Thrive is an award winning organisation working in Teesside aiming to close the gap between the rich and the poor by supporting low-income communities to enact change.
We do this through research, mentor support and by taking local action: bringing together local people and institutions, supporting them to take action and campaign for social justice.
We have three paid members of staff, a group of 12 dedicated volunteers and a Board of Trustees with 2 advisors (7 in total) Thrive has been able to get the voice of people in poverty to those in power in a way no other grassroots organisation in Teesside has. Many organizations have spokespeople, support workers, advisors and CEO’s speaking for their service users, but Thrive, sticking to our principle of ‘never do for others what they can do for themselves’, has people with direct experience of poverty and financial and social exclusion regularly changing their community and speaking out.
News/Updates
We are launching a special edition version of our book, Thriving Teesside. If you’d like to attend our launch, contact us.
- Human Rights Watch- Automated Hardship How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty (Thrive Teesside)
- Raise Child Benefit- Official Press release
- What does participatory research mean to our community, whether in a pandemic or not?
- Welfare Imaginaries Zine- Thrive Teesside
- Thrive Teesside featured in LGC- Helen Barnard- What councils must do to tackle poverty after pandemic.
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Understanding poverty and social
rights through lived experience
