church and society
economic crisis
poverty
Get Fair campaign
A major campaign, launched in September 2008, mobilising many organisations and networks already working on various aspects of the big problem of ‘poverty', which is being coordinated by Church Action on Poverty. Its aims are:
- To mobilise public opinion to support action to tackle poverty in the UK.
- To secure the commitment of all major political parties to deliver on their existing commitment to end child poverty by 2020 and to extend this goal to ending poverty across all the generations in the UK by 2020.
The campaign will draw on fundamental human rights principles of equality, dignity and respect for everyone living in the UK, at all life stages, having:
- A decent, adequate income.
- The right not to be marginalized or excluded from society.
- Equal opportunities and fair access to services.
- Neighbourhoods that secure health and wellbeing.
For more information, see:
Get Fair 
Church Action on Poverty .
Poverty and Homelessness Action Week
31 January - 8 February 2009
After the first ever Poverty & Homelessness Action Week in 2008, the three partners behind the project - Church Action on Poverty, Scottish Churches Housing Action and Housing Justice - have been busy laying the foundations of PHAW 2009. This is a unique, annual opportunity for churches, church groups and others to raise the profile of poverty, housing and homelessness related issues within local churches and the wider community.
Just Church
A programme of action/reflection, developed by Church Action on Poverty in partnership with other churches/agencies, aiming to help local churches to integrate concerns for poverty and social justice into the lives and faith journeys of congregations and individual Christians.
Micah Challenge UK is a coalition of Christian organisations and churches in Britain united in their concern to fight global poverty, set up after world leaders signed up in 2000 to the Millennium Development Goals to halve global poverty by 2015. Micah Sunday is 19 October.
CAFOD
Poverty pages including Financial Crisis: A CAFOD Briefing.
Scottish Churches Parliamentary Office briefing paper:
Poverty - Who Cares? SCPO briefing paper (PDF)
The Joint Public Issues Team of the Baptist, Methodist and United Reformed Churches has produced a leaflet on child poverty .
The End Child Poverty campaign is a widely supported coalition whose members include the Church of England and many Christian organisations.
