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.
Thrive welcome the support from the National Lottery Awards for All to progress our initiative: part of the solution and not the problem: transforming communities through building connections’. We look forward to developing and delivering several initiatives to connect with the wider community in Hartlepool and improve the physical environment that they live in.
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.
On the 15th of May, Wednesday, we hosted the launch event for the Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission. After six months of planning, dedicated Hartlepool community commissioners produced the launch to shed light on the realities of life in Hartlepool and the challenges faced by those living in poverty.
Tracy Herrington writes about why the new Labour government must put disadvantaged communities at the heart of their decisions – and why that needs to be enshrined in law.
Through the eyes and values of lived experiences: Listen up to level up.
Using their voices, members of Poverty2Solutions highlight their dedication to ending the issues that keep people trapped in poverty. This film also highlights the importance and value of involving lived experiences in the conversations around shaping effective policy and creating systemic change that can help build a fairer society.
Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership (GRIPP) is working together to end poverty across the nations and regions of the UK.
GRIPP is made up of a number of individuals, projects and organisations from across the nations and regions of the UK who endeavour to take a human rights-based approach.
Nexus is a short film about the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health, eating-related coping strategies, and the power of connection.
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.
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 Read more…
“We are all used to governments which don’t look anything like us: politicians who are privately educated, Oxbridge graduates who often have more private wealth than we can ever dream off. Starmer’s Labour government is Read more…
A statement from Thrive Teesside on behalf of our staff and trustees, regarding the comment made in the House of Commons on Wednesday 22nd November by the Home Secretary, James Cleverly MP.
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