Tackling Inequalities Shining a light on poverty stigma September 4, 2024 by cuwpadmin The devastating impact of the stigma of poverty has been long established. It is known to worsen people’s mental health, leads to people not claiming all the benefits they are entitled to and increases the risk of children being absent from school. Until recently, relatively little was known about the prevalence of the stigma in […] Read more » Lived experience Poverty and social exclusion
Uncategorized Tackling poverty-related stigma: policy briefing The policy briefing summarises the key messages from our initial desk review of existing research looking specifically at the causes of poverty stigma, its impact, and what works to tackle it. Our Poverty and Social Exclusion review (2022) revealed that tackling stigma is a key priority for people with first-hand experience of poverty. In 2023, […] Read more »
Tackling Inequalities 'Framing' not blaming August 14, 2024 by cuwpadmin I qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist in 1991 and worked with children and their families for the next 16 years. I became increasingly frustrated at the daily challenges of making a sufficient impact with the little time and resources I had. When the opportunity came to apply for the post of Flying Start […] Read more »
Uncategorized A shared sense of purpose drives successful multisector collaboration – lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic August 5, 2024 by cuwpadmin During the COVID-19 pandemic, voluntary and community sector organisations became more visible than ever before. With deep roots into the communities they serve, these organisations were able to draw on local knowledge and existing infrastructure to reach those who needed help the most. A report by Locality (2020) highlighted the role of community organisations as […] Read more »
Loneliness and Connected Communities Why Wales needs a new approach to tackling loneliness June 13, 2024 by cuwpadmin Loneliness is bad for us. It’s so detrimental that in 2023 the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared loneliness a pressing global health threat because of the growing, and startling, body of evidence demonstrating just how bad loneliness is for human health and wellbeing. Research has associated loneliness with increased risks of dementia by 50%, stroke […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero The Cardiff Capital Region, Cars and Transit Oriented Development June 10, 2024 by cuwpadmin The problem Our planning and development eco-system has resulted in us building ‘all the wrong stuff in all the wrong places’ for over 50 years. Homes, hospitals, shops, offices, cinemas, leisure centres, etc are all designed and located around car access. This car based eco-system now means that many new houses are located in places […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero Loneliness and Connected Communities Tackling Inequalities Hidden poverty in Welsh communities June 3, 2024 by cuwpadmin Poverty is sometimes depicted as a primarily urban phenomenon but there is financial hardship in all regions and geographies in Wales. One in five (21%) of the Welsh population are living in relative income poverty; an even greater proportion are going without essentials. Three in ten people (31%) are struggling to heat their homes, and […] Read more »
Environment and Net Zero Tackling Inequalities Navigating farming futures May 31, 2024 by cuwpadmin How can farmers go ‘Green’ if they are in the ‘Red’? Following Brexit and the introduction of the UK Domestic Agricultural Policy, the UK farming sector faces substantial uncertainty. This blog explores some economic, social, and environmental impacts of these changes in Wales, with a particular emphasis on the emerging issue of poverty among farming […] Read more »
Loneliness and Connected Communities Less resilient communities around Wales face extra challenges May 30, 2024 by cuwpadmin New research identifies additional challenges faced by communities at the margins. Following the publication of the Wales Community Assets Index and the Wales Community Resilience Index, Building Communities Trust’s (BCT) Policy Officer, Eleri Williams, explores what these linked but separate indexes tell us about the challenges faced by ‘Less Resilient’ communities in Wales and where […] Read more »
