Podcasts about Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Listen back to FMQs! Questions this week included: Kevin Stewart  To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the recent CBI report, which reportedly suggests that businesses are preparing to “cut staff and raise prices”. Jackson Carlaw  To ask the First Minister whether he will join HM The King and other world leaders in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz extermination camp and offer his reflections on the theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day, "For a Better Future". Collette Stevenson  To ask the First Minister, in light of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report, UK Poverty 2025, whether he will provide an update on the Scottish Government's actions to tackle poverty in Scotland, including in relation to any potential impact of planned UK Government welfare reforms. Transcripts are available on our website: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/official-report/search-what-was-said-in-parliament 

Claire Ainsley is a stalwart of left-wing politics. Formerly an executive director at social change organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, she is currently leading a project on the renewal of the centre-left at the Progressive Policy Institute. Her first book, The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes, brought her to the attention of the Labour leadership. Not long after Keir Starmer's successful leadership bid, she was invited to join him as Executive Director of Policy, a position she held for over two years. On the podcast, Claire talks to Katy Balls about her journey on the left, from a Labour-supporting family to radical university politics and then to a more moderate position. They discuss the changing dynamics of the left and how to define ‘working class', how her book came about because of the Clacton by-election, and her reflections on British politics following the election. Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

Claire Ainsley is a stalwart of left-wing politics. Formerly an executive director at social change organisation the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, she is currently leading a project on the renewal of the centre-left at the Progressive Policy Institute. Her first book, The New Working Class: How to Win Hearts, Minds and Votes, brought her to the attention of the Labour leadership. Not long after Keir Starmer's successful leadership bid, she was invited to join him as Executive Director of Policy, a position she held for over two years. On the podcast, Claire talks to Katy Balls about her journey on the left, from a Labour-supporting family to radical university politics and then to a more moderate position. They discuss the changing dynamics of the left and how to define ‘working class', how her book came about because of the Clacton by-election, and her reflections on British politics following the election. Produced by Patrick Gibbons.

Time. You work on a human timescale, but the planet doesn't.  Sometimes we can think long term but mostly real life gets in the way: but the decisions we collectively take will have a huge impact on life on Earth now, and for generations to come.  What are the biases that peg us to short term thinking? How can we shift our perspective to the day after tomorrow, and how can that help everyday life? And what do pigeons have to do with it? Joining Dave this episode is Ella Saltmarshe, Director of the Long Time Project and co-founder of Internarratives. She's also the host of the Long Time Academy podcast and a general all round nice egg.  We talk about how to be a good ancestor, and yes: how to talk to pigeons. Owl noises: 14:25 - Here's present bias in a nutshell. 20:55 - a New York Times article by Seligman about Homo Prospectus. 28:40 - Decca Aitkenhead's Times article on taking smartphones off her kids.  29:02 - Jonathan Haidt's campaign to stop kids having smartphones.  38:46 - Artist Katie Paterson.  39:51 - A Guardian review of Martin MacInnes's In Ascension. 40:20 - Here's the Marshmallow Laser Feast collective, including Treehugger.   43:48 - The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's Imagination Infrastructures project. Your Brain on Climate is a podcast about human psychology vs the climate crisis: what we think, why we think it, and how it all adds up to a planet-sized emergency.  Contact the show:  @brainclimate on Twitter, or hello@yourbrainonclimate.com. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/yourbrainonclimate. The show is hosted and produced by me, Dave Powell, who you can find @powellds on Twitter.  Original music by me too. Show logo by Arthur Stovell at www.designbymondial.com.  

From April, 2.7 million workers will get one of the biggest pay rises in UK history as the National Living Wage rises to £11.44 an hour. But will they feel better off?It's 25 years since the National Minimum Wage was introduced. During that time it's credited with putting billions of extra pounds in the pockets of low-paid workers. But, despite that, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, two thirds of households living in poverty have at least one adult in work. And, according to the Institute for Fiscal studies, far from cutting the annual benefits bill, the cost of benefits paid to working families has ballooned since 1999 to about 50 billion pounds a year. So what's behind this low pay puzzle? And what can employers, governments and workers do to ensure that work pays? Pauline Mason investigates.Presenter: Pauline Mason Producer: Ravi Naik Editor: Clare Fordham.Contributors: Kate Bell, TUC Assistant General Secretary and former low pay commissioner Damian Grimshaw, Professor of Employment Studies, Kings College London and London & South Forum Co-Lead at the Productivity Institute Patricia Findlay, Distinguished Professor of Work and Employment Relations, University of Strathclyde, and Director of the Scottish Centre for Employment Research Matthew Fell, Low Pay Commissioner and Director of Competitiveness at BusinessLDN Nye Cominetti, Principal Economist, the Resolution Foundation James Cockett, Labour Market Economist, CIPD Margaret Esapa, Managing Director and owner, Cherry Care Services, Oxfordshire Conor Taylor, Director, Foresso

New UK government figures have revealed the sharpest increase in absolute poverty in the UK for more than 30 years. According to official statistics, 600,000 extra people came into this category last year. Rising energy prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine are partly to blame, but that doesn't tell the whole story. According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation the trend has been getting worse for decades. Their most recent report published in January outlined how current levels of poverty are around 50% higher than they were in the 1970s – before Margaret Thatcher came to powe. Adrian Goldberg hears from Joe Elliott, analysis manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Jospeh Howes, from Chief Exec of Buttle UK, which provides grants for children and young people in crisis. He is also Chair of the End Child Poverty Coalition.Produced in Birmingham by Adrian Goldberg. Funded by subscriptions to the Byline Times. Made by We Bring Audio for Byline Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did the Chancellor's much anticipated pre-election budget fall flat? Nish and Coco pick over the details and wonder why our public services are being sacrificed for the sake of tax cuts. There's reaction from Westminster from political journalist Kiran Stacey, who says that there are signs of the budget unravelling already. Rachelle Earwaker from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it does nothing for the poorest in society, calling it a budget for “big earners and big owners”.Find out how a sleepy corner of Devon could be about to shake up our political system. Fed up of a first past the post system that's delivered a Tory MP for the last 99 years, voters in Totnes are organising their own series of primaries to pick a progressive candidate to oust their MP Anthony Mangnall. Could it catch on in other places too?There's an International Women's Day theme to this week's hero and villain…find out what Lucy Moore and the Newry, Mourne and Down District Council have done to deserve their accolades. Meanwhile Coco's got a bone to pick with King Harold of 1066 fame, plus there are tales of micro-pigs, badgers and naughtiness at Disneyland.Pod Save the UK is a Reduced Listening production for Crooked Media. Contact us via email: PSUK@reducedlistening.co.ukWhatsApp: 07514 644 572 (UK) or + 44 7514 644 572Insta: https://instagram.com/podsavetheukTwitter: https://twitter.com/podsavetheukTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@podsavetheukFacebook: https://facebook.com/podsavetheukYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/podsavetheworldGuests:Kiran Stacey, political correspondent at The GuardianRachelle Earwaker, senior economist at The Joseph Rowntree FoundationAudio credits:parliamentlive.tvX / @SDevonPrimaryX / @lucyajmmooreUseful links:https://www.jrf.org.uk/https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america/

In this episode, Rachel Stephenson Sheff and Emily Collins-Ellis speak with Cassie Robinson about the need to invest in ‘imagination infrastructure' to support communities in developing practices around collective imagination to envision new futures beyond the status quo. Cassie holds roles with Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Arising Quo, and Pro Bono Economics. **** This episode is sponsored by Segal Family Foundation, and our Media Partner is Alliance Magazine. Head to www.alliancemagazine.org and get 50% off your Alliance subscription with the code ‘WhatDonorsWant' at checkout. https://www.cassierobinson.work/

Would you know if your employees were living in poverty? What signs would you see? Would a drop in performance towards the end of the month be something you would ever associate with poverty, questioning whether some people are rationing food because they have no more money? This might sound extreme, but with the findings from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation highlighting how millions of employees are living in poverty, what does this mean to the role of the employer? Join Amrit as he explores this topic in this week's podcast.

This is a special edition of the Standard, in support of the Evening Standard and Comic Relief's Winter Survival Campaign.The cost of living crisis has become so entrenched that for many, Christmas is effectively cancelled.According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the number of UK families categorised as destitute has more than doubled in the last five years.In the Rowntree study, 3.8 million people - including 1 million children - are at severe risk of being inadequately fed, clothed, cleaned or kept warm.There is increasing alarm at the impact this severe hardship is having on children as the cost of living crisis enters a second winter.That is why the Evening Standard has today combined forces with Comic Relief to launch our Winter Survival Appeal Christmas campaign, with Comic Relief pledging £500,000 to get us underway.The money will be given to charities in London and across the UK that help people struggling with food insecurity as well as children's health and well-being.To make a donation, visit comicrelief.com/wintersurvival Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My guest this week is someone who is both right at the edge of the emerging futures and in a position to exert leverage at some of the highest points of the scale at which change happens. Sophia Parker is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social and cultural equity.  It is still committed to the research that sheds new light onto the nature and scale of poverty and injustice in the UK. It is still advocating for change and supporting the people who are making it happen - but newly it is supporting those who are at the leading edge of paradigm shift, exploring all the myriad ways we could break out of late stage capitalism and towards that more flourishing future our hearts know is possible. And there are so many ways - one of the many things I took on board from this conversation was the number of people and organisations around the world who are working in and expanding the radical spaces we've touched on recently with Indy Johar and then Alnoor Ladha and Lynn Murphy.  In her role as the Director of the Emerging Futures Programme, Sophia is working at the heart of the change, connecting ideas, exploring how best to support them in ways that will grow us forward and not just keep propping up the old system and the old narratives.  She's delving deeply into ways to change the narrative, the levels at which that happens, where are the tipping points in our culture and how do we support and entire ecosystem of transformation.  Near the top of the hour, we talked about hope and truly, I came away from this conversation a lot more hopeful than when we started. Bio:Sophia Parker was CEO of Little Village, the London-based charity she founded in 2016 that works to tackle child poverty. Now, she is the Emerging Futures Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, a philanthropic organisation with a long history of progressive work, aiming for social equity. The Emerging Futures programme was set up to imagine and grow radical new approaches to tackling poverty, in collaboration with partners and people with lived experience of poverty.Previously she has held senior leadership positions in think tanks and charities, as well as working in government locally and nationally, and was a Research Associate at Harvard's Kennedy School). Share your ideas for future Gatherings: https://accidentalgods.life/ideas-for-gatherings/ Sophia's Blog Emerging Futures at JRF - two years in, the story so far | JRFJoseph Rowntree Foundation https://www.jrf.org.uk/JRF Emerging Futures https://www.jrf.org.uk/society/emerging-futures/Little Village https://littlevillagehq.org/Geoff Mulgan Another World is Possible https://www.geoffmulgan.com/another-world-is-possibleMeg Wheatley - Two Loop theory  https://transformationallearningopportunities.com/two-loop-theoryEF/JRF Imagination Infrastructure Event https://www.imaginationinfrastructuring.com/imagination-infrastructure-initiatves/iievent-pw8gjThe Onion Collective: https://www.onioncollective.co.uk/The Onion Collective: Liminal economics paper - https://medium.com/onioncollective/liminal-economics-swimming-at-the-edge-of-the-economy-f16fb476daa4Centre for Public Impact https://www.centreforpublicimpact.org/europeCanopy https://www.canopy.si/Center for Economic Democracy https://www.economicdemocracy.us/York: New Constellations https://newconstellations.co/journey/york/Opus in Sheffield https://weareopus.org/CoLab Dudley https://dudleyhighstreet.uk/colab-dudley/SuperFlux https://superflux.in/Cassie Robinson Emerging Futures, Patterning the Emerging Horizon https://videos.theconference.se/cassie-robinson-emerging-futuresLankelly Chase https://lankellychase.org.ukThirtyPercy https://thirtypercy.org/Dimple Abichandani https://www.ncfp.org/people/dimple-abichandi/Nkem Ndefo https://lumostransforms.com/team/nkem-ndefo/

This podcast loves looking at the positive things going on in our region so in this week's episode Rob Parsons hears about a brilliant project being led in the North of England.  Budding writers and journalists from underrepresented backgrounds could be in with a chance of getting their big break as part of a scheme backed by national treasure Michael Sheen and the Daily Mirror. The ‘A Writing Chance' project aims to give wannabe writers from minority backgrounds a leg-up into the industry, and is co-founded by award-winning actor Michael, the York-based Joseph Rowntree Foundation and New Writing North. Claire Malcolm, the chief executive of New Writing North, and Katy Shaw, Professor of 21st Century Writing and Publishing at Northumbria University, tell Rob why the scheme is so important. *** The Northern Agenda is a Laudable production for Reach. It is presented by Rob Parsons, and produced by Daniel J. McLaughlin. You can subscribe to the daily Northern Agenda newsletter here: http://www.thenorthernagenda.co.uk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Britney Spears has been in the news again after spilling personal stories in a memoir. Are women being pressured to overshare in order to sell books? And are men also expected to publicise their personal lives? Nina Stibbe, whose newest memoir is Went to London, Took the Dog, and Caroline Sanderson, Associate Editor of The Bookseller, joined Emma Barnett to discuss. Mary Turner Thomson found writing a memoir cathartic after discovering that her husband, William Allen Jordan, was not a spy as she had been told. He was actually a bigamist and a conman. Her story is now a documentary series, The Other Mrs Jordan: Catching the Ultimate Conman, which is available on ITVX. She and her daughter Eilidh told Emma about the day they discovered William's real identity. A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Heriot Watt university says the number of children in the UK living in destitution has nearly trebled since 2017. Why are families struggling, and what could be done to help? Abby Jitendra, Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Sophia Worringer, Deputy Policy Director at the Centre for Social Justice, joined Emma. We also heard from Kimberley in Fife who contributed to the report. Dame Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has been found to have breached data protection laws after she publicly discussed the closure of Nigel Farage's account with NatWest subsidiary bank Coutts. In the UK, banks closed more than 343,000 accounts in the last financial year. Gina Miller, the woman who spearheaded the anti-Brexit campaign before the 2016 referendum, was 'de-banked' and has called for an investigation into the practice. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Hannah Sander

Cassie RobinsonAssociate Director of Emerging Future at Joseph Rowntree Foundation“There's always something growing and declining at the same time. I am ending and beginning at the same time.”From external events such as the pandemic to the hyper speed development of AI and tech to the increasingly urgent climate crisis discourses, how do we navigate ourselves in the midst of all these life-changing events? Are all changes – particularly the ones that liken to the ending of a cycle – inevitably bad? How can we adapt accordingly and create pathways to what's to come?Using an array of frameworks, Associate Director of Emerging Futures and founder of Stewarding Loss, Cassie Robinson is of the belief that endings can be done better.“The systemic transition is considering it as making good compost – composting improves soil, it provides nutrients, it stimulates the ecosystem, it builds up.”Robinson's frameworks aimed at the UK public sector and organisations like the NHS. But during the Q&A aspects relating to private companies also surface..The idea of hospicing endings might seem alien or unnecessary in profit-driven systems. But these rituals are natural part of our culture - from the personal to the organizational to the societal – and here Robinson expands on the work of e.g. Vanessa Reid.

Today's economic news is being cheered on by the government - but the reality is far, far different.Joining us is Alfie Stirling is the chief economist and associate director at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation, to explain what's really going on.Please like, subscribe - and help us take on the right-wing media here: https://www.patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Food inflation is a huge concern across the world. Over the course of 2022, food prices were on average 14.3% higher than the year before. In the UK, things are looking a little worse than average. The Office for National Statistics found that in the 12 months leading up to March 2023, food prices rose 19.2%. The thing is, the World Bank is reporting that, globally, wholesale prices are starting to fall. In this episode of the Food Matters Live podcast, we explore the implications of high food prices on consumers, businesses, and the broader food industry. We discuss when we might see a drop in the cost of food, and ask: "Why are food prices still so high?" Guests: Liliana Danila, Lead Economist, the Food and Drink Federation Rachelle Earwaker, Senior Economist, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Chancellor Jeremy's Hunt's claiming earners on average salaries will be over £1,000 better off every year in their retirement - but how?In his first Mansion House speech, Hunt set out his plans to reform the pension industry as part of a series of measure he reckons could bring in up to £75 billion.It came as unemployment and wage growth both unexpectedly rose on Tuesday, while two-year mortgage rates at 15-year high of 6.66 per cent.And Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey was bullish in his speech at the annual City gala dinner, reporting inflation “is set to fall markedly over the remainder of the year”.But is it - or is it all pre-election smoke and mirrors?The Leader podcast's joined by Alfie Stirling, chief economist and associate director at The Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

3.8 million people in the UK experienced destitution in 2022, including around one million children. That's according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation report into destitution. This is almost two-and-a-half times the number of people in 2017, and nearly triple the number of children. There is an urgent need for action to tackle destitution in the UK.When faced with the reality of not being able to provide basic essentials for your child, where do you turn for help? In our heartfelt conversation with Emma Cantrell, founder and CEO of Children's Charity First Days, we uncover the shocking statistics surrounding child poverty and food insecurity in the UK. Emma shares the touching story of how First Days began and its growth over the past decade, now supporting over 10,000 children living in poverty by distributing more than 250 tonnes of donated goods.We discuss the vital role of providing children with brand new items on their first day of school, granting them a sense of agency and belonging. Emma sheds light on the challenges of supplying school uniforms amidst rising costs and the disturbing fact that 20% of adults in the UK have experienced food insecurity. We delve into the impact of this crisis on families and their children's well-being and future prospects.In this episode, Emma also shares her insights on how First Days Charity not only meets the basic needs of impoverished families but builds relationships with them to ensure they receive the help they deserve. We explore the inspiring ways the local community comes together to support those in need, as well as the importance of breaking down the stigma around asking for help. Join us for this inspiring and eye-opening conversation with Emma Cantrell, a true champion for children in need.#ChildPovertyUK #FoodInsecurity #ChildrensCharity #FirstDays #HelpingChildren #CommunitySupport #ChildWellbeing #EducationMatters #BasicNeeds #SupportingFamilies #BuildingConnections #InspiringChange #ChildhoodPoverty #GivingBack #CommunitySolidarity #BreakTheStigma #EmpowerChildren #MakingADifference #ChildAdvocacy #UKCharities #ChildhoodInequality #FutureProspects #SocialImpact #PovertyAwarenessSupport the showhttps://www.angelawalkerreports.com/

As Labour starts to set out its policy agenda for the next election, Anoosh Chakelian speaks to one of the people who helped shape it.Claire Ainsley worked in Starmer's policy team from 2020 to 2022 – before that she was at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and is now a director at the Progressive Policy Institute. They discuss how radical or conservative Starmer needs to be to win the election, what lessons can be learned from other centre-left successes around the world, and how to build a broad coalition with working-class and middle-class voters.Submit a question to You Ask UsSubscribe to Morning Call Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joining Chief Executive Andrew Carter is James Plunkett, Group Chief Practices Officer at Nesta and author of End State: 9 Ways Society is Broken and How We Fix It and the Future State blog on Substack. They discuss James' recent article, Unequality: When inequality changes, our strategies must too, which is the third in a three-part series of essays for a project with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Social justice in a digital age. This episode is part of Centre for Cities' City Talks series. Please rate, review and share the episode if you enjoyed it.

Following a Cambridge University Land Society and Joseph Rowntree Foundation event on housing policy, Emma Fletcher and I were asked to write a paper detailing a realistic vision for the UK housing market, and what policies could be used to achieve that vision. Emma is a Development Director at Hyde, a Housing Association responsible for 50,000 homes, and Chair of Swaffham Prior Community Land Trust, which created the first village-wide renewable energy system in the UK. The paper is being published this week, and includes an overall vision, as well as tenure-specific objectives and policy recommendations.  Points include: The impact of short termism and vested interests on housing market inequalities  The problem with focusing on new homes, since 80% of the homes we use in 2050 are already built Policy ideas such as how to incentivise downsizing, for reasons including the fact that 3.6 million homes across the country owned by over 65s have at least two spare rooms. Guest website: https://www.hyde-housing.co.uk/ Guest LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emmafletchercambridge/ Host website: annaclareharper.com  Host LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/

In this episode of the podcast Will is joined by Tom Clark, Fellow at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Contributing Editor at Prospect and a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, to discuss a new book he has edited -Broke: Fixing Britain's Poverty Crisis. They discuss the strain on the welfare system and how it is often difficult for the people who need it most; how inequality and poverty can be linked to a lack of fixed housing and how the asylum and immigration system have so often failed the most vulnerable. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You can't paint your walls, you can't have a pet, you can't guarantee you'll have somewhere to live in six months time. Millions of us are paying sky-high rents but struggling to make a home in a housing system where safety and security takes second place to landlords' profits. Some private tenants face mould and broken boilers but daren't complain. According to Shelter, complaining to your landlord about conditions in your home more than doubles your chance of being evicted. How did private renting become so prevalent? Why are the rights of tenants so weak? And what does this mean for our ability to make a home? Ayeisha is joined by Vicky Spratt, housing correspondent at the i and author of Tenants, and Kieran Yates, journalist and author of the upcoming All the houses I've ever lived in. Further reading: - Grab a copy of Vicky's book Tenants https://profilebooks.com/work/tenants/ - Kieran's book All the houses I've ever lived in is out on the 27 April https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/All-The-Houses-Ive-Ever-Lived-In/Kieran-Yates/9781398509832 - Kojo Koram's book Uncommon wealth is available here https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/kojo-koram/uncommon-wealth/9781529338652/ - Find out more about about the Joseph Rowntree Foundation's work on home-owners and poverty https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/home-owners-and-poverty ----- Music by Podington Bear, used under Creative Commons licence. Produced by Becky Malone, Margaret Welsh and Katrina Gaffney. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The Weekly Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

Tom Clark is a journalist, a contributing editor at Prospect and a fellow at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and was previously a leading writer at The Guardian for ten years. His new book, Broke, is a collection of essays from today's masters of social reportage on Britain's accelerating poverty crisis. Broke ventures deep into the communities so often ignored by politicians and introduces us to those at the hardest end of the breadline, combining human stories and analysis for a practical and hopeful solution. On this episode, we discuss some of the sobering stories at the heart of Broke, how poverty has changed in recent years and which three people he would give the book to in order to effect change. Get your copy of Broke here: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/broke Music Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3788-funkorama Licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Proverbs 28:27 The writer of Proverbs often refers to poverty. In his society there were no welfare state provisions and so poverty was an ever-present and terrible threat. If one's family were unable to give support, then a person could become totally destitute. Begging would be the only option. It's not surprising that many proverbs speak of the vital importance of giving to the poor and, in chapter 19, the writer speaks of the spiritual significance of such giving. He writes: “If you help the poor, you are lending to the Lord – and he will repay you” (Proverbs 19:17). God loves to see people who are generous to the poor. It is a theme that runs through the whole Bible, from the law of Moses to the sharp and down to earth wisdom of the letter of James. God expects us to care for the poor, and will reward those who do so. The part of this verse that strikes me with particular force is the reference to those who close their eyes to poverty. The writer bluntly states that they will be cursed. God is clearly calling us to open our eyes to the reality of poverty, uncomfortable as that may well be. Poverty is never pleasant, and it is very easy for those who are financially secure to get on with their comfortable lives in blissful ignorance of the lives of those who are struggling through financial need. The statistics are terrifying. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has been working for over a century to study the causes of poverty in the UK. It believes that more than 20 per cent of the population live in poverty and this affects every part of their lives – their children's education, their health, their job prospects, their life span – everything. It is particularly painful to note that more than half of those who live in poverty are disabled or live in a family with someone who is disabled. I could go on, but these few details are enough to prove the point that this is a crisis which demands a response from all of us. QUESTION How aware are you of poverty in your area, and what can you do to help? PRAYER Loving God, thank you for all the resources you have given to me. Help me to be increasingly generous in sharing them with others, and especially the poor. Amen

Tens of thousands of working age people with terminal illnesses are dying in poverty in the UK, as the safety net fails to catch them in their final year of life. Could a relatively cheap and simple policy change solve this cruel problem? Helen Barnard, associate director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Sam Royston, Director of Policy and Research at Marie Curie join assistant editor Sarah Collins on the podcast. If you enjoyed this podcast, why not have a listen to our Prospect Lives podcast? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anna Charles speaks to Torsten Bell, Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation, Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Marie Gabriel CBE, Chair of North East London Integrated Care System and Cormac Russell, Founding Director of Nurture Development, to find out how the cost-of-living crisis is impacting the nation's health and wellbeing, and what the health and care system can do in response.  If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in this podcast, we've put together a list of organisations that can offer advice, guidance and support.  Related resources Poverty and the health and care system: The role of data and partnership in bringing change (long read) Time for action on poverty: practical steps for the NHS and its partners (free online event) The NHS's role in tackling poverty (commissioned report)

The cost of living is dominating conversations around the country, so, in this week's podcast, Jen chats to Helen Barnard, associate director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and director of research and policy at Pro Bono Economics, about assumptions made about poverty. Mick's chatting with Claudia Brewster, course leader of Graphic Design, Creative Advertising and Visual Communication at the University of Gloucestershire, and one of her second-year students, Siobhan Smith, about the posters they've been designing for the March for Freedom for Afghan Women and Girls taking place in London on Sunday 27 November. In Jenny Off The Blocks, Jen's boycotting Qatar and in BT, Hannah's rounding up the results of the midterms in the US. And last, but oh so very much not least, we'll find out what's easier to look after, heroin or babies, as we watch 1987's Three Men And A Baby in Rated or Dated.* You can grab your March for Freedom posters here: https://marchforafghanwomenandgirls.com/* Helen Barnard's book can be bought here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788213971/ref=cm_sw_r_apa_i_F9YMB439145K46BBZEMB_3Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/standardissuespodcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's 80 years since William Beveridge identified the five giant problems holding back post-war Britain, laying the groundwork for the welfare state. Today, that welfare state appears in crisis—but has it failed, or has it simply not evolved after completing its original tasks? Paul Maynard, Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, and Helen Barnard, associate director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, join Ellen Halliday to discuss what the welfare state must fix next. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most people in poverty in the UK are in working families. Four million workers live in poverty: their resources are well below their minimum needs.That means 'not being able to heat your home, pay your rent, or buy the essentials for your children. It means waking up every day facing insecurity, uncertainty, and impossible decisions about money.'And seven in ten children growing up in poverty live in a working family. How have we come to this? And what can we do about it?Helen Barnard has spent her career researching poverty. She is the author of new book Want, part of Five Giants, a series published eighty years on from the original Beveridge Report in 1942 which identified five barriers to social progress and led to the creation of the modern welfare state (and NHS).Today mass unemployment is no longer the issue it was:  big factors behind poverty and insecurity are low pay, lack of progression, insecurity and underemployment as Helen explains.She tells me about a business which trusts, empowers, and supports its workforce – as a result it has happy and engaged employees, and they and the business prosper. She contrasts this with an exploitative approach and gives a three-pronged approach to how we can support more "good" businesses and address the bad ones.We also discuss supporting people in under-invested communities to support and grow businesses and social enterprises; unleashing the power of civil society and how to create a more level playing field for corporate taxation.The book involves powerful and heart-rending stories about modern poverty and new,, fit-for-purpose ideas and solutions.Listen to this interview with Helen Barnard for practical, fit-for-purpose ideas about the power of good business to address modern poverty and inequality today.Timings and links:0 - 3:00 introduction3:00 interview with Helen Barnard of Pro Bono Economics and The Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Find Helen on twitter and get a copy of her book here, or there are lots of non-Amazon options to buy it here.32:20 wrapping up and upcoming events including Off the Shelf and Celluloid Screams.Thanks Helen for such comprehensive and thoughtful interview and thanks as ever to Sheffield Live for broadcasting the show on FM radio today, 21 October 2022  https://web.sheffieldlive.org . Thank-you for listening – please go and buy Helen's book if you can!

This a very timely conversation between host Andrew Laird and poverty and cost-of-living expert Helen Barnard. Helen is a Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Research and Policy Director at Pro Bono Economics. Chances are you have heard Helen talking about the current crisis on the news. For context, as the podcast was recorded, the Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng had just stepped aside and the “mini budget” was being unwound... Helen has just released a new book called “Want” which is part of a series styled as a new Beverage report. Andrew and Helen discuss the drivers of poverty and how Government should respond in the aftermath of the pandemic, which has surfaced and exacerbated a huge level of inequality in our society. They also discuss what the priorities should be at the various levels of government. Helen and Andrew are both Commissioners on Philippa Stroud's Poverty Strategy Commission which aims to develop concrete policy proposals in this area. They also talk about good policy making and how in order to make sustainable progress, people of differing views need to come together and try and reach consensus. It seems to there is a dangerous norm emerging that unless you agree with someone else on everything you can agree on nothing – this is the road to nowhere. Coalition building around specific topics is key to lasting progress.

Last week inflation hit double figures for the first time in 40 years, while real wages saw their largest drop since records began. So, what does this bleak picture mean for people on the lowest-incomes? Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Stu Hennigan, author of the book Ghost Signs, Poverty and the Pandemic join Ellen Halliday to talk about the millions of Britons facing deep poverty. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Families on a low income face spending more than a quarter of the money they have left after paying their mortgage or rent on energy bills from April next year. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says it's even tougher for single people on a low income with no children, where it rises to more than two thirds. The calculations are based on latest predictions from the energy analyst Cornwall Insight, which says the typical annual bill could reach more than £3,300 in the new year. The data also shows that the government's £37 billion support package has reduced costs this year. We'll get reaction from the government, the energy regulator Ofgem, and Energy UK who represent the industry. It's not long until school's out for summer, in England and Wales at least - Scotland and Northern Ireland are already deep into that school summer break. We'll take a look at what financial support is on offer for families to help with costs. How rising inflation is pushing more people into higher tax bands and what you can do about it. And the listener who paid off her mortgage, only to discover the bank had used her money to pay off someone else's. Presenter: Felicity Hannah Reporter: Katie Barnfield Researcher: Sandra Hardial Editor: Jess Quayle (First broadcast 12pm Saturday 16th July, 2022)

Ben Marshall (Ipsos Research Director) chats all things housing with industry experts Gavin Smart (Chief Executive, Chartered Institute of Housing), Gráinne Gilmore (Head of Research, Zoopla), Darren Baxter (Senior Policy Advisor, Joseph Rowntree Foundation) and Jules Birch (Freelance writer/journalist for Inside Housing). In this episode, the guests aim to answer “Housing – what needs to happen next?” The discussion covers: ‘Prices and people' – the market and what's happening, housing within the cost-of-living crisis ‘Priorities and policy' – what should the focus be in the short- and long-term? what has worked? what will work? ‘Politics and progress' – why is housing a ‘third order' focus for politicians? Where and why do (or don't!) we see progress?

Introductory remarks by Bronwen Maddox, Director of the Institute for Government Setting out the recommendations of a recent IfG report, Tom Sasse, IfG Associate Director, made the case for reforms such as appointing a dedicated head of policy making in each department, encouraging officials to specialise more in policy areas, and greater co-ordination of cross-departmental policy making. Discussion with speakers: Andrew Carter, Chief Executive of the Centre for Cities Anna Isaac, Economics Editor at The Independent Paul Kissack, Group Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust Rachel Wolf, Founding Partner at Public First. Chaired by: Dr Hannah White, Deputy Director of the Institute for Government Closing remarks from Lord Sainsbury of Turville. #IfGgovtreform

Keith Reed, CEO of the Parent-Infant Foundation, speaks to Sophie Livingstone MBE, CEO of Little Village, about their work with refugees, other families across London and their 'It Takes a Village' report with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Teia and Lauren are not holding back (at this point, would you expect anything less?). We deep dive into reparations. What do we mean by reparations? What do they look like in the non-profit space and beyond? How do we know when we are being reparative or not? Not only that! We have a story tucked inside! Fiona, who we had the privilege of meeting at Camp Quirky, shares how her organisation is taking a reparative approach. Trigger warning: This episode discusses racism and harrowing events such as the Tulsa race massacre. If you need support, these organisations can help:www.blackmindsmatteruk.comwww.rethink.orgwww.mind.org.ukResources: A Reparations Toolkit from The Movement for Black Lives - https://m4bl.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Reparations-Now-Toolkit-FINAL.pdf The Cargo Movement - http://www.cargomovement.org/ A report on "The true costs of the Tulsa race massacre, 100 years later" by Andre M. Perry, Anthony Barr, and Carl Romer from the Brookings Institution - https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-true-costs-of-the-tulsa-race-massacre-100-years-later/ The Joseph Rowntree Foundation's approach - https://eachother.org.uk/todays-statement-from-the-joseph-rowntree-foundation-paves-a-path-forward/ https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/evaluation-implementation-and-effectiveness-initiative-restorative-cautioning The Role of Aid in Reparations for the Harm of Colonialism by Equals - https://equalshope.org/index.php/2022/01/13/the-role-of-aid-in-reparations-for-the-harm-of-colonialism/ Black Women Let Loose Theatre company - https://bwlltheatre.co.uk/ Other sources: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/80-per-cent-believe-philanthropy-should-do-more-when-it-comes-to-reparations/https://johnsoncenter.org/blog/philanthropy-and-reparations-righting-the-past/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-times-united-states-officially-apologized-180959254/https://www.history.com/news/tulsa-massacre-black-wall-street-before-and-after-photos Get Premium Content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this special episode, Laura speaks with two fantastic women working to alleviate child poverty in the UK - Kelly Fort, Head of Operations at MammaKind (baby bank) and Sophia Parker, Director of Emerging Futures at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (social change organisation.)  We talk about what baby banks are, the families using them and why, unfortunately, as Sophia tells us, "Baby banks are anticipating their busiest year yet." With huge cost of living rises on food and energy bills, insecure and low paid work, more and more families are in poverty and this has a massive impact on children and mums.  I hope the conversation helps you better understand the situation many households are currently in. Kelly and Sophia also share some ideas on what we can do to help.  If you think you might benefit from using a baby bank service, or would like to volunteer your time or gift a donation you can find one of the 150+ baby banks in the UK via this map:  https://littlevillagehq.org/uk-baby-banks/ To read the Joseph Rowntree Foundation reports visit:  https://www.jrf.org.uk/reports   To connect with the baby banks discussed:  MammaKind Instagram @mamma_kind (also on Facebook or email info@mammakind.or.uk)  Little Village Instagram @littlevillagehq Sophia Parker Twitter @mssophiaparker   This special episode is hosted and produced by Laura Broderick with music by Ros Fraser.  Thank you for listening and do share, rate, review and keep in touch...Mother of All Solutions @SolutionsMother    

In this new episode of The Local Authority, editor of Local Government Chronicle, Nick Golding speaks to the panellists about 'The Squeeze'.  What can councils do to support their local population during the cost-of-living crisis, including the rise in energy bills to unprecedented levels – even before the invasion of Ukraine.  How councils can work to reduce poverty, both among those in and not in work.  What strategies can they adopt and which sections of the population should they focus on? Alongside Nick, this episode features Mike Brewer, Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Economics, Resolution Foundation; Helen Barnard, Associate Director, Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Research and Policy Director, Pro Bono Economics and Paul Frainer, Programme Lead - Place, TPXimpact and Director at Institute of Economic Development.

Tony Benn served as member of parliament for both Bristol South East and Chesterfield, in a parliamentary career that lasted from 1950 until 2001. Benn's transformation from technocrat in the 1960s to left-wing iconoclast in the 1980s is one of the most important in the history of the Labour Party. Benn proved a major source of inspiration for Jeremy Corbyn, but has become a hate figure for those in Labour closer to the centre ground of British politics, who regarded him as an electoral landmine. My guest for this conversation is Tom Clark, contributing editor at Prospect Magazine and senior fellow at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 

As Russian military forces continue bombarding Ukrainian cities and civilians, are your investments supporting the Kremlin's regime? International companies have been pulling out of Russian investment, and pension funds and investment firms say they are reducing holdings in Russian companies. But what can ordinary investors do? Are you aware that a tracker fund or an investment bond might help support Russian firms? We hear from Lucy Coutts, Investment Director at JM Finn Wealth Management. For 1.7 million people across the UK, funeral plans offer peace of mind that when the inevitable happens their loved ones will be spared having to pay for a funeral. But there is big change on the way for the industry and those customers. By this summer all firms in the sector must be authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority, to raise standards in the industry. But an indirect consequence of this is that tens of thousands of customers could lose out. Money Box reporter Dan Whitworth has been investigating. We also hear from Matt Brewis, Director of Insurance at the Financial Conduct Authority, and from James Daley of Fairer Finance. Many listeners have been getting in touch to ask about rises in the standing charge in their energy bills. We hear from Helen Barnard, Associate Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. And Money Box has won back more than £8,000 for a listener who received a huge - and incorrect - fuel bill from Ecotricity. The company founder, Dale Vince, explains what went wrong and what he thinks is going wrong with the wider energy sector - and how to fix it. Presenter: Paul Lewis Producer: Paul Waters Reporter: Dan Whitworth Researcher: Ben Henderson Editor: Emma Rippon (Photo credit: Anghi / Getty Images)

Ash Barty, the Australian three time grand slam champion is retiring from tennis. Her achievements are matched only by her fellow player, Serena Williams. Andy Murray tweeted "Happy for Ash, gutted for tennis. What a player". We hear from Gigi Salmon, tennis commentator for the BBC who has interviewed Ash Barty many times over the years, and has been at all her three major wins. The concept of shame first named in the bible when Eve plucked the apple from the tree of life is invariably seen as negative force in society. But in a new book by the author Cathy O Neil she suggests that shame can be a powerful and sometimes a useful tool for good: when we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities or predatory corporations. She joins Emma Barnett to discuss hew new book ‘The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation'. The government is under increasing pressure to tackle Britain's cost of living crisis in its spring statement today. With rising food and fuel costs, inflation at the highest rate for 30 years and a record increase in household energy bills, households are facing mounting pressures to pay the bills. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation estimates that 1.8 million children today are growing up in very deep poverty. What's it like to grow up in poverty? And how does it shape you? Skint is a new BBC 4 series of drama monologues all about the lived experience. Kerry Hudson grew up in extreme poverty and has written Hannah's story. Woman's Hour listener Fran heard one of the conversations in our series Threads which explores the emotional power of old clothes. She remembered a tiny dress and cardigan which she last wore more than 60 years ago. I spoke to her and asked her to describe them. ‘Am I That Guy?' is a new Radio 4 documentary about sexual entitlement that puts men at the forefront of the conversation. Instead of telling women how to protect themselves from danger it focuses on how men can improve their behaviour. Graham Goulden is a consultant on Police Scotland's viral ‘Don't Be That Guy' campaign and a contributor to the doc. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Gigi Salmon Interviewed Guest: Kerry Hudson Interviewed Guest: Felicity Hannah Interviewed Guest: Cathy O'Neill Interviewed Guest: Graham Goulden

In this episode we talk to Cassie Robinson, a leading philanthropy thinker, connector and innovator, and formerly Deputy Director of Funding Strategy at the National Lottery Community Fund. We discuss the current state of philanthropy, how it needs to change, and what those working in the field can do to transform it. Including:-What are the best and worst things about working in institutional philanthropy and being a "philanthropoid"?-How much power do philanthropoids have to shape the institutions they work in?- If you were going to design a foundation from scratch, what would it look like?-For those looking to make an impact on the big challenges facing us today, is philanthropy the best option or are there more effective alternative routes?-Are the dividing lines between "nonprofit" and other approaches increasingly artificial?-Should we be thinking less about institutions and more about networks when it comes to the future for philanthropy?-What can philanthropy learn from fungi...?-Is there sometimes a risk that in giving away power, it gets lost rather than transferred? Do we therefore also need to think about how funders use their power more effectively?-What role can art and fiction play in helping to develop "social imagination"? What can philanthropy do to harness this and encourage better foresight and thinking about the future?-Does institutional philanthropy take enough risks?Related Links:Cassie's personal websiteCassie on MediumMore on Joseph Rowntree Foundation's work on social imaginationRhod's Medium blog "Language Barriers: why the ways in which we talk about philanthropy & civil society are holding us back"Rhod's previous conversation with Cassie for the CAF Giving Thought podcast

2022 has been dubbed the ‘year of the squeeze' by the Resolution Foundation. In April, soaring energy bills will collide with tax increases for working people. Last month grocery prices rose at their fastest rate in eight years, and inflation is at its highest level in almost three decades. When the media talk about the ‘cost of living crisis', what do they mean? How did we end up in a country with more food banks than branches of McDonalds? And what can the government do to make sure everyone can afford life's essentials? Ayeisha is joined by NEF's Alfie Stirling and Sabine Goodwin, coordinator of the Independent Food Aid Network (IFAN). Some of the clips used in this episode are from IFAN members, supporting people in food banks across the country. Thanks to Mairi McCallum, Joyce Leggate, Charlotte White, Betty Grant and Rajesh Makwana for sharing your experiences with us. - If you'd like to get involved in NEF's campaign for income support, head over to the Living Income website: https://livingincome.org.uk/ - Read Pushed to the Edge: poverty, food banks and mental health, a new report by Tom Pollard and co-produced with the IFAN and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: https://www.foodaidnetwork.org.uk/blog/mental-health ----- Researched by Margaret Welsh. Produced by Becky Malone. Music by Chris Zabriskie and Poddington Bear under Creative Commons license. Enjoying the show? Tweet us your comments and questions @NEF! The New Economics Podcast is brought to you by the New Economics Foundation. Find out more at www.neweconomics.org

Our Special Guest this week is Helen Barnard, Associate Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Help Ukraine Emergency Appeal Decisions of the Week: R (oao TV Harrison CIC) v Leeds City Council et anor [2022] EWHC 130 (Admin) a decision of the High Court dated 25th January 2022 allowing a second challenge to the refusal of the City Council to include land in the list of assets of community value under s 87 of the Localism Act 2011. R (oao S Finch) v Surrey County Council et al [2022] EWCA Civ 187 a decision of the Court of Appeal dated 17th February 2022 dismissing an appeal against the decision of Holgate J who had dismissed a challenge to the decision of the mineral planning authority not to require EIA for crude oil extraction to include an assessment of the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions from the use of refined products of that oil. Decision of an inspector dated 18th February 2022 allowing an appeal by JBM Solar Projects 6 Ltd against the refusal of Newark & Sherwood District Council to grant permission for a solar farm & battery stations, raising landscape & heritage issues. Decision of an inspector dated 23rdth February 2022 allowing an appeal against the refusal of Thanet District Council to grant Gladman's outline permission for up to 450 homes & associated infrastructure on a Strategic Housing Allocation in the local plan at Margate where there was no 5Yr HLS available and a failure to meet HDT. Heritage & impact on Thames Coast & Sandwich Bay SPA & Ramsar site considered.

The Raise the Roof project in Perth in Scotland, is gathering the lesser-known histories of a number of influential and fearless women to feature in the new Perth City Hall Museum when it opens in early 2024. A list of over 50 women who have lived in Perth over the centuries – from a witch to a pioneering photographer and the first female MP has been drawn up. But it is down to a number of different community groups to decide which women will be celebrated. They will work with an artist to help tell their stories and a wire statue of each of those women will be displayed around the city. Chloe Tilley is joined by Anna Day the Cultural Public Programme Manager at Perth & Kinross Council and the artist Vanessa Lawrence. The Children's Commissioner for England, Dame Rachel de Souza, has warned that thousands of children have "fallen off the radar" of schools. She is launching an inquiry to find young people who are not attending school in the wake of lockdown. In 1969 Muriel McKay was kidnapped after being mistaken for Rupert Murdoch's wife. The story dominated front pages for weeks, and hundreds of police worked the case. After 40 days Arthur and Nizamodeen Hosein were arrested, and later jailed, but Muriel was never found. The brothers never confessed to their crimes, or revealed the whereabouts of Mrs McKay's body. Until now. Dianne McKay is Muriel's daughter and joins Chloe. With inflation at a 10 year high, energy bills on the increase, and average pay rises failing to keep up with the rise of the cost of living, and not forgetting an increase in national insurance coming this way, millions of people will find themselves worse off in 2022. The number of households spending at least 10 per cent of their family budgets on energy bills – is set to treble overnight to 6.3 million households when the new energy price cap comes into effect on April, that's according to research by the Resolution Foundation, who've dubbed 2022 the year of the squeeze. And new analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that low income families could spend on average 18 percent of their income after housing costs on energy bills. How would you respond to starting a relationship and being told by your new partner he was looking for a committed partnership—just one that did not include exclusivity? Author and journalist, Rachel Krantz had to address just this and embrace it with her ex partner Adam. She was nervous, yet intrigued and so Rachel decided to give it a go. Seeing whether she could cope with, and enjoy, both of them dating other people. In her debut memoir, ‘Open, An Uncensored Memoir of Love, Liberation & Non-Monogamy' Rachel candidly shares with the reader her experiences of exploring Brooklyn sex parties and being part of the swinger community. Presenter: Chloe Tilley Producer: Kirsty Starkey Interviewed Guest: Dame Rachel de Souza Interviewed Guest: Dianne McKay Interviewed Guest: Helen Barnard Interviewed Guest: Victoria Benson Interviewed Guest: Anna Day Interviewed Guest: Vanessa Lawrence Interviewed Guest: Rachel Krantz

This week we talk to Tom Harbour, CEO of Learning with Parents about how schools can make engaging parents in their children's learning inclusive. Tom tells us why he was motivated to set up an organisation focussed on parental engagement. Tom shares what he has learned about how to break down all possible barriers and help every parent access ways to support their children at school.    We talk about: Why Tom set up Learning with Parents and how it has developed The various different strands to Learning with Parents' work  What Tom and his team have learnt about effective pupil engagement, with a particular focus on how to make activities fully inclusive  Tom's reflections on how schools and parents can best work together to support learning  What Tom thinks the impact of partial school closures has been on parental engagement    You can learn more about Learning with Parents here.   *You can read the original report from The Joseph Rowntree Foundation that Tom quotes here.

In a Budget Day special, Andrew Pierce is joined by Conservative MP and member of the Commons Treasury Committee, Anthony Browne, to discuss Chancellor Rishi Sunak's plans for the year ahead, and if he's able to balance the books. Economist Ben Zaranko, from the The Institute for Fiscal Studies, talks to Andrew about the Chancellor's remarkable break from Conservative economic tradition and Andrew is joined by Katie Schmuecker from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation who says it is not yet clear if the Mr Sunak has done enough to protect the income of the lowest paid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Pierce talks to Christopher Snowdon of the Institute for Economic Affairs on Boris's 'anti-business' speech and whether business really is to blame for shortages, and speaks to Helen Barnard of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on Universal Credit cuts which she says will put 500,000 people into poverty. Plus, the rise and rise of £1 million streets in Britain See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

 Maggie joined the Consortium of Voluntary Adoption Agencies in November 2018. Previously, she was Chief Executive of Foundation, an organisation dedicated to ending social exclusion which works with over 4000 of the most disadvantaged adults, young people and families across the North of England, providing resources and opportunities for everyone to achieve and belong no matter their personal circumstances.Before Foundation, Maggie was Chief Executive of Children England, the umbrella body for children's charities. She has over 25 years' experience within the statutory and voluntary sectors, including as Assistant Programme Director for England at Save the Children, where she led work on children's rights and participation; establishing the Leeds Health For All (Healthy City) Partnership to tackle poverty, environmental and health inequalities; and working for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation where she led research and practice development work on governance, children and young people's services and the future of the voluntary sector.Maggie is Vice Chair of the National Lottery Community Fund's England Committee and is Chair of the Youth Association; Growing Yorkshire's Future.https://www.linkedin.com/in/maggie-jones-341ab616/CVAA is first and foremost a membership organisation. Their membership is made up of 27 voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs) across the four nations of the UK, along with 2 associate members (adoption support agencies) and a number of subscribers.They represent our members and advocate for them in national forums. They bring member agencies together to collaborate, and we support them to work in partnership with local authorities (LAs) and regional adoption agencies (RAAs). They draw on our members' vast experience of adoption to facilitate the sharing of best practice across the adoption system. They create space for professionals in the voluntary adoption sector to network and learn from one another.Here are the links that Maggie refers to in the interview:www.youcanadopt.co.uk here you can find contact details for all adoption agencies in England, and they can help with access to the Adoption Support Fundwww.cvaa.org.uk for details of Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish voluntary adoption agencies, as well as English oneshttps://www.gov.uk/guidance/adoption-support-fund-asf for details about the fund, eligibility and evaluation reportshttps://childrenssocialcare.independent-review.uk/ site for the Care review taking place in England. There will be opportunities to comment on papers and feed into discussions as the review progressesASGLB: https://coram-i.org.uk/asglb/ this is the site for the Adoption and Special Guardian leadership Board, which brings together all the national organistions with an interest in adoption. They have  reference groups of adopters and special guardians.https://appgap.info/strengthening-families-inquiry. This is the link for the current enquiry into aspects of adoption being undertaken by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Adoption and Permanence.https://twitter.com/CVAA_UK

When Olympic rower Alex Partridge left the sport he had spent nearly a decade and a half devoted to, he soon became unstuck. A breakdown beckoned, and he realised he needed to change something to get his life back on track. That change turned out to be people. Partridge realised he missed being part of a team, missed helping others, and missed the thrill of achieving something as a unit. A couple of roles in consulting and fund management later, and he has now found a niche in a technology company backed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Big Society Capital: Wagestream. Wagestream's mission is simple: give staff power over their pay by giving them access to what they earn, as they earn it. No more loan sharks. No more credit card debt. No more living paypacket to paypacket. In this first episode of Nice City, a new Citywire New Model Adviser podcast series hosted by Ollie Smith and Amelia Garland, they ask Partridge about his mental health journey, his new team, and why it is that people struggle with money.

In this Podcast we talk to Kathleen Kelley about her work in LocalMotion “to support local people to address social, environmental and economic priorities selected and driven locally and derive as much learning as possible from that process”. The circumstances facing communities and charities across the country are increasingly difficult. The long-term and continuing squeeze on funding to local government and for local services against a backdrop of long-established regional differences, has left charities – themselves resource constrained – increasingly having to pick up the pieces. Kathleen Kelley is now working with a number of independent funders who have been investing and supporting charities to survive and adapt for a number of years but they know that there is more they should do to support and boost the potential of people and communities, and crucially to do so through a place-based approach. Kathleen through her work is keen to understand how to be more effective collectively in supporting issues facing communities across the UK and how this might change practice Kathleen has led the development of the National Lottery Community Fund’s partnership funding approach, establishing strategic partnerships across the charitable, public, private and funder sectors. More recently she was Assistant Director of Communities and Social Policy at Greater London Authority implementing the Mayor’s strategies on Social Integration and Equalities, Diversity and Inclusion. Previously she worked at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation for 10 years --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/globalnet21/message

Better use of data is key to more effective government. Across government, teams are doing fascinating work with data. But those projects don’t get the attention they deserve. At this month's event, the 19th in our series, the speakers presented their data projects in an exciting, quickfire format. Each set of speakers had eight minutes, followed by eight minutes of questions from the audience. This month's speakers were: Mark Green, Senior Lecturer in Health Geography at the University of Liverpool, on Local Data Spaces: helping local authorities tackle the Covid-19 pandemic Nick Bailey, Director of the Urban Big Data Centre, on the Urban Big Data Centre’s research Michaela Benzeval, Director of Understanding Society at the University of Essex, and Gemma Schwendel, Senior Analyst at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, on producing and using real time data about the impact of the pandemic on household income, and on the lives of low-income families Catherine Bromley, Deputy Director of Data Strategy and Infrastructure at the ESRC, on UK social science data infrastructure – what’s worked during the pandemic, what’s been a challenge, and lessons for the future. The event was chaired by Gavin Freeguard, associate at the Institute for Government. We took questions virtually during the event.

Dr Calum Carson (Leeds University Business School) and Daniel Howard (Living Wage Foundation) talk about the distinction between the National Living Wage and the Real Living Wage, why employers decide to become Living Wage employers, and what else affects in-work poverty.  Find out more about the Living Wage Foundation by visiting the website http://www.livingwage.org.uk/ (www.livingwage.org.uk)  This podcast episode was recorded remotely in March 2021. If you would like to get in touch regarding this podcast, please contact research.lubs@leeds.ac.uk. A transcript of this episode is available. About the speakers: Dr https://business.leeds.ac.uk/faculty/staff/1235/calum-carson (Calum Carson) is an academic researcher at Leeds University Business School, having recently completed a PhD on the Real Living Wage. He is also a Labour Market and Policy Research Officer at the Employment Related Services Association (ESRA).  https://www.livingwage.org.uk/staff#:~:text=Daniel%20joined%20the%20Living%20Wage,Work%20and%20Pensions%20in%20Leeds (Daniel Howard) is a Programme Manager for the Living Wage Foundation's “https://www.livingwage.org.uk/living-hours (Living Hours)” campaign, which seeks to guarantee workers an adequate number of regular hours alongside receiving Living Wage rates of pay. He has previous research and policy experience at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in York and at the Department for Work and Pensions in Leeds. 

Check out this thought provoking interview with Helen Barnard, Director at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Helen is responsible for driving forward JRF's strategy to inspire action to solve UK poverty. In this interview we talk 'poverty'

Andy McClenaghan and guests Karl Handscomb, Senior Economist with the Resolution Foundation, Louise Woodruff, Policy and Partnerships Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Kerri Prince, BASW’s Public and Political Affairs Lead discuss what the Chancellor’s announcement on 3 March means for people who use social work and social care services, and people who receive support from the social security system, as well as the wider implications for society. Organisational responses to the Budget: - BASW: https://www.basw.co.uk/media/news/2021/mar/basw-responds-budget-2021 - JRF: https://www.jrf.org.uk/report/jrf-spring-budget-2021-analysis - Resolution Foundation: https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2021/03/Spending-fast-taxing-slow.pdf

In today's special we focus on the debate around extending free school meals during the holidays. Mark Littlewood, director general of the Institute for Economic Affairs, tells Bloomberg Westminster's Roger Hearing and Sebastian Salek why it's not the best policy for making sure children don't go hungry. Plus, Iain Porter from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation joins for a look at how serious a problem poverty in Britain has become.

Mark Campanale is an award winning Sustainable Investment expert, the Founder & Executive Director of the Carbon Tracker Initiative and conceived the ‘unburnable carbon’ capital markets thesis. He has twenty-five years experience in sustainable financial markets working for major institutional asset management companies.  Please listen to the episode to be inspired beyond any boundaries and read the “More about Mark Campanale” section at the end of these notes to learn more about his outstanding career and contribution to the financial markets and our society at large. Highlights: How can we change financial Markets for good?  “There is an old saying: How do you change capitalism? You need to take control of the capital.” Mark’s (career) evolution and path to founding Carbon Tracker: Going to The University of York Crossing the Sahara Desert Becoming an analyst assessing projects for Live Aid Working on the first fairtrade coffee in Tanzania in1988 Pioneering green finance alongside Tessa Tennant founder of Merlin Ecology Fund Being one of the first “green analyst” in the City of London Investing in the first renewable energy business Knowing what you don’t like: Stop the city protest Inspiring women leaders in the industry How global warming motivated Mark to find solutions through the world of finance. Xtrata’s IPO and the lack of sustainable impact information on their documentation. The long list of supporters, advocates and funders of this movement “In the same way that Bill McKibben with the divestment movement managed to change everything, Mark Carney carried this message into the world of financial markets regulation has changed everything.” Re-thinking the purpose of finance: The future of the planet, the security of the financial system and pension schemes. Paris Climate agreement: Investors are absolutely aligned with a safe outcome. The analysis of ecological boundaries and its financial impact “Four or five hedge funds are now shorting the fossil fuel industry and going long on the clean economy. I think we are going to see a lot more of that in the future.” “Everyone that has sold out of the fossil fuels sector or shorted it in from 10 years ago has done extremely well, both on a relative and absolute basis … but we need a forceful intervention”. Using Satellites and AI to help cut carbon emissions: Transparency is a crucial element of accountability. Trying to alert the world of an urgent challenge Time Stamp: [01:14] Who is Mark Campanale - An introduction to his Bio [05:25] What is sustainable and impact investing? Intention and boundaries? [08:03] What ignited Mark’s passion in sustainable finance? [17:50] Background 10 years story of how Carbon Tracker started and materialised - including funding [24:00] Wasted Capital and Stranded Assets: coining the phrase together with Unburnable Carbon [26:00] Ideas are a cursed and the purpose of markets [28:00] Working with investors and educating the market, including Pension Trustees [31:00] Bill McKibben, Mark Carney, and their impact [34:00] The role of the private sector: investors, shareholder, fiduciary duties and pension funds [36:00] The network of initiatives linking into Planet Tracker and measuring the impact on Ecological boundaries [40:00] Supply chain: Fish stock as natural capital, deforestation, agriculture and meat production [42:00] Climate Action 100 and its $46trn coalition and the change on valuations [45:00] The need for a forceful intervention to close the Fossil Fuels sector [46:00] The role of firms such as Share Action and Litigation Funds [48:00] Using AI to create transparency and accountability on Carbon Emissions reporting [49:20] What impresses Mark about Impact Leaders [52:00] Call to action Useful links: Mark Campanale - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-campanale-1886203/ Carbon Tracker - https://carbontracker.org/ Unburnable Carbon - https://carbontracker.org/resources/terms-list/ Planet Tracker - https://planet-tracker.org/ Robin Millington - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robin-millington-60036817 Robin Millington - https://planet-tracker.org/about-us/the-team/ Tear Fund - https://www.tearfund.org/ University of York - https://www.york.ac.uk/ Tessa Mary Tennant OBE - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tessa_Tennant Jupiter Ecology Fund - https://www.jupiteram.com/UK/en/Individual-Investors/Funds-and-Prices/Jupiter-Ecology-Fund Stop The City protests - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_the_City Anne Simpson - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anne-simpson-a3024328 CalPERS - https://www.calpers.ca.gov/page/investments/about-investment-office/investment-office-senior-team/anne-simpson Climate Action 100 - http://www.climateaction100.org/ Waste Recycling Group (Now FCC Environment) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_Environment Asia Energy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCM_Resources Xtrata - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xstrata Glencore - https://www.glencore.com/ Jeremy Leggett - https://jeremyleggett.net/ Rockefeller Brothers Fund - https://www.rbf.org/ Joseph Rowntree Foundation - https://www.jrf.org.uk/ Green Peace - https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/ Friends of the Earth -  https://friendsoftheearth.uk/ Christian Aid https://www.christianaid.org.uk/ James Arbib https://uk.linkedin.com/in/james-arbib-6883973a Nic Hurd - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Hurd Zac Goldsmith - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zac_Goldsmith Lord Stern - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Stern,_Baron_Stern_of_Brentford Financial Times article: “A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy” https://www.ft.com/content/52f2709c-20f0-11e1-8a43-00144feabdc0 Bill McKibben - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_McKibben Rolling Stone magazine article: “Global Warmings Terrifying New Math” -  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/ Mark Carney - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Carney Mark Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizon Speech - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5c-eqNxeSQ Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures - https://www.fsb-tcfd.org/ Ellen Dorsey, Wallace Global Fund - http://wgf.org/ellen-dorsey/ Natasha Landell-Mills, Sarasin & Partners - https://sarasinandpartners.com/stewardship/ Saker Nusseibeh CBE - https://www.hermes-investment.com/ukw/team-members/saker-nusseibeh/ https://www.icgn.org/speakers/saker-nusseibeh-chief-executive-officer-hermes-investment-management Oak Foundation - https://oakfnd.org/ Frederick Mulder Foundation - http://www.frederickmulderfoundation.org.uk/ Steve Waygood, Aviva Investors - https://www.avivainvestors.com/en-gb/about/our-people/s/steve-waygood/ Tzeporah Berman, Fossil Fuel Non-proliferation Treaty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzeporah_Berman Aristata Capital - Litigation Fund - https://www.aristata.co.uk/ Watt Time - https://www.watttime.org/ Gavin McCormick - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinmccormick Key Articles: Financial Times article: “A profound contradiction at the heart of climate change policy” https://www.ft.com/content/52f2709c-20f0-11e1-8a43-00144feabdc0 Rolling Stone magazine article: “Global Warmings Terrifying New Math” -  https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/ Bloomberg article: Stranded Assets’ Risk Rising With Climate Action and $40 Oil. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-11/why-climate-action-40-oil-create-stranded-assets-quicktake How AI and satellites can help cut emissions | The Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation - https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/how-ai-and-satellites-can-help-cut-emissions/ Al Gore and Gavin McCormick - CEO of WattTime - announced the launch of a New coalition called “CLIMATE TRACE”  — which stands for “Tracking Real-time Atmospheric Carbon Emissions” - https://medium.com/@algore/we-can-solve-the-climate-crisis-by-tracing-pollution-back-to-its-sources-4f535f91a8dd More about Mark Campanale: Mark was a co-founder of some of the first responsible investment funds, firstly at Jupiter Asset Management in 1989 with the Ecology Funds, NPI with Global Care, the AMP Capital Sustainable Future Funds, and Henderson Global Investor’s Industries of the Future Funds. Mark served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development working group on capital markets ... leading up to the 1992 Earth Summit; was a Member of the Steering Committee of UNEP Financial Sector Initiative (1999-2003) and continues to advise a number of financial institutions including Tribe Impact Capital and Consilium Capital.   Mark is a Founder Director of the UK Sustainable and Responsible Investment Forum (UKSIF), 1990-2006, is a member of the Advisory Council of ImpactBase.org; a member of the Advisory Board of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s ‘Conservation and Markets Initiatives’; a member of UNCTAD’s Sustainable Stock Exchange’s Green Finance Advisory Group; and is the Hon Treasurer of The Rainforest Foundation UK.  Mark was also Founder of the Social Stock Exchange, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and more recently Big Society Capital. -------- Connect with JP Dallmann on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jp-dallmann/) , Twitter (https://twitter.com/JPDallmann) , or Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/inspiredbyjp/) . 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Presented by Jenni Murray. Every few days we hear of more jobs going. The Bank of England said at the end of last week that unemployment is likely to hit 2.5 million this year. That means the jobless total would almost double by Christmas. Tonight there’s a Channel 4 documentary series starting which focuses on a job centre in Leeds and the people who use it. Jenni is joined by Olivia, who is a single mother mum and unemployed, Jan Baxter, who works at the jobcentre in Leeds and Helen Barnard, Acting Director of Joseph Rowntree Foundation. In Daisy Johnson’s novel Sisters July and September have an uncannily close relationship and one is more powerful than the other. Their mother struggles to cope and when things come to a head after a nasty incident at school they flee to a house in Yorkshire which turns out not to be the refuge they needed. Jenni talks to Daisy Johnson about horror, adolescence and the relationship between the two. The BBC Elite British Sportswomen's Survey was sent to 1,068 women in 39 different sports and received 543 responses. The survey covers trolling; funding and impact of Coronavirus; Periods and the Pill; Racism; Sexism; Abortion and Family Planning; Mental Health. Jenni discusses the findings with Becky Grey, BBC Sports reporter, Susannah Townsend, Gold medal hockey player, Priyanaz Chatterji, Scottish cricketer for Scottish Women’s Team and Tammy Parlour, CEO of Women Sport’s Trust. Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Karen Dalziel

If you're looking for inspiration about making a difference in today's society, look no further. Dame Julia Unwin was Chair of the Inquiry into Civil Society Futures, which published in 2018. In the same year she wrote a report on The Role of Kindness in Public Policy for the Carnegie Trust. For ten years she was chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, where she was the driving force behind the 2016 report “UK Poverty: Causes, costs and solutions.” Julia thinks that we need “a fundamental rethink and recognise that we're here to serve people in poverty, to serve people who are disadvantaged, to serve people who haven't been given a fair chance.” That is not just about asking people questions, but also listening very carefully. Julia started her working life as a Field Worker for the Liverpool Council for Voluntary Services. Other roles have included Community Liaison Officer, Director of the Homeless Network, Chair of the Refugee Council, and Charity Commissioner. Julia says that most of her working life is the result of “accident and opportunity mixed with a bit of curiosity.” She's always sought to work where she could affect social change, “but to pretend there was a plan would be to mislead you.” The report on Civil Society Futures contends that “Civil society risks becoming irrelevant if we do not change”: Julia believes that new ways of organising are emerging constantly in communities, for example the response to the recent flooding in the UK, and there is a risk to the established institutions if they don't recognise the new ways of operating. Civil Society Futures has provided “a roadmap for how we can behave differently and how institutions and organisations can adapt their practices, behaviours and attitudes.” Julia maintains that local government has always been dependent on the network of association that naturally arises within any community. It's a recognition of this that has made ‘The Wigan Deal' a success, yet it is perilous to imagine that such networks are inexhaustible. She is concerned that there is a tendency to use the same procurement approach for all local authority services, and that the approach that works for IT and cleaning may be ill-suited to civil society relationships, with the consequence that the authority risks being further distanced from the community. The Wigan Deal and similar initiatives in the NW have positioned local government as a resource for the community, and not the community as a resource for local government. The deal embodies a new relationship for those organisations which are (to use a 70s turn of phrase) ‘outside the state.' The Wigan Deal and similar initiatives have also ushered in a different style of leadership, one which requires courage and flexibility, and the ability to follow as well as lead. Julia would contend that the success of such arrangements depends on a network of leaders rather than a single leader. The deep connections that people make with one another are essential to those networks. However, there are developments that militate against the new way of leading is that leaders don't always have the permission and the space to lead on account of social media for example. Julia is “a huge optimist” – humans have always been at our very best in difficult times. “The Sheffield civil society that you can see outside of this office was created in the heat of the industrial revolution when people's lives were utterly miserable…” She says it is “important that we have the tools and the self-belief to think that we can do something about it.” Julia sees the declaration of a climate crisis by the Government is a tipping point in the realisation (though it may not be a tipping point in action yet) that there is an issue to be faced. She would contend that the last general election was a tipping point that reflected the deep despair and anger in some parts of England. Julia would agree with Kirsty McNeill of Save the Children that civil...

Throughout 2019, CapX has been working with the anti-poverty charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on a project about rebalancing Britain - looking at how to tackle the longstanding issues in the British economy such as the gap between towns and cities, rural and urban areas and the different regions of the UK.A big focus of that project has been how to improve the lot of low-income voters. So to discuss that this week, we brought together JRF’s Executive Director Claire Ainsley; pollster extraordinaire James Kanagasooriam; and CapX's Deputy Editor Frank Lawton. I began by asking Claire about just how important low-income voters will be in the coming election. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Disadvantaged places combine low levels of economic activity with high proportions of vulnerable people that have complex needs to support. The last decade of cuts to local authority budgets has made it harder for councils to effectively support these places with less funding. It is against this backdrop that the What Works Centres embarked on a project to focus on how the better use of evidence-based policy might help.  To discuss the issue and findings from the report, Andrew Carter is joined by Meg Kaufman — Project Manager at the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, Henry Overman — Director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth, Mike Hawking — Policy and Partnerships Manager at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Eleanor Stringer — Head of Strategy and Policy at the Youth Futures Foundation.

Episode 160 - The Queen done a speech and it was full of things that may not be relevant in 6 days time, but hey, why not talk about hem anyway as everything in life is ultimately finite. We're back to a proper length pod, Brexit Fallout returns and Tiernan (@tiernandouieb) speaks to Helen Barnard (@helen_barnard) from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (@jrf_uk) about UK poverty. Support the London Challenge Poverty Week here: http://www.4in10.org.uk/news-eventsInfo on the Scottish Challenge Poverty Week is here: https://www.povertyalliance.org/campaigns/challenge-poverty-week-7th-13th-october-2019/5 Weeks Too Long is here: https://www.trusselltrust.org/five-weeks-too-long/COME TO THE LIVE PARPOLBRO SHOW AT 2NORTHDOWN: https://www.tickettext.co.uk/2-northdown/partly-political-broadcast-live-brexitzomgwtfbbq-29102019/Sign up to Tiernan's comedy mailing list here: https://www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/contact/SUBSCRIBE & LISTEN TO TIERNAN HOST THE NESTA FUTURE CURIOUS PODCAST HERE: https://www.nesta.org.uk/feature/future-curious/LISTEN TO TIERNAN ON THE TOTALLY UNPREPARED POLITICS PODCAST HERE: https://soundcloud.com/totallyunpreparedpolitics/tupshow38HOW DOES THIS POLITICS THING WORK THEN? Website: politicsforkids.co.ukUSUAL PODCAST WAFFLEDonate to the Patreon at www.patreon.com/parpolbroBuy me a coffee at https://ko-fi.com/parpolbroWatch Tiernan's comedy specials on Next Up Comedy at: www.nextupcomedy.com/tiernanisgreatJoin Tiernan's comedy mailing list at www.tiernandouieb.co.uk/contactFollow us on Twitter @parpolbro, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/ParPolBro/ and the fancy webpage at http://www.partlypoliticalbroadcast.co.ukMusic by The Last Skeptik (@thelastskeptik) - https://www.thelastskeptik.com/ - Subscribe to his podcast Thanks For Trying here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Binna Kandola, a business psychologist who specialises in racism and sexism, argues that offices are prone to a deep-seated racist culture. “There's a racial hierarchy. It was developed during the course of the slave trade and it's a hierarchy of human beings. And wherever I looked, whether it was Brazil or north America or Europe – [or] even South Africa where black people are the majority – the hierarchy is always the same. It's white at the top, black at the bottom, and everybody else in between.Such prejudices have clear economic consequences. The poverty rate for ethnic minorities is double that of white groups, according to research last year by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, which also noted that workers who were not white were concentrated in low-paid sectors. And that was despite generally higher standards of academic attainment than most white groups.

In episode 55, we talk to Julia Unwin CBE, Chair of the Independent Inquiry into Civil Society Futures, former CEO of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust and prolific thinker and writer on issues affecting civil society. As part of a wide-ranging conversation, we discuss: What is the Civil Society Futures Inquiry & how did it come about? What is the PACT framework and how is it intended to guide civil society orgs in the future? There is a lot of interest at present in ‘place-based’ approaches. Why is this, and what is the power of place? We are seeing the emergence of new organisational models within civil society, including many that look less like traditional hierarchies and more like networks. What opportunities and challenges might this bring? We are also seeing new approaches such as participatory grantmaking, which seek to shift power as well as money towards recipients, gain traction? Will this be a big trend in coming years? Do charities and funders need to be more transparent? If so, why and about what? Who does it benefit? Is declining trust is an issue for civil society? If so, is this merely part of a wider decline in trust in traditional institutions, or do charities and CSOs face particular challenges? How can we reverse this trend? What is the core role of philanthropy within society which differentiates it from either state or market provision? What role can philanthropy and voluntary action play in building bridging social capital, bringing diverse communities together or fostering wider civic engagement? Does this value of charitable giving and volunteering as an activity rather than simply the outcomes it produces need to be a more prominent part of the narrative about its importance to society? What do you make of criticisms that since philanthropy is to some extent a product of structural inequality, it can never truly be part of the solution? Do you think some donors and funders recognise the challenges and are genuinely pursuing structural change? A challenge like the global climate crisis raises difficult questions about whether a pragmatic approach of working with existing systems can ever be enough; or whether we need to embrace more radical, transformative change efforts. Do you think philanthropy is well-suited to the latter? The freedom that philanthropy and civil society have to run counter to the status quo or the policies and public opinion of a particular time has been a key part of driving historic social change. How do we preserve this freedom, whilst also answering concerns that unchecked philanthropic power could end up being anti-democratic? Has the policy focus in the UK over the last 20 years on the idea of charities as delivery agents for public services resulted in the importance of the sector’s campaigning role being downplayed? Has this contributed to some of the challenges we now see such as the Lobbying Act and the use of advocacy clauses in grant contracts? How do we rebalance things, and ensure that civil society is able to play its role in speaking necessary truth to power?   Related Links   The Civil Society Futures Inquiry Julia’s Personal website My Giving Thought blog on the why the way in which we justify charity tax may affect the legitimacy of charity campaigning My HistPhil article on the historical importance of charity campaigning

As a child growing up overseas, Danyal Sattar witnessed destitution at first hand. It was a profound experience that has coloured his life's work. Having worked for Joseph Rowntree and the Esme Fairbairn Foundation he now heads up Big Issue Invest, providing finance to small and medium sized social enterprises, all of which positively influence the lives of people across the UK. He is CEO of Big Issue Invest, the social investment arm of The Big Issue, the magazine for homeless and vulnerably housed people across the UK. In setting up The Big Issue Magazine, Lord John Bird realised the difficulties of obtaining investment as a social enterprise. From this experience came Big Issue Invest, originally conceived as a ‘social brokers network.' Loans under £150,000 to charities and social enterprises are the “bread and butter” of Big Issue Invest. It's a niche that is unattractive to the high street banks, but Big Issue Invest have made it work, with low bad debt. While deploying and growing their existing portfolio the business is also looking ahead at products that will meet the needs of their lenders in 18 months time. With more than one million people in a position of destitution in the UK, the need for the transformative services provided by their borrowers is acute. Examples include a Scottish organisation that is replicating a Dutch model for community care where technology permits reduction of the management overhead and consequently more money is available to pay the front line staff. On leaving education Danyal spent five years with the New Economics Foundation think tank. His application for this role was inspired by seeing the living conditions of the previous wave of Rohinga Refugees in Bangladesh and appreciating that their position at that time was partly due to the economic driver imperative to clear fell trees in support of the Burmese/Myanmar economy. Danyal explains the virtues of having the Big Issue brand behind Big Issue Invest: they are a social enterprise set up by a social enterprise. The third sector recognises them as “one of them.” And trust between lender and borrower is an important part of the equation. Before taking up the role, Danyal asked the advice of other CEOs in the sector. David Gold asked Danyal to tell him what Danyal admired in other chief executives. This included trust, and consistent clarity of direction. Campbell Robb, at that time his CEO at Joseph Rowntree Foundation, cited focus, and prioritisation and the continued question, why are we doing this? Other CEOs pointed to the importance of repetition in relation to key messages and priorities and also continued explaining of the thinking behind them. Danyal talks about the responsibility of following in the footsteps of inspiring entrepreneurial leaders and the responsibility for him and his staff to generate the next wave of ideas. The big challenge Big Issue Invest faces is growing into the autonomy and responsibility that has been delegated to the team. An innovation process has been put into place to ensure that everyone's ideas receive due consideration. Danyal practices Tai Chi for recreation, but it resonates with his leadership philosophy – the idea of dealing with violence without becoming violent yourself. Listening and self-awareness are at the heart of this. He particularly likes the 2008 commencement speech at Smith College by Margaret Edson. In addition to the humanitarian crisis that Danyal witnessed in Bangladesh, he also draws his inspiration from the letters of Martin Luther King. He observes that “institutions can make us behave worse than as individuals” and cites the Macpherson Report as a further example. He underlines the importance of self-awareness. Cycling is a big part of Danyal's self-care regime. He describes it as “a reflection of childhood.” Danyal reflects on climate change: “[It] didn't happen by accident; we have meticulously...

Many of those who voted to leave the European Union live in deprived towns and cities of the UK and were disillusioned with politics. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation teamed up with a think-tank, UK in a Changing Europe, to find out what policies they would like to see to improve their lives. Andy Bounds discusses the findings with Anand Menon, one of the report's authors. Read Andy's article hereContributors: Andy Bounds, Enterprise Editor and North of England correspondent, and Anand Menon, Professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of the UK in a Changing Europe. Producer: Fiona Symon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“With the action inquiry that I’m working on, one of the things that I keep building into is to keep challenging my own assumptions by working with different people who do different things. For example testing methodologies with a fear practitioner.” In this episode of the SCA podcast we meet Joe Doran, Programme Manager at Lankelly Chase to talk about power, action enquiries and their approach to achieving change. Lankelly Chase is one of the funders of Losing Control 2019.At the event, Joe ran an “Help me” session on power with Sally Byng from Barnwood Trust, Fergus Arkley from Power to Change Trust, and Sarah Campbell from Joseph Rowntree Foundation. The session was titled “Funding networks, movements and community leadership not people, organisations and projects” and examined what funders might need to let go of in order to build sustainable investment in networks, movements, leaders and communities.Lankelly Chase is one of the funders of Losing Control, an event that brings together change makers from all kinds of backgrounds, sectors and positions to discuss and create bottom-up and collaborative approaches to social change. Losing Control is hosted by the Social Change Agency and Practical Governance.For more about Losing Control visit the website www.losingcontrol.org. Visit us at www.thesocialchangeagency.org Follow us on Twitter at @SocialChangeAgHost: Esther Foreman, CEO (The Social Change Agency)Guest: Joe Doran, Programme Manager (Lankelly Chase)Producer: Maria Mancuso, Junior Communications Officer (The Social Change Agency) Theme music by Loyalty Freak Music

Poverty in the UK is increasing for the first time in two decades. We are seeing more people struggling to make ends meet. Does television set out accurately the complexities of living in poverty, or too crudely as either a deserving economic victim or undeserving ‘scrounger’? How can we tell more accurate stories of poverty to skeptical audiences, for a fuller debate and actions? A panel from Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018 debate these questions and more. Chaired by Poppy Noor (The Guardian) with the writer Jack Monroe, the filmmakers Mark Raphael and Daisy-May Hudson and Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Campbell Robb. Supported by JRF and Guardian

Julia Unwin asks whether we've lost the human touch in a world of automation and technology. Touch screens, contactless cards and e-tickets are supposed to make our lives so much easier and more convenient. Julia Unwin, former chief executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, asks whether technology and automation and the loss of those everyday human connections are harming the way we interact with each other. Producer: Peter Snowdon.

The Housing Podcast team is joined by Tom Murtha to discuss the controversial Dispatches documentary on housing associations titled Getting Rich From the Housing Crisis. Tom appeared on the programme, but felt it misrepresented his views. The team also hears views from Brian Robson of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Curo boss Victor da Cunha about the documentary. Music by Broke for Free.

In this special episode, Nick Denys interviews Claire Ainsley, Executive Director of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and author of the forthcoming book _The New Working Class: How to win hearts, minds and votes. _

The shortfall of new affordable homes in England will soon be equivalent to a city the size of Leeds according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. They tell 5 live Investigates that supply has fallen short of demand by 30,000 every year since 2011 and the cumulative shortfall could reach 335,000 by the end of this parliament. The government says it's investing £9bn in the sector. Married parents of three Dawn and Adrian, from Milton Keynes, tell 5 live Investigates their family's health has suffered since being forced into temporary accommodation while they wait for suitable social housing to become available. "Both of us have had issues with mental health and ability to cope," said Dawn, who asked that their surnames not be published. "It's all come to a head, the culmination of that means Adrian's pretty much had a breakdown for the last couple of months and been signed off work," she said. Adrian, who like Dawn works full-time, said not being able to afford a home meant that "being a proud man, at the end of the day, I took a lot of stick to myself. I beat myself up inside. "Because when you've got a wife and three children, I felt a failure," he said.

Iain Christie and comedian Chris Cairns joined Mick Coyle on this week's Dad's Hour. The Dad's discussed how difficult it is to bring up kids in 2017 with new research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, showing it costs around £40k for a happy life with two children. Also - how close do you like being to your partner and how acceptable do you look on the school run? All discussed right here. As heard on Radio City Talk. Follow Mick Coyle: @MrMickCoyle

Julia Unwin, former Chief Executive of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, speaks to Edmund Newell, Principal of the educational foundation Cumberland Lodge, ahead of a cross-sector seminar on 'Inequalities & Social Divisions', held at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park on 28 March 2017.

John McGowan, Anne Cooke, Angela Gilchrist and Rachel Terry discuss the effects of poverty and inequality on happiness and mental health. In this discussion we focus on two reports. The first is forthcoming book from a London School of Economics group involving Lord Richard Layard and titled ‘The Origins of Happiness’. Even though this hasn’t yet been released it has prompted a great deal of debate, especially with the conclusion that poverty and inequality may be less important than good mental health for human happiness. The second document is a major report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation written by the Mental Health Foundation’s Iris Elliot. This offers what may be a less surprising conclusion: that poverty and inequality are actually very significant in the development of mental health problems. Links to the reports and other pieces related to the discussion are listed below. The best way follow the podcast is to subscribe to our feed. You can do this by looking up Discussions in Tunbridge Wells in iTunes, SoundCloud or wherever else you get your podcasts from. Or you can paste the following link into your podcatcher of choice http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:56544633/sounds.rss We also put the podcasts and links to what we've discussed on our main site blogs.canterbury.ac.uk/discursive/. As well as that you can follow us on Twitter @CCCUApppsy and on Facebook if you search for Canterbury Christ Church University Applied Psychology. You can follow Angela on Twitter @cyberwhispers, Anne @AnneCooke14 and you Rachel @rterrypsy. Links to things we talked about in this weeks show: While the book by the LSE group has not been published yet we obtained an advance (though draft) copy by contacting them via the following link. http://www.lse.ac.uk/newsAndMedia/news/archives/2016/12/Relationships-and-happiness.aspx The work of the LSE group has also prompted some news paper coverage and letters already including two pieces in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/dec/12/happiness-depends-on-health-and-friends-not-money-says-new-study https://www.theguardian.com/science/brain-flapping/2016/dec/13/mental-illness-and-poverty-you-cant-tackle-one-without-the-other Also there have been a couple of multi-signatory letters: one in the Guardian and the other in the Independent. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/13/looking-for-happiness-in-life-and-at-work http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/letters/aleppo-west-cannot-take-responsibility-brexit-education-theresa-may-leather-trousers-letters-a7477191.html There has also been a response fro the network ‘Psychologists Against Austerity’. https://psychagainstausterity.wordpress.com/our-campaigns/origins-of-happiness-paa-response/   A link to the main Joseph Rowntree Foundation report (published earlier this year) can be found here. http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/publications/poverty-and-mental-health Additionally, Iris Elliot has written a short accompanying blog. http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/blog/tackling-poverty-and-mental-health-%E2%80%93-what-we-know-and-what-we-can-do Finally, Iris Elliot is interviewed in this short edition of the Mental Health Foundation Podcast.  https://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/podcasts-and-videos/mental-health-and-poverty We’d be grateful if anyone wishes to leave any other relevant links in the comment section of our blog. Producer: John McGowan Music: www.bensound.com

How we can spread prosperity throughout society? This panel at the 2016 Labour Party Conference discussed what enables and hinders life chances in the UK. The speakers also explored how policy-makers can make decisions that promote better cohesion at a national and a local level. Panellists: included Seema Malhotra MP; Julia Unwin, Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Louise Haigh MP and Shanker Singham, Legatum Institute.

Aleks Collingwood, Programme Manager, Statistics and Quantitative Specialist, Joseph Rowntree Foundation gives a talk for the Reuters Institute seminar series

Katharine Knox of Joseph Rowntree Foundation discusses the Foundation's work on climate change, communities, resilience and social justice. http://www.jrf.org.uk/topic/climate-change-and-communities

Dr Noah Uhrig discusses ground-breaking new research commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation exploring the links between sexual orientation and poverty.

Dr Noah Uhrig from the Institute of Social and Economic Research discusses his upcoming project, commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation as part of its Anti-Poverty Programme, investigating sexual orientation and poverty in the UK. The project will examine how we measure sexual orientation and poverty, and how theoretical links can be established between them. To find out more about this subject area you can email Noah: scnuhrig@essex.ac.uk To find out more about the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship (CISC), who organised this talk, go to: http://www.essex.ac.uk/sociology/research/centres/centre_cisc/

Tony Stoller, Chair of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust, considers the relationship between popular discourse and policy-making. Drawing upon recent examples from a wide range of sectors, including adult social care, welfare reform, housing and broadcasting,...

Thousands of people are estimated to be working as slaves within the UK, in highly exploitative conditions, with no rights, and under threat of violence. This lecture will discuss some of the issues.This lecture was sponsored by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.