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North Ayrshire Single Shared Assessment Project (NASSA)
The project aims to establish a single process for customers to access all entitlements and support, ensuring they are routed to the correct service. It will also allow NAC to capture data for reporting and identifying future eligibility. A Single Shared Assessment will enable faster assistance, supporting residents with both immediate and long-term help to break the cycle of poverty. The project …
Money Advice Referral Tool (MART)
The Money Advice Referral Tool (MART) primarily targets frontline supporters in the Greater Manchester area who engage with people experiencing financial difficulties and poverty. So far, seven borough-specific MARTs have been developed by Resolve Poverty (formerly Greater Manchester Poverty Action) in partnership with local authorities, The Trussell Trust, voluntary organisations, community group…
Healthier Wealthier Children (Greater Glasgow and Clyde) - income maximisation support to prevent child poverty during early years
Healthier Wealthier Children is a project of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC) that works closely with antenatal and community child health services to target pregnant women and families with young children experiencing, or at risk of, child poverty, as costs increase, and employment patterns change around the birth of a child. The project aims to prevent families from falling into child pov…
Lived Experiences Online Forum (Aberdeenshire Council) - facilitating a discussion space to gather lived experience feedback on poverty services
The Aberdeenshire Lived Experience Online Forum is a discussion group hosted by Aberdeenshire Council. The forum’s main objective is to provide a discussion space for the Council, communities and people with lived experience of poverty to identify the challenges of living in poverty in Aberdeenshire. This is hosted so the Council can improve its existing support services. The discussions are held …
Aberdeen is Jist Scunnered (Aberdeen) - creating support networks and promoting political activism to tackle poverty
Aberdeen is Jist Scunnered is a group of individuals and organisations concerned about inequality and inequitable distribution of wealth. The project defines itself as a radical political platform that aims for political change through local discussion groups that raise political awareness and encourage broader political participation in deprived communities. The group is focused on questioning th…
NHSGGC Emergency Food on Discharge (Greater Glasgow and Clyde) - mitigating immediate food poverty for discharged NHS patients
An NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) Acute Services partnership project to mitigate the impact of the cost-of-living crisis amongst socioeconomically deprived inpatients upon discharge back into the community. Provided by NHSGGC’s Aroma Café on the day of discharge, the two-day food package of fresh and non-perishable foods is provided by Aroma Café and Trussell Trust food banks within Greate…
Walking, thinking, and talking: An exploration of the lived experiences and hidden geographies of poverty (Dublin) – a participatory research project
The Walking, thinking and talking project documented the voices of people living in poverty in Ireland by using photographs, sound files, video/film, drawing/mapping, and drawing on a creative, walking-based methodology. The project was conducted by researchers from Trinity College Dublin in partnership with All Together in Dignity (ATD) Ireland. Through the project, an artefact in the form of an …
Onwards and Upwards (Falkirk) - targeted student support to reduce the poverty-related attainment gap
The Onwards and Upwards programme aims to close the poverty-related attainment gap. This is done by removing barriers to learning and providing targeted support with the hope of allowing all pupils at Braes High School the same opportunity to excel to their fullest potential. The Onwards and Upwards programme also helps to build strong and positive relationships, to engage learners and raise aspir…
Flexible Food and Fuel Fund, FFFF (Argyll and Bute) - advice and support for immediate food and fuel poverty emergencies
Post COVID legacy Project. Argyll and Bute’s partner incentivisation scheme provides service users with one-off cash funds to meet immediate (food, fuel poverty) emergencies in conjunction with targeted household and financial advice from Bute Advice Centre and anti-fuel poverty advice from ALIenergy Where grants are not suitable due to preset criteria, support is offered through referrals to Bute…
Making it Work for Lone Parents (Mid Fife) - tackling child poverty by supporting parent employability
The project is delivered in partnership with Fife Gingerbread and Citizens Advice and Rights Fife, and is centred around tackling child poverty. Empowering lone parents on their journey towards work, education and/or training through a holistic approach to employability, that is delivered at a pace that meets the needs of the family rather than the expected outputs of the funder.