Poverty

New B&M store launches

B&M's revamped store launches

Lana, James and Danielle at The Brick

Charity tea fundraiser in aid of homeless women

Armstrong Nield Cup Winners

Homelessness charity's £15k boost from football tournament

The Brick smashes its £7K target!

Brick community food hub campaign hits its target

Not all children grow up surrounded by love and care but all children should show gratitude if they do

Nanny Diaries: growing up with empathy

Lea Manor school in Luton will have uniforms donated by easyJet.

easyJet is turning thousands of old crew outfits into school uniforms

New Department for Work and Pensions figures show 211 households receiving Universal Credit in Wigan had their income capped in November 2024 – up 26 per cent from 167 a year earlier

Benefit cap affects more local residents

A statue has been unveiled as part of a campaign to highlight the issue of pensioner poverty this winter.

'Freezing and forgotten': Ice sculpture leads winter fuel cuts plea

Ollie Foster and his dog Bowie make deliveries for The Brick

Labradoodle puppy helps charity ‘spread kindness one delivery at a time’

Social media apps displayed on a mobile phone screen. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Free data and texts from these 12 phone shops near you

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Sir Keir Starmer speaks at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Watch: Keir Starmer addresses reason for cuts to winter fuel allowance

A police tent in West Park in Wolverhampton following a stabbing.

Watch: Region records highest rate of knife crime offences
Region with the highest rate of knife crime offences in England and Wales revealed - data explained in video.
Richard Gullick

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Munira Wilson MP says schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’.

Watch: Schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy MP: we must take action to tackle poverty

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

Wigan MP Lisa Nandy

Lisa Nandy MP: Plan needed to tackle child poverty

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley announces UK tour - full details

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament
Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused Tories of ‘blocking’ her Free School Meals For All bill after its second reading in Parliament was rescheduled on Friday (January 20).
Ethan Evans

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

Bride Ruth Gaspar arrives at her wedding on a tricycle with her 87-year-old dad Tony Newton

Wigan bride swaps wedding car for tricycle pedalled by her pensioner father

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

Wearing silly socks for The Brick

Wigan charity says 'sock it' to poverty in fund-raising campaign

Compassion in Action and the Beacon Counselling Trust

Charities mark five years of helping Wigan gambling addicts

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