Category Archives: Communities

Useful links from August 1st to 15th: child households; pooling resources; youth deal.

These are some welfare links we found interesting during the first two weeks of August.

Useful links for July: Universal credits; food banks; austerity blogs

These are the welfare links we have been looking at in July and with May and June’s round-up recently covered, they are now almost up to date.

Keep your fingers on the keyboard to let us know if and how you use the data, or how we can improve by using the comment form below.

Useful links for June: bedroom tax; zero hour contracts; food poverty.

There are three round-up pieces over a few days, of news and data source items on welfare related issues. They are to bridge the gap of the last few months before these news stops become a regular post.

Keep your fingers hovering over the comment form below as we would really like to find out how you use the data links and what areas you want included.

Useful links for May: child poverty; risk of night shelter closure; food banks struggle to cope

Here and over the next couple of days is a round-up of news items and data sources, bridging the gap of the last few months on welfare related issues. This will become a regular post.

Keep your fingers on the keyboard to let us know if and how you use the data, or how we can improve by using the comment form below.

Communities campaigning against welfare changes [The Void]

UPDATE (March 1 2012): I’ve collected any feeds available from the blogs below into this bundle which you can follow on Google Reader. The feeds are also aggregated on the new Help Me Investigate Welfare Facebook page.

More from the excellent blog The Void: this time a hugely comprehensive list of various communities that have largely formed in response to changes to the welfare system. I’ll try to summarise them in a list here – if anyone wants to compile a Google bundle, I’m sure a lot of people would be grateful (I’ll try to do it myself at some point): Continue reading Communities campaigning against welfare changes [The Void]

Communities: Coventry’s Hidden Voices

Matthew’s story is but one of the films the Hidden Voices have put together to raise awareness of the social problems in their area.

Following the posting of this video many have expressed their concerns not only the community’s website, but also on Twitter, facebook and YouTube.

The video was made by 26-year-old, Brad Powell, from Kenilworth who told the Coventry Telegraph:

“Before I did Matthew’s story I never really understood why homeless people were there. This is what drove me to look at homelessness for the first project.”

Currently Coventry’s Hidden Voices are on the look for other stories they can bring attention to. their latest post reads:

Our towns and cities are rich in diversity and accommodate people with different ideals, religious beliefs, social beliefs and view points. We all move forward but our understanding may be limited and misunderstanding can be rife.

To help them find such stories email: share@thehiddenvoices.org.