Social Justice Chester

People shouldn’t be forced through a degrading & dehumanizing process to receive disability assistance

They shouldn’t be treated as a fake, a burden and an undesirable just to get a benefit that keeps them in legislated poverty

Everyone deserves a living wage, food, housing & healthcare

Everyone.

17.10.2025 08:09 — 👍 395    🔁 126    💬 10    📌 5

No need for a moral panic about the welfare system It’s far from perfect, but the UK’s spending is broadly controlled and employment is high

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social

www.ft.com/content/ee67...

15.10.2025 13:17 — 👍 267    🔁 133    💬 8    📌 8

Three people talking, one holding a big lightbulb representing new ideas. Challenge Poverty Week logo. Text says Get Inspired - Engaging with Parliament. povertyalliance.org/CPW

📣 Free training! Our online session will help you take your first steps in getting your #ChallengePoverty Week messages heard by both political leaders across the country.
📆 Thu 14 Aug - 10-11am
www.povertyalliance.org/event/get-in...

11.08.2025 13:46 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Today is the start of #ChallengePoverty week 2025, a further opportunity to raise our voice against poverty and call for a just and equal Scotland 💪 Please see Lucy’s story, 👇navigating loss of income and insecure housing, all whilst in her hospital bed #EndPovertyNow #WeDemandBetter

06.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Universal credit is back in the dock – this time at the United Nations

United Nations special rapporteurs have called for the UK government to question its reforms to universal credit.

05.10.2025 05:37 — 👍 20    🔁 13    💬 0    📌 1

🚨 For the first time the EU will present an Anti-Poverty Strategy in 2026.
We need more than words. We need action. 💪
#Poverty isn’t just an economic issue, it’s a violation of human rights.
🌍 Join us in pushing for real change: www.eapn.eu/coalition-on...

30.09.2025 08:29 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

The exhibition, titled "Walking Further Together", displayed themes and findings creatively through video, audio, photographs, and artwork, and visitors could add their own ideas. A panel and long table discussion also provoked discussion and further action beyond the event.

06.10.2025 21:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Local exhibition challenges the stigma around poverty An exhibition challenging the narratives around poverty has been held by the University of Chester.

Together with the Inspirers, we co-produced a public exhibition in Chester to showcase our findings and provoke further conversations around poverty and stigma and how they can be collectively challenged www.dee1063.com/news/local-n...

06.10.2025 20:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In discussing these findings, the paper argues for more attention to be paid to the chronic struggle of poverty as a structural harm stemming from intentional policy decisions and legitimated by stigma.

06.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A collaborative workshop where the Inspirers selected, discussed and challenged news headlines and political quotes, revealed how narratives of crisis can function to render deeper root causes hidden and unaddressed. Semi-structured interviews explored these findings in more depth.

06.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The Inspirers wanted to explore and challenge dominant political and media narratives about poverty and hardship amid a "cost-of-living crisis", as many felt that the chronic, enduring structural harms of poverty are ignored in favour of reporting on short-term struggles with living costs

06.10.2025 20:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Inspirers are people with lived and living experience of poverty and hardship, who use this expertise to educate and challenge stigma. In Cheshire West, Inspirers work with the council's Tackling Poverty Team to collectively push for change locally.

06.10.2025 20:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205241267302

Our paper ‘You Can’t Sacrifice Nothing’: Exploring the lived realities of chronic poverty in a cost-of-living crisis through participatory research t.co/ppoYu0wQXm was based on our collaborative research with West Cheshire Inspirers

06.10.2025 20:11 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0