A collaboration between low-income parents, researchers and charities, documenting life in poverty and pushing for change.
Funding snapshot
- Programme area:
- Improving social security
- Amount:
- £88,000
- Length of grant:
- 2025-2027
The challenge
Our social security system should provide a safety net to all of us when we need it most, and guarantee that nobody has to go without essentials. But the current social security system often doesn’t cover the basics of living and means that many millions of people are living in poverty.
Poverty is especially high in London, where families face particular challenges around very high housing costs, and unaffordable childcare.
The project
Changing Realities is a collaboration between almost 200 parents and carers on low-incomes, researchers at the University of York and Salford, and the Child Poverty Action Group. It works to document life in poverty and to produce recommendations for change.
Our funding will support it over the next two years, as it aims to ensure that the voices of parents on a low-income are included in policymaking processes, which include the forthcoming Child Poverty Strategy.
Visit the Changing Realities website to explore its work documenting life on a low income.
