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Thrive Teesside: our top tips to support the development and sustainability of mechanisms whereby local people can influence decisions that impact on their lives.
ByDylan Eastwood October 7, 2025September 8, 2026

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 lives. As Tracey Herrington reflects, “Taking stock and reflecting on our learning to date, we’re always inspired by the community…

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Listen to the voices of lived experience- Tracey Herrington writes for Amnesty International UK and LCHR.
ByDylan Eastwood October 9, 2024September 8, 2026

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…

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Some people choose between food and paying bills. Labour must consider them when making decisions- Tracey Herrington writes for Big Issue
ByDylan Eastwood August 20, 2024September 8, 2026

“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 different. His cabinet is a bit more representative of ordinary Brits, and includes people who have experienced child poverty, who have…

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Human Rights Watch- Automated Hardship How the Tech-Driven Overhaul of the UK’s Social Security System Worsens Poverty (Thrive Teesside)
ByDylan Eastwood October 1, 2020November 17, 2022

Thrive Teesside have been featured in a report on automating Universal Credit, published by Human Rights Watch. According to Tracey Herrington, project manager at Thrive Teesside, a social justice charity based in Stockton-On-Tees, these updates did not reach the people most affected by the new information, particularly those without internet access at home: “People have…

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