Dear John,

I’m emailing to tell you that this weekend, we are helping launch a bold new campaign to press for more urgent action and we want you to join us: Let’s End Poverty.

Let’s End Poverty is bringing together a diverse movement of people and communities who have either lived in poverty or witnessed its effects, and who want change. And it’s a campaign you can get involved in, by signing up at letsendpoverty.co.uk and by joining us online on Saturday at the founding assembly.

Let’s End Poverty stands for a future where poverty no longer keeps anyone down. Where everyone has enough to eat, has a good quality of life and is supported through hard times. Where places like food banks and clothes banks no longer need to be a fixture in our communities. Where children talking about their hopes and dreams all have the same opportunity to pursue and realise those dreams.

We know that’s what people care about because at Church Action on Poverty, we consistently walk with and listen to people with direct experience of poverty.

People like Gemma, who tells us: “Everyone has a right to live a certain standard of living. There shouldn’t be such a gap between rich and poor.” And people like Stef, who recognises that: “In general, the more money you have the more power you have and that doesn’t generally lead to a country that works for everybody.”

I want to live in a UK in which no one has to go to bed hungry and everyone has access to good food. But beyond that, I want everyone in the UK to have the opportunities that many of us take for granted - to enjoy life in all its fullness.

You will have your own reasons for wanting to see an end to poverty in the UK, but what you mightn’t realise is just how widely held that desire is.

This year, 88% of respondents in a YouGov poll said more should be done to tackle poverty in the UK. That’s almost nine in every ten people, a remarkable level of consensus at a time when public opinion is divided on so many other issues. The public will for action is vast and clear – yet national political leadership is sorely wanting.

Politicians who fail to acknowledge the need for urgent action are increasingly out of step with public opinion, and anyone aspiring to be in Government should be making this a priority and a key election issue.

That’s why we’re part of launching Let’s End Poverty this weekend.

Please, sign up and find out more about the campaign at letsendpoverty.co.uk and register for the assembly. If you can’t join us on Saturday, please still sign up on the website, for more information about future events and actions.

Kind Regards, Niall CooperChief Executive of Church Action on Poverty

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