Daniel Wigglesworth

I love this part of Wales, I've been visiting for the best part of 20 years

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Across the country, households struggling to get by are being overlooked.

@jrf-uk.bsky.social’s latest #UKPoverty2026 report shows that nearly 1/2 of the 14 million people in poverty are living in very deep poverty, on incomes so low they cannot reliably afford essentials like food and heating.

🚨CRUCIAL POLLING OUT TODAY🚨

We show today that economic insecurity is heavily linked to political disaffection in Scotland.

Importantly, though, our poll of 3,000 people shows that politicians can change that if they do key things to make people's lives more secure.

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Child poverty and the two-child benefit cap: explained – Full Fact Our explainer looks at the different ways child poverty is measured, and the impact of the two-child benefit cap.

Earlier this week Kemi Badenoch criticised the government’s use of relative low income as a measure of poverty.

Our recently updated child poverty explainer looks at the various ways in which the scale of poverty can be measured.

The Chancellor made a bold claim today that this parliament will see the biggest reduction in child poverty since records began.

If the Budget doc projection of child poverty falling by 400,000 is right, so is the claim. Removing the two child limit is pivotal to this reduction.

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Our new film argues that community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline.

Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up.

🎥 Watch and share.

Read the story behind the film: www.right-here.org/community-po...

Film by @tuz0.bsky.social

I'm off to see John Reis tonight. Probably my favourite artist and musician (4/4) 🙌

We used to publish these as News to mark a milestone or announcement. We found the presence of the publish date tricky.

We've developed the new format to serve as a landing page for ongoing campaigns allowing us to state our position, demonstrate momentum and maintain lists of signatories (3/4)

Our policy and advocacy campaigns tend to start life as an open letter - a public call for change that brings together cross-sector support to influence decision makers (2/4)

United to Guarantee Our Essentials Over 100 organisations are supporting the campaign to Guarantee our Essentials.

We published an article in a new format (1/4): www.jrf.org.uk/social-secur...

Highlights from this week #SkeetNotes 🧵👇

Publishing for reach How and why we publish digital-first at Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF).

A note on digital-first publishing (HTML) and why it's important for us dwigglesworth.medium.com/publishing-f...

The limits of AI in social change More and more nonprofits are using AI. However, the excitement around scale and efficiency often overshadows a critical question: What does it mean to bring machine-generated abstraction into systems ...

[Terrific piece] The limits of AI in social change - lessons from microfinance idronline.org/article/tech...

Data Dashboard | Who Owns Britain An interactive Data Dashboard exploring who owns and profits from Britain’s essential services.

Who owns Britain www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...

🚨 New working paper alert 🚨
Missing summer — and the Tour de France? Don’t worry, we got you covered. 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️🚴‍♂️
In this paper, we show that being on the route of Tour de France reduces far-right voting. osf.io/preprints/so...

New report: Taxing landlords more is good, actually.

Since 2016, tax reforms helped slash the growth of the private rented sector and boosted first-time buyers—without hurting existing tenants.

A big housing story hiding in plain sight? ⬇️

Great album. Possibly also the best quality vinyl pressing in my record collection

YouTube video by Vox How Trump makes extreme things look normal

Middle-grounding: youtu.be/_v-hzc6blGI?...

Today, Ofgem announced the energy price cap will rise by 2% from October.

Energy bills are already unaffordable in the UK, so what does this mean for families who are struggling now?

Thread 🧵 (1/4)

Reed mace suspended from ceiling to floor

Skylight

A colourful display of various work gloves

Work Gloves

A dry stone wall weaving through trees

Last week I went up to Grizedale Forest to visit Taking a Wall for a Walk. Possibly the most famous sculpture in the forest. Quite overgrown (in a good way) since I first visited, heck that photo was on 35mm

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

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My first proper commission - I actually got paid to write something 🤯 I wrote a little piece for @beelitmag.bsky.social about why I can't wear tracksuit anymore. Class has a uniform - prove me wrong.

Careers Do you want to help build a fairer future, free from poverty? Join us and use your skills to make a real difference.

🚨STOP THE BUS🚨

We have a new vacancy in JRF's Scotland Team.

We're looking for a Senior Policy Adviser to join our brilliant team here.

Passionately believe we can deliver a better Scotland free from poverty? Then it could be 🫵

Details 👇🕑 10/8.

www.jrf.org.uk/careers

At JRF we've come a long way on PDF. At some point I should probably write a blog on how we publish and why, some commissioned writers aren't aware there are alternative options