‘End stigma for the hardest hit’ - report

Campaign to help stamp out poverty is launched

10:07am Wednesday 27th March 2013

STEPS must be taken to end the stigma of poverty for York’s struggling residents, city leaders are to be told.

Getting extra help to pay energy bills

7:36am Saturday 23rd March 2013

VULNERABLE York residents could be offered extra help with paying their energy bills through a potential link-up between Yorkshire councils.

Archbishop of York in call for focus on social justice

Dr John Sentamu, who was sponsor of the Fairness Commission in York

11:00am Tuesday 19th March 2013

In a special article for The Press on the eve of the Budget, the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, says those who earn more should pay more in taxes

Students aim to hand out unwanted food and products to those in need

8:55am Saturday 16th March 2013

STUDENTS in York have started their own venture helping to redistribute food to the city’s homeless.

Children missing out on free school meals

9:25am Friday 8th March 2013

HUNDREDS of children at North Yorkshire schools are missing out on free meals at lunchtime, according to a children’s charity.

70 years on from Beveridge, we risk entering a decade of destitution

1:22pm Wednesday 6th March 2013

It’s time we found the courage of Beveridge’s era to end poverty, Julia Unwin argues.

Volunteers sleep rough to highlight the plight of homeless

Sleeping out in Deans Park at York Minster last night were Kirsty Clark, front, with, back, from left, Georgia Gilbert-Smith, Lora Fenton, Clare Usher and Nick Tilney

9:30am Tuesday 5th March 2013

THE plight of an increasing number of homeless people in York was highlighted last night with about 60 fundraising volunteers sleeping rough in a York park.

Debt and homelessness rise in wake of welfare reforms

8:40am Saturday 2nd March 2013

CHARITIES in York and North Yorkshire say debt and homelessness problems are soaring in the wake of welfare reforms.

3m extra people in poverty after paying their housing costs

Campaign to help stamp out poverty is launched

8:20am Friday 1st March 2013

A YORK charity has revealed that more than three million extra people in the UK are in poverty after their housing costs have been paid.

Strategy to tackle plight of homeless

9:50am Friday 1st March 2013

EAST Yorkshire council chiefs have drawn up a draft five-year plan to tackle the county’s growing homelessness problem.

Homeless strategy could be approved

10:49am Tuesday 26th February 2013

A FIVE-YEAR plan for tackling homelessness in York could be approved by city leaders next week.

Poverty in focus at York conference

8:04am Saturday 23rd February 2013

POVERTY and inequality are being debated by experts in York today.

Heat rises on benefits as April 1 looms

Alli Wilcox at home in Clifton wth her husband, Mick

8:37am Friday 22nd February 2013

Sweeping benefits cuts will be introduced from April 1. The Government says the aim is to make sure work pays, but the CAB warns it is the poor who will be hardest hit. STEPHEN LEWIS reports

Report shows child poverty ‘hot spots’

Campaign to help stamp out poverty is launched

9:13am Wednesday 20th February 2013

NEARLY a quarter of children in some York neighbourhoods are living in poverty but the city is doing better than most, a landmark new report has revealed.

York family’s damp curse

Donna D’Arcy with children Lee and Lucas in her flat.

8:16am Wednesday 20th February 2013

We launched our Stamp Out Poverty campaign to raise awareness of the many people struggling to make ends meet. KATE LIPTROT talks to one family living in difficult conditions.

MP speaks to York teenagers struggling with homelessness

Hugh Bayley MP talks to young people involved in the Scarcroft Project

9:48am Saturday 16th February 2013

TEENAGERS in York coping with homelessness have met MP Hugh Bayley at a housing project which aims to get their lives on course.

MP’s challenge over poverty

Campaign to help stamp out poverty is launched

9:29am Thursday 14th February 2013

MANY more children will be plunged into poverty due to Government benefit cuts, a York MP has said.

Legal aid...can you afford it?

Head of family law Chris Myles outside Crombie Wilkinson Solicitors in York

9:08am Thursday 7th February 2013

Justice is supposed to be for everyone. But cuts in legal aid in April will mean that, more than ever, it will be for those who are able to pay for it. STEPHEN LEWIS reports

We must be careful over language used to discuss poverty, York expert says

1:11pm Wednesday 6th February 2013

WE should be careful about the language we use to discuss poverty, a representative from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has written.

Figures show link between poverty and obesity in youngsters

10:34am Wednesday 30th January 2013

CHILDREN in less well-off areas of York are storing up major health problems for the future as figures show a clear link between poverty and obesity in the city.

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