Poverty

Preston Town Hall.

£200,000 awarded to groups making a 'real difference' in Preston

Rise Up campaign MU Bronze.

'Remarkable' Blackburn Diocese Mothers’ Union wins national award

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street, in central London on November 26, 2025, to present the government's annual Budget to Parliament

'We're keeping our promise to cut energy bills and ease living costs'

New government figures have revealed the areas of North West England with the highest levels of deprivation

10 of North West England's most deprived areas revealed in new data

Lea Manor school in Luton will have uniforms donated by easyJet.

easyJet is turning thousands of old crew outfits into school uniforms

Margaret and Michael Cronin at a parliamentary reception pushing for debt cancellation for the poorest countries

'Loan shark debts of world's poorest countries must be written off'

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

UCLan University in Preston is something of a celebrity, being of the UK's largest universities with a staff and student community approaching 42,000.

UCLan named in top 15 per cent of world's universities
The University of Central Lancashire has risen to the top 15 per cent in the world for the positive impact it has on society and the environment, according to a league table published by the Times Higher Education (THE).
Catherine Musgrove

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

Stock image of a woman looking distressed. Credit: Manuel_Faba/Adobe

This area of Lancashire is the 'most stressed' in the whole of the UK

Free school meals

20,000 Lancashire children in poverty missing out on free school meals

Concerns as unauthorised absences at schools in Blackpool rocket

Concerns as unauthorised absences at schools rocket

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

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

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament
Labour MP Zarah Sultana has accused Tories of ‘blocking’ her Free School Meals For All bill after its second reading in Parliament was rescheduled on Friday (January 20).
Ethan Evans

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

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

Just some of the donations so far to South Ribble's Big Christmas Sleepover

Plea for pyjamas as South Ribble gets set for a big Christmas sleepover

The divide between the rich and poor is still with us says a correspondent

Readers' letters: 'Poverty and crime among the young'

Preston boxer Michael Ramabeletsa

BIG INTERVIEW: After a long and rocky road, Preston’s adopted boxing star Michae...

Value of the magic lantern

Lancashire health report sets alarm bells ringing

A Taste of Honey

As leaden as the River Irwell

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