Our impact
Resolve Poverty plays a vital role in bringing stakeholders together to effectively garner support and focus for initiatives, within organisations and between partners
Resolve Poverty is a nationally recognised leader on poverty and exists to end poverty in the UK.
Backed by the support of our partners and stakeholders, we’ve developed a range of anti-poverty activities since we were set up in Greater Manchester in 2016.
We influence the development and implementation by councils and other public bodies of anti-poverty strategies and the socio-economic duty:
- Several councils and public bodies have developed and introduced local anti-poverty strategies with our support
- We’ve influenced several councils and public bodies to adopt the socio-economic duty.
We create spaces for a stronger focus on policy responses to poverty:
- We established a Local Authority Officers’ Forum in Greater Manchester as a dedicated space to convene around the poverty agenda
- Our most recent annual conference was attended by 170+ professionals and volunteers from across the country.
We develop programmes around boosting household income:
- Over 500 frontline workers have used our Money Advice Referral Tool to get people the financial support they need
- Our Money Matters programme has helped families to access over £350,000 in benefits they didn’t know they were entitled to.
A trusted advocate driving the agenda
A leading and extremely influential voice
We share our leading expertise in how to best prevent and reduce poverty:
- Our fortnightly newsletter goes to 2.6k+ professionals, volunteers and individuals actively engaged in tackling poverty across the UK
- Via our training offer, we’ve equipped 300+ people across sectors with the knowledge and best practice needed to tackle poverty.
We embed the voices of people with lived experience of poverty in decision-making structures:
- Recently establishing a Poverty Reference Group for Greater Manchester to create a sustainable mechanism for influencing local decision-making.
We promote widespread adoption of the Living Wage:
- 700+ organisations have become accredited Living Wage employers since we started the Greater Manchester Living Wage Campaign.
Resolve Poverty provide principled and well-evidenced leadership in terms of tackling poverty
"Resolve Poverty raise the difficult issues and challenge organisations to do more"