Challenge Poverty Week 2024

CHALLENGE POVERTY WEEK OCTOBER 14TH TO 20TH 

VISITS TO PROJECTS 

We are asking  projects working to address issues of poverty and marginalisation to get involved. We are asking you to invite local leaders, including M.P.’s and Local Councillors, to visit your project to show case the excellent work you do and to offer to your visitors insights into why so many people in our communities are suffering from poverty. 

Please email in photos of visits and a short comment on your project’s work to info@cornwallindependentpovertyforum.com Do include the attached Banner for CPW 2024  in the picture ! A report will be prepared and widely distributed to raise awareness of the issues and to try and influence local and central government planning and policy making, with a view to making positive changes in regard to poverty. The report will  contain all the photos submitted as well as a series of articles on the Tackling the Housing Crisis in Cornwall. 

OCTOBER 24TH  “Housing & Homelessness in Cornwall: from Prevention to Provision”

In support of Challenge Poverty Week and this year’s theme of Housing And Homelessness, Cornwall Independent Poverty Forum and the Living Wage Place for Cornwall Action Group invite you to an event:

9.30 arrival for registration. Start 10am -12 noon Thursday 24th October 2024

Venue Falmouth University 

Format: Panel of 5 speakers, 10 minutes each on an aspect of housing and homelessness followed by an open forum discussion and questions with the panel.  

The Panel is scheduled to be:

A Homelessness Prevention Officer

A roughsleeping Housing Resettlement worker

A speaker on the link between low pay and housing affordability

Speaker on scale and need

Coastline Housing speaker on provision.

If you want to attend this event please email Simon Fann at Truro Foodbank via simonf@truro.foodbank.org.uk