Thrive Teesside have signed a letter calling on the chancellor to raise Child Benefit to £50 per child a week, helping families facing the #COVID-19 crisis.
We believe it is a simple, efficient and cost effective way to provide urgently needed help.
Read the full letter below:
This new collection of essays, from Amnesty International UK and the Labour Campaign for Human Rights, looks at key human rights issues, from global atrocities to the growing homelessness crisis in the UK. It highlights the responsibility of governments to protect everyone’s rights but notes that recent years have seen a worrying rollback of these…
The daily realities of the digital divide in the North East of England – a call to connect our community members ‘As an organisation that responds to the needs in our low income communities by, in the first instance, developing trusting relationships with people who live in very difficult circumstances, I never imagined a world…
Two women from Thrive Teesside, a grassroots organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and inequality, are amplifying their communities’ voices on a global stage. Julie Easley, poet and facilitator of the Thriving Women group, and Tracey Herrington, Thrive Teesside Manager, have travelled to Geneva, Switzerland to present powerful testimony and incredibly important GRIPP (Growing Rights Instead…
On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, Just Fair, Amnesty International UK, ATD Fourth World, the Human Rights Centre of the University of Essex and friends and partners renew their commitment to put human rights at the forefront of the anti-poverty movement in the four nations of the UK.
Thrive Project Manager Tracey Herrington featured on Breakfast BBC Radio Tees this morning to talk with Amy Oakden about poverty and inequality, the digital divide and #IDEP2020 To listen to the full show:
Thrive Teesside’s Tracey Herrington speaks to Mike Brown from Gazette Live about the £20 Universal Credit increase and the importance this has for families all across Teesside. “The extra £20 might have helped people put the heating on. We help lots of people who would resist putting the gas or electricity on during the day…