AllinOne
The East Midlands 2010 project for the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion was called All in One. This site extends the networking opportunities it created. If you are involved in helping to combat poverty and social exclusion in our region, we'd love you to get in touch: info@cefet.org.uk.
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The power of social media takes some beating! In the process of transfering content from the old grou.ps site to this posterous content management system, we have avoided publishing or autoposting old content around the web. And yet, within a matter of hours we're seeing more and people coming to read what's being posted to this site - 60 people for one post transferred around 3 hours ago.
It bodes well for the future of campaigning to combat poverty in the UK! We do hope you'll stick around and perhaps subscribe to the http://community-em.posterous.com blog as this will be our main forum for ongoing dialogue, collaboration and action. It's good to realise we're creating a living legacy here.
Remember at the Poverty Convention we all agreed that our work should not end there?
Well, we're delighted to inform you of forthcoming changes to the www.allinone-em.org.uk website, which will help this to happen. We are going to streamline to a far simpler format, which will make it easier to keep in touch and to continue to engage an outside audience. That’s all for now except to say thank you making this project so successful and we look forward to sharing its equally successful future with you!
Stars of the show at the very popular Poverty Convention at The Workhouse in Southwell on Monday 18th October were undoubtedly the people from local poor communities, grassroots groups and individuals. Through film, written case studies and talking to delegates they gave us a vivid picture of the difficulties of people living on inadequate incomes.
Many problems with the current benefits system were highlighted with bureaucracy and poor decisions throwing families into crisis situations. We heard about deepening debt problems aggravated by unscrupulous loan sharks, the plight of destitute asylum seekers and despair over a policy that concentrates on combating poverty by combating worklessness when it's people's experience that "there are no jobs" and in work poverty is now becoming as significant as out of work poverty. There were strong feelings that the gap between rich and poor needed to be reduced and that it was completely unfair to make the poor poorer to pay for the economic crisis.
For film of the event, information about speakers and the agenda see:
http://convention-em.posterous.com/
and http://twitter.com/The_Workhouse
and http://en-gb.facebook.com/people/Atthe-Workhouse/100001472680277
CEFET attended the Nottingham Faith Forum on 29th September 2010 where people from different faith communities from Nottingham spent a part time of the meeting talking about poverty issues. One of the issues that came up on the meeting was that they want to encourage people to take part in the Nottingham City Council consultation on the cuts (for more information, please see the previous news blog ). Please click here for the notes of the meeting.
With regards to the Big Society, Derek Markie from the Nottingham Faith Forum wrote: ‘Big Society, a perspective’ and the Churches Regional Commission (CRC) released ‘Big Response. The new government, the cuts and the churches.'
Nottingham City Council is preparing its 2011/12 budget and has to anticipate on cuts in grand funding of between 25 and 40% in addition to around £10million of cuts to funding that has already been announced by the Government. Therefore, they are seeking the views of citizens from a wide range of backgrounds about the services they value the most. They will the try to prioritise these services the most they can.
“We want to hear what services you, and your members, value and how changes might impact on different communities of interest. We want to hear your suggestions from your own experiences of using our services about how they could be delivered more cheaply. Please let us know your views by coming along to our equalities focused, drop in event in the Council House October 15th 3.30-6.30pm.
This ‘Your City, Your Services’ drop in event will be a chance to talk directly to Councillor Ahmed (Portfolio Holder for Employment, Skills and Community Cohesion) and our Equalities and Community Relations Team.
Everyone is welcome but we want to make sure we get the views of people who might be in the minority at a neighbourhood event, for example: people with disabilities, older people, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, people from minority ethnic groups and refugees. If you have any specific access needs please contact Viv in advance on 0115 9158713 or at community.cohesion@nottinghamcity.gov.uk.
There is also the possibility to fill in the survey at
http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/yourcityyourservices
You can find more information on following link, including a list of all the local ‘Your City Your Services’ events in case these may be more convenient for you.
In Bolsover the Community Voluntary Partners held two listening events with long term unemployed people. You can read the main barriers and myths regarding poverty identified on the meeting of the 30th June 2010 here. The report on the two listening events highlights three main myths/ policy changes. For more information click here.
According to the latest results of the 16th of August Euro barometer report - a European bi-annual opinion poll - 75% support of European support the EU-2020 priority to “help the poor and socially excluded and enable them to play an active part in society (71% of the interrogated UK citizens). ‘Helping the poor and socially excluded’ came thus out as the second most important priority regarding exiting the financial and economic crisis and preparing for the next decennium. The same report shows that only 42% of Europeans say they trust the European Union, a decrease of six percentage points in only six months.
According to Fintan Farrell, Director of EAPN, the key message is:
“If the European Union wants to restore citizen’s confidence, then the fight against poverty and social exclusion needs to be seen to be a key priority for the EU. A declaration from EU Heads of States and Governments committing to concrete actions to fight poverty and social exclusion as a conclusion to the 2010 Year against Poverty is one way to respond to the citizens’ demands.”
EAPN believes that EU leaders should therefore rethink their current policy approaches to the economic, social and financial crisis:
“EU leaders must realize that with the response to the crisis to date, most people and the most vulnerable even more so, are bearing the consequences of the past mistakes made by decision makers. For workers, the price of holding onto a job has meant an unacceptable degradation of their pay and working conditions. Meanwhile, the actions of governments to reduce public deficits have been undermining social cohesion and social protection for years to come” said Ludo Horemans, President of EAPN.
Read more on EAPN's proposals on the 'European Platform against Poverty' and on the first findings of the Report.
Hi all,
We are happy to invite you all to the Poverty Convention on October 18th in the Southwell Workhouse. The title of the event is: ‘What is 21st century poverty, how can it be measured and how can policy changes help to alleviate it?
Many organisations and people in the different local areas have become involved in the All in One Project and participated at local meetings, during which some very interesting and pressing issues came up. All over the East Midlands people are currently organising how they will present the outcomes and evidence locally gathered at the Poverty Convention. There are still some meetings to take place in Leicester, Rural and Coastal Lincolnshire and North Northamptonshire.
If you would like to get engaged or know some people or organisations who could contribute to the Poverty Convention, please contact us at clare@cefet.org.uk
Please click here for the Poverty Convention booking form. For some more information regarding the Poverty Convention please click here for the briefing and the flyer.
For the latest news on the convention see the new blog http://attheworkhouse.posterous.com/ which we launched with the great help of Emma Bryn-Jones from Zero-Credit. You can also become a member of our group on facebook: Atthe Workhouse!
According to BBC commissioned research the industrial areas in the North East and Midlands are the least resilient to economic shocks. Middlesbrough is ranked as the most vulnerable, followed by Mansfield and Stoke-on-Trent. The research looks at 4 key themes; business, community, people and place and suggests how different regions in England may cope with further public cuts. A number of factors have been analysed such as the amount of vulnerable and resilient industry, earnings of workers, unemployment and crime rates. The research reveals a clear North-South division.
Chancellor George Osborne announced today that there will be even greater cuts in the welfare budget. The annual welfare spending will be cut with another £4 bn on top of the £11 bn cut made in June. Mr. Osborne commented that "lifestyle choice to just sit on out-of-work benefits" would be affected and he described the welfare budget as "completely out of control". Labour and shadow business secretary Pat McFadden accused the coalition of taking a "gamble with growth and jobs" and said cuts would "hit the poorest areas hardest". The BBC also writes that apparently discussions continue on whether it is possible to limit pensioner’s benefits such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV license, which would break Prime Minister David Cameron’s election promise to preserve them.
On the website of the BBC you can find some really interesting maps that show how resilient the different regions are to economic crisis and how they may cope with the public cuts. The East Midlands and specifically the different local areas which are covered by the All in One Project linger on the bottom.
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The East Midlands Social Inclusion Policy Forum has agreed the need for a significant regional response to this
The panel after a busy morning of incisive questioning at European Funding: learning from the past, planning for the future
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Nazek Ramadan speaks about the EAPN's commitment to combating poverty post EY2010:
Our colleagues over at Community Links and Church Action on Poverty have selected five films for the final stages of the Tackling Poverty Awards. You can view the films and have your say over at:
http://www.community-links.org/linksuk/?p=2167
Neat little price pop-ups like you get in supermarket adverts - clever!
Stella Creasy has forced a government rethink on moneylending and high-cost credit. Photograph: David LeveneThere are few MPs like Stella Creasy. But it's not the fact that she is a 33-year-old woman in a parliament that is predominantly filled with older men that is the first thing her peers will mention to you. It is the fact that in just six months since she was elected a Labour Co-operative MP, she has managed to get the government to consider curbing rates on the high cost of credit for Britain's 3 million poorest borrowers.
This was no small feat. Although hundreds of thousands of poor people are propelled every year into unsustainable debt as a result of being charged excessive interest rates, the coalition government announced in the summer that it would only look at "store and credit card interest rates" as part of its review of consumer finance.
This focus on middle-class credit rather than the more onerous kind available to poorer people angered many – not least campaigners who had come together last year to end "legal loan sharking". However, the push for anti-usury laws, organised by the centre-left pressure group Compass, community organisers Citizens UK, church groups, academics and debt advice groups received a fillip last month when Creasy got widespread support for her 10-minute rule bill on regulating the "high-interest legal home credit market".
Within days, the government agreed to broaden the scope of the review and raised the prospect of regulating legal money-lending in Britain for the first time since usury laws were repealed in the 19th century. The consultation on the review ends on Friday – and campaigners are urging a mass mailshot to impress on ministers the need for action.
The issue of "legal loan sharking" is about "changing lives, not changing governments", says Creasy, who learned about the horrors of debt from her time as a councillor in Walthamstow, the area in east London she represents as an MP. Poor people would line her offices with tales of woe: falling behind on a few hundred pounds of debt and ending up in hock to a lender for 10 times that amount in a matter of months as late payment penalties and exorbitant interest mounted.
Moral argument
"I have had people in tears because they borrowed for funerals or bought computers for £2,000 because they didn't have the £500 it would have cost in Argos. It is about protecting the poorest people and, yes, it is a moral argument," she says.
Her experience is rooted in her east London constituency where "four or five" of these companies have sprung up on the high street in recent years. Creasy spends Fridays leafleting their customers, and is involved with the council to stop more arriving, while promoting credit unions – financial clubs owned and run by their members – as an alternative to high-interest loans. "It's become a marker for poverty, having these [lenders] on the high street," she says.
The MP says the present system allows for "superprofits at the expense of the poor". In her sights are payday lenders, which offer short-term cash with "technical" interest rates of up to 3,500% for a five-day loan. Then there are the hire-purchase companies that target those on low incomes who have been refused credit and offer goods for sale on expensive hire-purchase terms.
Creasy's fiercest fire is focused on the "doorstep" or home credit lending operators, which charge £82 in interest and collection charges for every £100 lent and pursue households with no full-time wage earner.
"It is a hexopoly: six lenders account for 90% of the market – with one company, Provident, accounting for 60% – and hence little competition to drive interest rates down. The case for government intervention is indisputable. It makes me really angry when the chief executive of Provident [Peter Crook] says the company would see a growth in their target audience because of the spending review's cuts."
It's worth recalling what the boss of the Bradford-based group, which charges a typical APR of 272%, actually went on to say: "When people lose their jobs in the public sector, they might well come to us. If they are forced to take temporary or part-time work, most banks wouldn't want to lend to them."
The answer, says Creasy, is to follow the rest of the world by first promoting credit unions – 40% of people in Canada are members of them, compared to just 2% in the UK. Second, the MP says it is essential to cap the total amount of borrowing. She points out that 15 American states have eliminated payday lending altogether either by introducing a ban or capping the maximum charge for credit at a low level. And 14 European nations have some form of a ceiling on the cost of borrowing.
"There are lots of ideas about restricting how many times one could borrow money. America and Canada have experimented with restricting the amount that can be lent – both Illinois and Nevada have put in place a clear requirement that loans should not exceed 25% of the borrower's income. I think ministers do not have to look far for answers."
In some ways Creasy, who has a PhD in social psychology, is asking a bigger question. As the economy grew in the last few decades, a class of people were actually becoming worse off. Even people who were making more money were living in a way that put them deeper in debt.
Big bang solution
But Creasy says this is not about a big bang solution. Politicians, she says, have to be ready to be pragmatic – achieving the possible by not advocating the impossible. "I have a duty to effect change in real time. Look, I'd love to transform the entire banking industry. I'd love to mutualise Northern Rock and intervene in financial markets. But, as Nye Bevan once said, that is about being pure and being impotent."
Perhaps this easy grasp of compromise comes from Creasy's early grasp of what was practical in politics. She became politicised as a teenager by a series of single-issue campaigns – such as the campaign to boycott Nestlé over its promotion of baby milk and another to end live animal exports. Having been taken to Labour party meetings by her father, she signed up as a party member aged 15.
"I was not a political geek," she says. "I was curious and wanted to know more. I was also a passionate indie kid. Still am. The best thing that happened to me was when David Gedge [lead singer of the Wedding Present] followed me on Twitter".
While her musical tastes may not be making a comeback, her Labour brand of politics is. Although Creasy spent her 20s working as a researcher for Labour MPs, her roots lie in community work – saving libraries, youth groups and local cinemas. She says she supported David Miliband in the Labour leadership election in part because of his idea of transforming local party organisations into community organisations.
Ed Miliband has taken up where his brother left off – backing the policy and trying to reach out to local communities. "Of course Ed's right to do it. One of the challenges for the left is that we are very good at working for people but not with them. We did not ask how can we involve you with this."
Is she a supporter of the "big society"?
She says the problem with the Tory version is that it is a re-run of Victorian debates. "We need to take back the idea of a big society. It's not about being against the state. The state is an inevitable partner. You say to people you need to do everything but then take away the funding. It's not sustainable and we found that out a century ago."
Curriculum vitae
Age 33.
Status Single.
Lives Walthamstow, east London.
Education Colchester County high school for girls, and Magdalene College, Cambridge University. PhD from the London School of Economics in social psychology.
Career May 2010-present: MP for Walthamstow; 2008-10: head of campaigns, Scout Association; 2006-08: deputy director, Involve thinktank; 2002-06: Labour councillor, deputy mayor, mayor and chief whip, Waltham Forest council; 2000-06: researcher for MPs Douglas Alexander (2002-06), Charles Clarke (2001-02) and Ross Cranston (2000-01); 1999-2000: researcher, the Jonathan Dimbleby programme.
Interests Indie music, cinema, quizzes and American crime series.
Stella Creasy MP ramping up the pressure to End Legal Loan Sharking - nice one!
Poverty and gross inequality are six times more likely than ethnic diversity to cause British people to be suspicious of their neighbours, a landmark academic paper has found – repudiating the argument that multicultural societies make people uneasy and less trusting of strangers.
Using government surveys of more than 25,000 individuals in 4,000 neighbourhoods, researchers from the University of Southampton said there was "no evidence" that levels of trust and co-operation were highest in the most "homogenous" neighbourhoods. Instead, people living in deprived areas were the most suspicious of those who don't look like them – and those that do.
"Basically it is poverty not race that makes people uneasy and not trust each other," said Patrick Sturgis, of the National Centre for Research Methods at Southampton University. "If it were somehow possible to make every neighbourhood in Britain completely ethnically homogeneous, it would have a barely perceptible impact on the extent to which the British trust people in their neighbourhoods."
Sturgis said whittling away at economic inequalities that lead to isolation and mistrust was the answer to reviving community spirit in much of Britain. The study also shows that Britain's crisis in "social capital" – leading to less volunteering, fewer close friends, lower rates of happiness and perceived quality of life – has roots in poverty.
"We need to pump money into these places rather than argue it is multiculturalism which is causing communities to fall apart. There's no evidence for it."
Sturgis said his team's work, to be published in the British Journal of Political Science, was a riposte to that of the Harvard academic Robert Putnam, who in 2007 first argued that diversity reduces trust since people "act like turtles", hunkering down to avoid those who are somehow different.
Putnam, who was closely associated with New Labour and a frequent visitor to Downing Street, wrote three years ago that "inhabitants of diverse communities tend to withdraw from collective life, to distrust their neighbours regardless of the colour of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, give less to charity … work on community projects less often [and] register to vote less."
Since then the idea that diversity makes people anti-social has become mainstream wisdom. "We have seen Trevor Phillips [the Equality and Human Rights Commission chairman], David Goodhart [the Prospect magazine founder] and David Blunkett [the former home secretary] all advance this thesis. They have all been quite pessimistic, arguing that immigration is leading to segregated communities and distrustful citizens. But the evidence in Britain is that diversity has an almost negligible effect on how much people trusted each other," he said.
The flaw was to "translate" a uniquely American experience to Britain. Sturgis said the US studies often used "poor data and inappropriate analysis methods" but also did not factor in "the history of the ethnic composition of neighbourhoods which is hugely coloured by the legacy of slavery … we cannot assume that this translates easily to the UK context."
The concerns about multiculturalism were taken up by politicians on the right, too – especially those preoccupied with the putative social consequences of waves of immigrants entering the country.
Sturgis said that for the last five years immigration had become associated with undermining "community cohesion, civic engagement and trust". But he said many had deliberately chosen to conflate poverty and diversity. "In reality, immigrants do find themselves living in poorer areas so we can see how the two issues have been confused."
Your thoughts?
The volume is variable on these sound files as some commentators from the audience were not very loud, however, there are snippets of experience shared that are well worth listening out for. We recommend wearing headphones if you have them.
Remember at the Poverty Convention we all agreed that our work should not end there?
Well, we're delighted to inform you of some forthcoming changes to the www.allinone-em.org.uk website, which will help this to happen. We are going to streamline to a far simpler format, which will make it easier to keep in touch and to continue to engage an outside audience. This East Midlands anti-poverty community blog is a part of that process. That’s all for now except to say thank you making the AllinOne project so successful and we look forward to sharing its equally successful future with you!
One Woman's Personal Journey (via Melanie Jeffs)
I've just uploaded a file sent to me by Linda Granville, a Church Related Community Worker in Hyson Green and Forest Fields.
This piece of writing is her own personal journey through poverty over the years, her work to help others in a similar position, and her observations on the roots causes of poverty and the discrimination and oppression that runs alongside.
Well worth a read.
Here's the link: http://silo.grou.ps.s3.amazonaws.com/wysiwyg_files/FilesModule/cefet/20100721...
via Rob
Yesterday's Event was excellent. The Venue, Food, Speakers, Delegates, National Trust Staff ... even the weather was favourable.
Well done - I hope yesterday adds to the work already done on EY2010.
Mansfield second most vulnerable area in England for public cuts and economic shocks
According to a BBC commissioned research the industrial areas in the North East and Midlands are the least resilient to economic shocks. Middlesbrough is ranked as the most vulnerable, followed by Mansfield and Stoke-on-Trent. The research looks at 4 key themes; business, community, people and place and suggests how different regions in England may cope with further public cuts. A number of factors have been analysed such as the amount of vulnerable and resilient industry, earnings of workers, unemployment and crime rates. The research reveals a clear North-South division.
Chancellor George Osborne announced today that there will be even greater cuts in the welfare budget. The annual welfare spending will be cut with another £4 bn on top of the £11 bn cut made in June. Mr. Osborne commented that "lifestyle choice to just sit on out-of-work benefits" would be affected and he described the welfare budget as "completely out of control". Labour and shadow business secretary Pat McFadden accused the coalition of taking a "gamble with growth and jobs" and said cuts would "hit the poorest areas hardest". The BBC also writes that apparently discussions continue on whether it is possible to limit pensioner’s benefits such as the winter fuel allowance, bus pass and free TV license, which would break Prime Minister David Cameron’s election promise to preserve them.
On the website of the BBC you can find some really interesting maps that show how resilient the different regions are to economic crisis and how they may cope with the public cuts. The East Midlands and specifically the different local areas which are covered by the All in One Project linger on the bottom.
Outcome of two Listening Events in Bolsover
In Bolsover the Community Voluntary Partners held two listening events with long term unemployed people. You can read the main barriers and myths regarding poverty identified on the meeting of the 30th June 2010 here. The report on the two listening events highlights three main myths/ policy changes. For more information click here.
from Rob:
I am doing the Great Scottish Run in Glasgow to raise funds for CEFET. It is a personal contribution to EY2010 to show that living in poverty/experiencing social exclusion/having a mental health diagnosis/living in a rural area are barriers that can be overcome to 'give back' something to CEFET for the work they have done in the past and continue doing so well. (see Profile on justgiving page) Please contribute online and Girt Aid if possible - thank you.
Community Links and Church Action on Poverty events on working-age poverty
Nearly 500 people have already participated in the listening events on working-age poverty organised by Community Links and Church Action on Poverty.
On following webpage some of the feedback on the events is recorded and people who attended can as well make comments.
http://www.community-links.org/our-national-work/listening-campaigns/
Also, there is a competition: ‘The Tackling Poverty Awards’ that aims to shine a light on projects which prove support to people of working-age living on a low income in the UK:
“Four successful shortlisted projects will win a digital camera and the chance to make a film about their work. All longlisted projects will feature in a publication highlighting their work. And the winner will be announced at a presentation event in London in November.”
The closing date is on august 27th, for more information see:
http://www.community-links.org/our-national-work/tackling-poverty-award/
High Peak residents talk about rural isolation and childcare costs
A mixture of people came together to express their experiences of living on a low income in the rural, and generally isolated areas of the High Peak District at a Listening event in Bakewell on the 16th of July 2010.
Different issues came up during the discussion. One of the main specific problems of the life in rural areas is isolation, often followed by loneliness and depression. The life of some farmers is for example very stressful and secluded. Also, some people feel discrimination and racism when living in a predominantly white rural area.
Other major issues are the high transport costs and the lack of efficient public transport. This restricts people in going to college or with finding a job, which is specifically harmful in a place where job opportunities are already few and it is generally difficult to make a living.
Members of a young mums group talked about how important it was for them to get together and provide support for each other. They also shared the difficulties they had around moving into employment, with affordable childcare being the biggest issue.
Full report at http://allinone-em.posterous.com/high-peak-bakewell-listening-event
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Leigh Turnock and Steph Goodwin talk about the support NMYWG has provided them as young mums.
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In each room of The Workhouse, delegates meet service providers and users from a range of grassroots projects across the East Midlands. Few want to move on, because the conversations are so engaging.
Useful prompts for those struggling with unmanageable debts, but for many of our delegates household budgets are below what is needed to survive.
"Even less than you imagine" was a performance devised by the Inspire Nottingham Drama group.
Sam shares a breakdown of advice given by type. By far the greatest majority is for housing and benefits, which is disconcerting given the impending cuts to these.
'Labour's biggest improvement on previous Tories was to identify the scale of inequality in the UK, but did little to really change it.'
only 1 in 6 to be lifted out of poverty from EU 2010 targets...
The background noise is heating ;-(
Addressing the East Midlands Poverty Convention on Monday 18th October 2010, Green Party MEP, Jean Lambert outlines current European thinking on minimum income standards across the EU.
Speaking about the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion, and the work happening across the EU to end poverty.
Intro from One East Midlands and CEFET on the different groups represented at #PovCon; those who've experienced poverty, those who support people who have experienced poverty, and decision makers from different levels of government.
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