📢 Help us build a future where everyone can afford the essentials.

Join our online workshop for organisations and campaigners in Scotland interested in building support for Guarantee #OurEssentials in Scotland.

You can sign up here: bit.ly/EssentialsGE

📝 Writing your food shopping list?

If you can, please add a few extra items to donate to your local food bank. Every item donated makes a real difference and helps the food banks in our network support people in their communities. 💚

Calling all Glasgow Community Food Initiatives and Cash First projects 😀
Cash First in a Community Food Setting - Study and Map Update!
Get your free tickets, lunch provided by MILK Café
Kinning Park Complex
26 April 11-3pm
Glasgow Centre for Population Health Glasgow City HSCP eventbrite.co.uk/e/cash-first-i…

It can’t be right that disabled people are more likely to be experiencing poverty in Scotland.

Read this blog from our Fraser of Allander Institute and our Senior Research Officer Laura Robertson on the additional costs of disability👇🏻

If you live in #Fife and are looking to volunteer to help support your community, Dunfermline Foodbank are looking for volunteers in their #Cowdenbeath & #Benarty centres ⤵️

This #NationalPetDay , we'd like you to meet Dixie! She's West Lothian Foodbank's cutest four-legged staff member. 🐶

Her job responsibilities include being cute and dishing out cuddles to the staff and volunteers in the office. 💚

📢 Women in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 are disproportionately impacted by rising poverty & deepening financial inequality.

Join us, Scottish Women's Aid & @stepchangecharity
for this lunchtime session ⬇

🗓️ 26 April. 12.00-13.30
📍 Online
🔗 Book your free place here: engender.org.uk/content/events…

Really excellent thread here from Helen Barnard on the complicated changing picture of pensioner poverty and how a 'laser focus on the triple lock doesn't help' focus minds on the change that matters.

Free and independent advocacy service VoiceAbility supports people applying for Adult Disability Payment or Child Disability Payment.

Find out more about this Scottish Government funded service at voiceability.org

📈 Government stats show disabled people were THREE TIMES more likely to have turned to a food bank last year, compared to non-disabled people.

Our social security system should be there to support disabled people to afford the essentials. 💚

But right now, it’s falling short.

Scottish Child Payment has increased to a weekly payment of £26.70 paid every 4 weeks to eligible people.

If you're part of an organisation supporting families, help us spread the word to by using the shareable content at bit.ly/ScottishChildP…

❓Balance of power: What powers do we need to advance the #MinimumIncomeGuarantee ?

🗓️2-4pm, Tue 16 Apr
📍City Halls, Glasgow

👇Reserve your place here!

eventbrite.co.uk/e/balance-of-p…

Passionate about ending poverty? Seeking part time work to fit in with other commitments and responsibilities? Looking for an opportunity to work in a busy charity setting in Perth and Kinross? This could be the post for you.

Thank you Thalia for the great write up of our The Trussell Trust Scotland IFAN #CashFirstCommunities event. We look forward to working with Interfaith Glasgow and the Interfaith Food Justice Network!

Universal Credit is just £91 a week for a single adult.

It’s not enough to cover the cost of essentials – and food banks are working tirelessly to fill the gap.

You’ve sent in messages of support to help food bank staff and volunteers to keep going. Here are just a few. 💌 👇

Happy Monday! It's an exciting one for us as we re-open our Ibrox Foodbank Centre today 🥳 It will be open every Monday between 12 and 2pm in Ibrox Parish Church.

If you don't know, the church has undergone extensive refurbishment works, meaning we had to close for a while.

📢 Today we've reached an unhappy birthday – 7 years of families being subjected to the two-child limit to benefit payments, and being pushed into poverty.

In this election year all parties must commit to scrapping this unfair sibling tax. #AllKidsCount End Child Poverty

Our stock are very low at the moment. Over the last few months we have been busier than ever and we would appreciate if you could help us. Our service is bringing relief and dignity to people in crisis. Please get in touch on [email protected] Thank you very much! 💚

Families in the UK are facing hunger and hardship because of the two-child limit to benefit payments.

❌ This isn’t right. ❌

So today the End Child Poverty Coalition handed in an unhappy birthday card to mark 7 years of the two-child limit and call on Department for Work and Pensions to scrap it. ⤵️

Tomorrow is an unhappy birthday, 7 years since the start of the two-child limit to benefit payments

We love birthdays 🎂 but this isn't one to celebrate 😔 today we are taking this message to Department for Work and Pensions

All political parties must pledge to scrap this Sibling Tax

#AllKidsCount