Except for the vikings, Normans, Huguenots, Flemish, Irish….the list goes on. What a stupid article.

My The Guardian story: Half a million children face school holiday hunger if the government fails to renew a £1bn local welfare crisis fund due to end in six weeks’ time, charities warn theguardian.com/society/articl… End Furniture Poverty

In case you missed it: "If the Household Support Fund is withdrawn, there will large parts of England with no form of crisis support:" Labour's imminent choice over the future of the flawed £1bn local safety net for families in dire need theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Like many other ⁦IFAN⁩ members Hereford Food Bank is desperately worried about the HSF’s imminent expiry. Some will lose funding and others know they will be inundated should local direct #cashfirst and other support end ⁦Patrick Butler⁩ theguardian.com/politics/artic…

An announcement on the UK government extending the #HouseholdSupportFund cannot come soon enough. In the long term we need a well-functioning social security system with permanent crisis support established in every local authority in England #CashFirst ft.com/content/da1b78…

📢 After continued campaigning from ourselves and partners, it is a relief to hear that the Household Support Fund is set to be extended again. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

🏆 Nominations are coming in thick and fast for the inaugural Resolve Poverty Awards! New for this year, the awards will celebrate those playing a significant role in tackling poverty in local areas and regions. 👉 Make your free nominations at: resolvepoverty.org/awards/

Really hope this is wrong: POLITICO notes Household Support Fund announcement might wait til Budget. HSF finishes end September. Waiting a month to announce extension would be extremely disruptive & damaging. We need it ASAP to preserve services whilst replacement is designed.

Very happy to have got hold of the new Matt Haig novel at the Southbank Centre tonight & to have heard him in conversation with the brilliant Hollie McNish Looking forward to reading this 🙂 📖 🏝️

Currently, absolute and relative poverty are heading in the wrong direction. If the economic forecasts and policies inherited by the new Gov remained unchanged, 1.5 million more people, including 400,000 children, would be in relative poverty by the end of the Parliament.

£95 for adult day 4 tickets at Lords v Sri Lanka (with huge respect) and people wonder why it’s empty?! Sports tickets/concert tickets/train tickets/eating out. The screwing of the British punter is seemingly never-ending…

📣 NEW Joseph Rowntree Foundation & Loughborough University Minimum Income Standard is out - the definitive guide to what the public thinks is needed for a minimum acceptable standard of living in the UK today. A couple of stand out things for me:

Very welcome that the Household Support Fund has been extended for a further 6 months. Much needed over what will be a difficult winter for many. The extension creates a window for a permanent funding solution for local welfare assistance to be found. Resolve Poverty

After continued campaigning from ourselves and partners, it is a relief to hear that the Household Support Fund is set to be extended again. But we also must continue to call for permanent, ring-fenced funding for local welfare support. 👉 questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-statem…

My The Guardian story: UK’s poorest households face another winter of hardship, charities warn, as The Trussell Trust research shows two-thirds of working families on universal credit are struggling to afford food and energy theguardian.com/society/articl…

The Resolve Poverty team will be attending this year's The Labour Party conference in Liverpool 💡 If you're holding a fringe event you'd like us to attend, or are keen to meet us for a chat, get in touch!

📢 Do you have a special interest in the future of local welfare provision? We are seeking experts to attend a data-collection focus group in central Manchester, as part of a wider piece of work with University of York. 👉 If you are interested, please email [email protected].

Our CEO Graham Whitham is speaking at the King’s Fund annual conference next week. He’ll be talking about our work with Greater Manchester NHS focusing on the role of health in resolving poverty.

The UK's economy has stagnated since 2008 🇬🇧 In terms of GDP per capita - economic output divided by the number of people in a country - we've actually gone backwards. A short 🧵 on the countries that the UK was richer than in 2007, but which have since overtaken us...

Another win for Resolve Poverty We've put the socio-economic duty on the agenda across the city region with more and more parts of the public sector adopting it. Now we need to ensure effective implementation so the SED has the desired impact we all want to see.