Poverty

Lea Manor school in Luton will have uniforms donated by easyJet.

easyJet is turning thousands of old crew outfits into school uniforms

Front of toilet cubicle door

Major drive to End Period Poverty with ‘Bring your own’ campaign launch in Wakef...

Some of the portraits that make up the project

Wakefield Cathedral to host service for Poverty Sunday

A statue has been unveiled as part of a campaign to highlight the issue of pensioner poverty this winter.

'Freezing and forgotten': Ice sculpture leads winter fuel cuts plea

Wakefield is set to receive tens of thousands of pounds worth of funding to tackle rough sleeping and homelessness

Homelessness in Wakefield: District gets £65K rough sleeping funding boost

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Sir Keir Starmer speaks at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Watch: Keir Starmer addresses reason for cuts to winter fuel allowance

The cameras are monitored 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Ossett CCTV receives a digital upgrade to creates clearer pictures

A police tent in West Park in Wolverhampton following a stabbing.

Watch: Region records highest rate of knife crime offences

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Munira Wilson MP says schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’.

Watch: Schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products
More than one in five (22 per cent) schoolgirls struggle to access basic period protection, according to research.
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Stacey Dooley

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'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

The event is on Monday, January in the Kingswood Suite, from 10am-3pm, and will be fully compliant with the latest Government advice including face mask wearing.

Opportunities to work in adult social care at Wakefield recruitment fair

LETTER: 'Extra funds do not compensate for earlier cuts'

LETTER: 'Extra funds do not compensate for earlier cuts'

This is why we all need to be talking about mental health

Dr Jane Richardson of the West Yorkshire Archalogical Service with a skull found during the dig in Leeds at the site of Victoria Gate.

Discovery of children's bodies reveals an insight into city's grim past
It is a fascinating look into a more grim side to Leeds's past - all but missing entirely from the history books.
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RSPCA cruelty case.
Lulu the dog left with maggots in a wound.

West Yorkshire has worst animal cruelty statistics in the country

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