Dear John

Challenge Poverty Week in England and Wales is now less than a month away, and
people’s exciting plans and ideas are starting to come together.

If you or your church are planning an event and if we can help in any way,
please reply to this email to let us know.

If you haven’t got anything planned, don’t worry… you still have time, and here
are three easy ways you can get involved.

THREE WAYS TO BE PART OF CHALLENGE POVERTY WEEK
1. Invite: Invite your local MPs, councillors, mayor or journalists to see the work of
your organisation and to meet your regulars. Show them what you do, and talk
about what policy or system changes would help your community. Getting your
message across in person is really effective, and if politicians are happy
to be photographed, it can help you to engage more people on social media as
well.
2. Write : Write to your local newspaper, or to local politicians, telling them what
you do and saying what needs to change. You could do this individually or
organise a letter-writing session where your members or regulars can all
write messages, which you can gather together and send.
3. Unite : Find other like-minded organisations in your community and work together.
Perhaps you could organise a local cost of living conversation, discussing
what needs to change and how? We’ve seen in Manchester and Cornwall that
when organisations work together in Challenge Poverty Week, they have a
bigger impact. You can also unite by joining in the conversations on social
media, using the hashtag #challengepoverty and following us on twitter [[link removed]] , instagram [[link removed]] and facebook [[link removed]] .

Remember, the theme for Challenge Poverty Week this year is dignity, so speak up
about what needs to change in your community to ensure that everyone can live
with dignity, free from poverty.

Challenge Poverty Week is a chance to challenge the flawed systems that hold
people and communities back, to showcase what is already being done in
communities to make a difference, to hear from voices that are often ignored or
drowned out, and to build support for dignified responses to the pandemic and
the cost of living emergency.

Download the Challenge Poverty Week toolkit at
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Best wishes

Liam Purcell
Church Action on Poverty

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