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Here you can find newsletters featuring the latest news updates from PRAN. We also feature blogs by PRAN and contributors from our network.
If you have information about projects, new research or want to share an experience, please get in touch.
Media Experts’ Top Tips
The media shapes public views on crises, so it's crucial to use it effectively to convey key messages. Expert tips from PRAN’s workshop, including advice from Save the Children UK, Heard, and Project Twist, can enhance your media strategies.
Accelerating Fight Against Poverty: The Story of PRAN
Founded in June 2023, PRAN unites over 170 members to combat poverty in the UK. With 14.4 million people affected, PRAN highlights effective efforts, challenges harmful narratives, and fosters collaborations to make poverty a political priority.
Two Child Limit to benefit payments: new data sheds light on which families are hardest hit
The two-child limit policy, introduced seven years ago, restricts benefits for larger families, leading to 1 in 10 (1.5 million) children living in poverty. End Child Poverty Coalition calls, to scrap it, could lift 300,000 children out of poverty.
Latest DWP poverty statistics must surely provide the ultimate wake-up call
Since the Universal Credit cut in October 2021, data from IFAN members reveals a concerning rise in food parcel distribution. Recent reports highlight a surge in demand for emergency support, coupled with challenges such as dwindling donations, food supplies, and exhausted volunteers at food banks.
The Tackling Poverty Locally Directory
In 2023, the Scottish Poverty and Inequality Research Unit (SPIRU) at Glasgow Caledonian University launched the Tackling Poverty Locally Directory. It aims to become the go-to place to learn about projects aiming to tackle poverty locally across the UK (and beyond).
The importance of hope
“ Resources such as the PRAN Network (and beyond) will be vital … to ensure more collaboration and further understanding of issues such as poverty and how we can all work together to intentionally follow the course of designing poverty out of communities.” Lee Collins