THRIVE TEESSIDE
Thrive Teesside is an award-winning organisation working in Teesside, advocating for the voice of lived experience to be included in decision-making processes.
We do this through research, tailored one-to-one support and taking local action: bringing together local people and institutions. We have three paid members of staff, a group of dedicated volunteers and a Board of Trustees. 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 organisations have spokespeople, support workers, advisors and CEOs 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.
The Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission brings together people with lived experience of poverty and local decision-makers to explore solutions, build understanding, and create lasting change.
The West View Eco Club is a group of children from West View Primary School who volunteer in our community garden, learning about nature while helping to care for their local environment.
Voices of Hartlepool is a local response to positively address the issues that people who are struggling to get by face and improve their lives.
Thrive are also helping to develop Hartlepool Borough Council's Anti-Poverty strategy and working with a range of stakeholders to improve services across Hartlepool including Council Tax.
Big news for Hartlepool! 
Co-create cultural activities rooted in local life
Amplify community voices
Strengthen connections between wards
Build lasting cultural and social change across the town
We are proud to have contributed to the recent report produced by the Welfare Experiences project, a comparative, five-year project exploring experiences of social security of working-age people who are out-of-work across Estonia, Hungary, Norway, Spain, and the UK.
Led by co-production partners including APLE Collective in England, the research placed lived experience and co-created knowledge at its heart, ensuring that the realities, emotions and ideas of people directly affected by welfare systems shaped the findings.
HARTLEPOOL POVERTY TRUTH COMMISSION
Hot off the press! As part of our Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission, we created a special feature in Hartlepool Life packed with free, family-friendly activities to help local families make the most of the holidays- without breaking the bank!
Leading and co-ordinating on Thrive's local and national work including Poverty2Solutions, the APLE Collective and developing Hartlepool's Poverty Truth Commission.
Engaging and working with the community to create opportunities whereby people with lived experience of poverty can influence decisions that can lead to positive change. I am also APLE Collective's lived experience coordinator!
Responsible for creating, distributing, and managing Thrive's online presence in order to meaningfully voice those with lived experiences of poverty.
Back on the 19th September, the community came together for the West View Clean-Up Day, and what a wonderful morning it was! The event was full of litter picking (and our silent disco litter picking), crafts, community conversations, Read more
Ghosts By Thriving Women Ghosts is a compelling new anthology of poetry by Thriving Women, a collective of women with lived experience of poverty and exclusion. Facilitated by Thrive Teesside and Tees Women Poets, the book Read more
Back in 2022, Thrive Teesside created a Top Tips Guide to Local Decision-Making for the Stockton Poverty Truth Commission- offering key principles for building relationships where local people have genuine influence over the decisions that affect their Read more
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