It strives to influence local and national decision-making to address poverty stigma by:
Using evidence and insight to raise awareness and understanding of poverty stigma, challenge myths about poverty, and shift the narrative;
Changing the attitudes and practices of professionals, organisations, and public services.
The network aims 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. Therefore, everyone is welcome to join this upcoming meeting.
OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Put Children First Campaign
Alder Hey Children’s Charity is starting a coalition to Put Children First. This campaign -inspired by children and young people – is Ignite the Sparks and hopes to inspire decision makers to make children a political priority.
This is how you can help raise awareness about the campaign:
Sign up for regular updates – please send your email address to alderhey@bbpartners.co.uk to be added to their mailing list;
Download the launch event toolkit and share the content far and wide.
Follow the campaign updates on X @PutChildren1 and repost our launch thread here.
GMCVO’s New Impact Report
The Impact Report 2023/2024 highlights the impact of GMCVO work between April 2023 and March 2024, including investments, grants, policy and research work, partnerships and networks, their conference centre (St Thomas Centre), reach, and equality, diversity and inclusion in Greater Manchester. Click here to read the report.
Lifting the Lid on Poverty Stigma in Wales Survey Findings
The Wales Centre for Public Policy commissioned the Bevan Foundation to carry out the survey as part of WCPP’s work to support the public sector in Wales to better understand and tackle the issue – to ‘reduce, rather than produce poverty stigma’ in the creation and delivery of policies and services. This first major survey into the scale of poverty stigma in Wales has found that 25% of the Welsh population have experienced poverty stigma ‘always’, ‘often’ or ‘sometimes’ in the last year. To read more about this survey click here.
Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to sharing our insights, news and updates with you soon!
In Solidarity,
PRAN Team
