No child in a home without a kitchen

The Magpie Project

Imagine trying to prepare three meals a day for your family with no fridge, no cooker, no hob, no microwave – not just for a week or two but for months on end. Join this call for a ban on the use of hotels with no kitchens to house families with children under five.

Guarantee Our Essentials

Trussell

As we approach another difficult winter, our food banks cannot make up for the failures of a social security system that should be there to support any of us facing tough times.

Ask your MP to write to the Chancellor, urging her to take three urgent actions to protect people facing hardship this winter.

Save the Winter Fuel Payment

Age UK

The proposed cut to the Winter Fuel Payment that means only those receiving Pension Credit or other means-tested benefits will receive it. This will leave millions of struggling pensioners without money they rely on.

Help to save the Winter Fuel Payment for struggling pensioners.  

Childcare for All

Praxis

The UK Government must make sure its childcare system is truly universal – and stop excluding children because of the fine print on their parents’ visas.

This Government are stopping parents from standing on their own two feet by depriving them of access to vital services, leaving families struggling even more during the cost-of-living crisis. Every child, no matter their race, class or immigration status, has the right to a fair start in life.

Stop the Waiting

Praxis

The current cruel immigration system makes people wait for 10, 20 or even 30 years before they can get the right to stay here permanently. The system is complicated, stressful and expensive. Applicants have to find thousands of pounds (£9,662 for a family of four) every few years to renew visas. Many are forced into debt by these fees.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Right now, the Government is reviewing its immigration policies and could make some simple changes that would help us feel like we belong.

Help us imagine a better future

Child Poverty Action Group

4.3 million children are growing up in poverty in the UK. They are isolated and excluded. The government must address child poverty by:

• Removing the two-child limit on benefits 
• Scrapping the benefit cap
• Raising child benefit by £20 a week 
• Rolling out free school meals for all school pupils  

Living Wage Week 4-10 November 2024

Living Wage Foundation

Living Wage Week is the annual celebration of the Living Wage movement. The movement has never been more important than against the backdrop of spiralling prices and a cost of living crisis, so why not get involved to celebrate the employers and individuals pushing the movement forward and encourage others to join the movement of over 15,000 accredited employers.

Let’s win change for renters

Shelter

Home is our foundation. It’s the roots that help us build a thriving and healthy life. But right now, too many private renters are denied this foundation because the system is stacked against them: Nearly 26,000 households were threatened with homelessness due to a section 21 eviction last year.  

This new Renters’ Rights Bill must be a new chapter for rental reform. The chance to give every renter the roots to grow.  

Campaign for Disability Justice

Coordinated by Inclusion Barnet

We all want a decent quality of life for ourselves and those we care about. Yet two million Disabled people are trapped in deep poverty know change is possible, because some changes have already happened in the past.

We want the Government to work with organisations led by Disabled people to make workplaces easier to access and to improve social security so that everyone can live a decent life, whether they’re in work or not. 

#PlanForThe136K

A UK wide movement of over 100 charities calling for a strategy to end youth homelessness

In 2022-23 135,800 16–25-year-olds presented at their local authority as homeless or at risk of homelessness. Many young people experiencing homelessness remain hidden, not showing up in the data, so this figure could easily be double and with COVID and the cost-of-living crisis, it’s getting worse.

Make Childcare Make Sense

4in10 London’s Child Poverty Network

Childcare costs are a major driver of child poverty in the city and access to affordable and accessible childcare and early education is essential to tackling child poverty.

Watch this short film in which mums talk about what having free, accessible child would mean to them and share it with your MP.

The Good Childhood

The Children’s Society

Every child deserves a good childhood where they are happy, healthy and safe. But the Good Childhood Report shows that 15-year-olds in the UK are, on average, the unhappiest in Europe.

There are 6 key steps the Government must take to reverse the decline in children’s wellbeing. One of these is to end child poverty by ending the two-child limit and benefit cap and introducing a Child Poverty Act to enshrine targets and actions in legislation.

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