Poverty

Two people talking on the sofas at the MASH drop-in before it had to close

We need your support to help charity for sex workers in Manchester

A picture of the Greengate neighbourhood in Salford

Stark inequality exposed: gleaming new towers and families in poverty

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

Social media apps displayed on a mobile phone screen. PIC: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Free data and texts from these 12 phone shops near you

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

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

Hazel Grove could see a big change politically this General Election

The affluent Greater Manchester village ready to make a big change

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

Angel Meadows park in Manchester.

The morbid history behind one of Manchester’s coolest neighbourhoods

Lord Mayor of Manchester, Cllr Yasmine Dar (third left) congratulates Rainbow Surprise on their Pride of Manchester Award. Credit: Manchester City Council

The inspirational Mancunians who are the city's real unsung heroes

My cousin visiting us at the house in Preston Street at Christmas - he's well wrapped up. I'm the girl in the blue jumper

I didn't realise I was in poverty - now kids have it even worse

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Leigh Film Factory will be hosting the Wigan and Leigh Film Festival, now in its 10th edition, on 15 and 16 September. Credit: Wigan and Leigh Film Festival

Wigan and Leigh Film Festival returns for its 10th edition

We ask people what they’re sacrificing in the cost of living crisis

A charity football match for Manchester homelessness charity Mustard Tree will pit a team of celebs against a side made up of lawyers and representatives from the charity

Soap stars to play football for homelessness charity Mustard Tree

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley announces UK tour - full details

'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

Oliver Sykes with his book Alfie’s First Fight, which he now has a touring show for children based on. Photo: Oliver Sykes

Manchester writer and performer taking boxing show on tour

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

The Adephi Lads Club in Salford

Manchester news bulletin: local headlines on 25 May 2022

Around one in four children in Greater Manchester are living in poverty, data suggests

Call for action as data reveals shocking scale of poverty

Optometrist Yousuf Mohammad performing an eye test

How a Manchester optometrist helped change lives for refugees

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

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

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