Poverty
Food banks, homelessness, addiction, low education levels, crime … Poverty is the stem of so many issues – let’s build a future where no one is marginalised because of a lack of means. Photo by Jakob Grant.
How the People’s Podium is providing a voice for the residents of Redcar and Cleveland.
The People's Podium is a free space for communities across the country, who may not get recognised by the local headlines to let their voices be heard. The idea aims to build up confidence through supportive workshops, facilitators and filmmakers to help people in the...
Happiness hampers could help end child poverty in Teesside
A primary school teacher, and happiness motivational speaker says that her discrete, no shame hampers could reduce child poverty in the Tees Valley area. Saltburn-born altruist, Shonette Bason-Wood’s charity, Spreading the Happiness, donates to seven schools on...
Kids Eat Free in The Tees: Our Directory – Who, what, where and when?
Many across the region are stepping forward to offer free meals for children over the half-term break. A string of Tees Valley businesses are pulling together to feed vulnerable children this half term, offering a free meal, no questions asked, after the Government...
The truth about child poverty across the Tees
This week we saw the government vote against extending free school meals into the school holidays for children from the highest poverty families across the UK. As a country, since March, many families have faced hardship with the loss of jobs as we went into a...
Help Kids Eat Free in the Tees
Today the Tees Online is launching ‘Kids Eat Free in the Tees’We are encouraging restaurants across the Tees to offer free meals for children.The scheme comes on the back of Marcus Rashford's free holiday lunches campaign that was brought to an end by the government...
Childcare – The Gap in Gender Pay
Why women in the UK are earning less than men is not a straightforward issue to unpick. However, there’s widespread agreement that discriminatory practices and unequal pay are contributing to the problem... It has been illegal in the UK to pay a person less based on...