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Quaker Social Action retweeted
Our £1.1 million grant programme supported #FinancialEducation organisations to work with teachers and practitioners to improve the financial wellbeing of children and young people in vulnerable circumstances.
Download our evaluation report:
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
This #ChallengePoverty Week in #Scotland, we're proud to partner with @CaledoniaCrem and @PovertyAlliance in our joint campaign calling on the Scottish Government to increase the flat rate of the Funeral Support Payment to £2,484.
#CPW24 #FuneralPoverty @QSA
ALT Text: The flat rate of the Funeral Support Payment only pays around 50% of the average funeral director fees for a simple ‘Attended Funeral’. We call on the Scottish Government to increase it to £2,484, so people on the lowest incomes are not forced into debt. Image: a black woman with hair in bunches wearing an orange poncho using a loud hailer.
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Join our August digital forum (Thu 22 Aug, 1030-1130) where focus will be on childcare costs. Come prepped for a discussion and we will hear a policy perspective from Emily / @4in10 and practical elements of money guidance from Ruth / @savechildrenuk Reg: eventbrite.co.uk/e/money-gui…
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Would you know how to spot the signs of a gambling-related financial harm?
Join @MoneyGuidersEng and learn how to identify the signs of gambling and where to signpost those who are affected.
🗓️Tues 13 August
🕚11 - 12.30pm
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
The riots are more than "thuggery" – they are violent racist acts aimed at expelling people from our communities because they are Muslim, Black or brown, or migrants. Politicians and the media have upheld inequality of wealth and power by scapegoating people for decades.
ALT A statement from The Equality Trust on the racist riots in the UK.
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Free and online on 18 Jun (10.30-12.30) Carrie and Alison from Made of Money @QSA explore working sensitively with vulnerable people in money guidance. This workshop arose out of their Money Springboard project working primarily with care leavers. Register eventbrite.co.uk/e/911969333…
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Lindesay Mace, whose colleagues at the Quaker Social Action (@QSA) funeral poverty project Down to Earth provide advice for those struggling with funeral costs, has said they've seen a 60% increase in people looking for help...
What is the best way to plan an affordable funeral? Adam Shaw has been finding out...
Funeral Costs: The Price of Dying | Reported by @AdamShawBiz | ITV1 | 8:30pm
Quaker Social Action retweeted
The Competition & Markets Authority says around 10% of #funeral directors (250) are not complying with the law, many of them failing to display required pricing details. Leaving #bereaved people without the info they need at a deeply challenging time. 1/3
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
Overcoming barriers to good practice in money guidance
Thursday 14 March 10.15-15.30, Stretford Public Hall, FREE
moneyguidersmanchester.event…
with inspiring speakers, facilitated discussion, free lunch, find actionable take aways to support people who come to you for help with money.
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Join #moneyguiders in Manchester on 14 March for our fully-funded event on overcoming barriers to good practice in money guidance. Inspirational speakers. Facilitated discussions. Work together for actionable takeaways. Make a real difference: eventbrite.co.uk/e/overcomin…
Quaker Social Action retweeted
URGENT DEADLINE APPROACHING
Time is running out for cohabiting parents to claim back payments of #bereavement benefits. Claims MUST be with @DWPgovuk on 8 Feb to get the money owed.
Please repost to help find the 000s of families still to claim. For info: childhoodbereavementnetwork.…
Quaker Social Action retweeted
We wholeheartedly support this call for an increase to the Funeral Support Payment in Scotland.
We call for the same for the Funeral Expenses Payment in the rest of the UK.
The average awards for both payments is less than 50% of the average cost of a simple #funeral.
#poverty
As campaigners against funeral poverty in Scotland, we are calling on @scotgov to revisit their support for bereaved families in Scotland.
Join the discussion at our online summit 31/01/24.
#funeralcosts @SunLifeUK #bereavement #costofliving #poverty
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
We're pleased to have worked with @SunLifeUK to highlight the impact of unaffordable funeral costs on people's health, now covered in their #CostofDying report for the first time in 20 yrs.
The findings echo what @QSA clients have been saying for years🧵
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
Continuing our #TalkMoney #DoOneThing #highlights for #moneyguiders here are some suggestions from @ThamesbankCU (serving people in London Boroughs of Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston Upon Thames, Richmond Upon Thames, Wandsworth and in the Borough of Spelthorne) to consider:
What 'one thing' could you do to improve your financial wellbeing this week?
Here are some of our suggestions. #TalkMoney #DoOneThing #thamesbank #creditunions
Quaker Social Action retweeted
Thousands of widowed parents whose cohabiting partner died haven’t yet claimed back payments of bereavement benefits - the window closes 8 Feb 2024.
Please spread the word & #Findthe21k families bereaved as long ago as 2001 who could be eligible. @QSA
childhoodbereavementnetwork.…
Quaker Social Action retweeted
We were delighted to attend @JustFairUK’s human rights conference yesterday looking at poverty in the UK. The situation is dire and UN Rapporteur @DeSchutterO says the UK Government is asleep at the wheel.
It's time for human rights based solutions. #FightPovertyWithRights
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Quaker Social Action retweeted
Poverty rates for individual boroughs aren’t statistically reliable enough to compare poverty rates in any one borough with all of the others.
But we can say which boroughs have broadly higher – and lower – levels of poverty, compared to the rest of London
ALT A map showing London boroughs with significantly above or below average levels of poverty, compared to the rest of London
Quaker Social Action retweeted
In the UK in 2022 around 3.8 million people experienced destitution.
Destitution is when people cannot afford to meet their most basic physical needs to stay warm, dry, clean and fed
This is their experience.
Share and #DontIgnoreDestitution
Quaker Social Action retweeted
When Terumi was 19 her mother died. Now a PhD student, she's researching the financial impact of losing a parent in early & emerging adulthood.
It's welcome research. We support a lot of young people in this position & know how devastating it can be.
parentaldeath.net/ @QSA
Quaker Social Action retweeted
The Government must increase the funeral expenses payment amount and widen the eligibility.
“People are dying in Southampton without enough money to pay for their own funeral.” Professor Brown, chair of @lovesoton.
#CostOfLivingCrisis #funeralpoverty
dailyecho.co.uk/news/2383383…
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