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  • 10 Sep 2008
    Make poverty in the UK history, says new alliance

    A new alliance of religious and secular groups committed to cooperation to "make poverty history in the UK" is to be launched on Thursday 11 September 2008, with involvement from major churches and Christian agencies.

  • 16 Jul 2008
    Government asked for prompt action to address rural inequality

    A church group has repeated its call for action to end inequality outside Britain's main urban areas. It comes as a new report shows that poverty and inequality are growing in Britain’s rural communities even faster than in towns and cities

  • 18 Jun 2008
    Get Fair creative campaign workshop

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  • 10 Jun 2008
    Just Hope

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  • 9 Apr 2008
    Church agency says Brown is 'Robin Hood in reverse'

    Church Action on Poverty has called on the Government to reconsider changes in the last Budget which have increased tax for the poorest families.

  • 1 Apr 2008
    Report finds huge failings in asylum system

    Church Action on Poverty (CAP) has warmly welcomed a new report which finds significant failings in the UK asylum system. The report condemns the Government policy of making refused asylum-seekers destitute.

  • 20 Mar 2008
    A hundred live as failed asylum seekers during Lent

    An initiative in which 100 people have lived as failed asylum seekers for a week in a 'visible act of solidarity', comes to an end this Saturday. The people frpom across the country spent a week this Lent living on £3.50 and a typical food parcel in a project co-ordinated by the Boaz Trust.

  • 7 Mar 2008
    Christians in Oldham living as refused asylum seekers

    A number of Christians from Oldham are joining the national Endurance Challenge, backed by Church Action on Poverty, in which they attempt to live off £6.50 for food and £3.50 for transport for a week.

  • 6 Feb 2008
    Christians challenged to live as failed asylum seekers during Lent

    National ecumenical charity Church Action on Poverty is urging people to take on the life of someone who has been refused asylum, for a week during Lent, in order to understand what it is like to be in their shoes.

  • 23 Jan 2008
    Churches galvanise for public action on poverty and homelessness

    Church agencies in Britain will be combining efforts during Poverty and Homelessness Action Week, from 26 January to 3 February, to highlight both the human face of inequality and the need to make it a public policy priority.