Half of London children growing up without enough for a basic standard of living, our new Minimum Income Standard report shows. Join our free webinar to hear from the report’s author, Matt Padley, who'll explore the key findings and how we can use the data to drive change. bit.ly/3TiB73G

This data illustrates how, in London, wealth and poverty sit side by side Richmond, one of the most affluent parts of the city, borders with Hounslow, which has higher levels of poverty.

Which London boroughs have higher levels of poverty? How does the picture of inequality differ across boroughs? The latest data on London's borough level poverty...

Could you get through a regular week without a kitchen, or a washing machine or WiFi? Many of us couldn’t. But thousands of families in temporary accommodation are having to – often for months or even years. So with the Better TA Alliance, we’ve launched a new campaign: Fix the Five Basics...

This has had great reach. Let's ensure the output of the consultation clearly considers the responses given

More than 13,000 people were seen sleeping rough on the streets of London in 2024/25 - the highest on record. This is almost 4x higher than 15 years ago, in 2008/2009, and a 10% increase in just 12 months.

Ealing Law Centre and South West London Law Centres are taking joint action to tackle #housing injustice. Both are backing @trustforlondon.bsky.social's campaign to Fix the Five Basics, which highlights the unacceptable conditions many families face in temporary accommodation. (1/2)

Not long now, we are looking for somebody AMAZING please come and join our team.

HIRING: We need someone AMAZING to create welcome and calm, keep everything organised even when things get busy, and who always knows where the scissors, printer ink, leaflets are hiding! Apply to be our New Admin and Referrals Co-ordinator. www://themagpieproject.org/work-for-us/

So pleased to have been able to support @commissionerhr.coe.int to visit members of the 4in10 Network @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social & @xlplondon.bsky.social to listen to mums and young people about their experiences. Poverty is absolutely a human rights issue first and foremost

On day 2 of my visit to the #UnitedKingdom I spent the day listening to the voices of young people, families and those supporting them on the #HumanRights of children in precarious situations @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social‬ @xlplondon.bsky.social‬ @endchildpoverty.bsky.social‬ @4in10.bsky.social

↗️ Newham led by TELCO @citizensuk.org itizensuk.org and @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social rojectuk.bsky.social with Cabinet Member Cllr Amar Virdee ↙️ Lambeth led by @4in10.bsky.social n10.bsky.social @IRMO @advicenow.bsky.social & Lambeth Citizens @citizensuk.org with Deputy Leader Danial Adilypour

The newham charity @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social have been campaigning for ages to stop families being housed without access to kitchens. Families are being forced to live in places with nowhere to cook suitable food for children, nowhere to make an iftar meal, nowhere to make baby formula.

HIRING: We need someone AMAZING to create welcome and calm, keep everything organised even when things get busy, and who always knows where the scissors, printer ink, leaflets are hiding! Apply to be our New Admin and Referrals Co-ordinator. www://themagpieproject.org/work-for-us/

Fix the Five Basics is a campaign of Better TA - an informal alliance of London organisations working with & alongside people living in temporary accommodation @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social @trustforlondon.bsky.social @@positiveeast.bsky.social @4in10.bsky.social @@citizensuk.org and many more

Are you an incredibly capable director of operations – at ease keeping a diverse, grassroots, values-driven, child-centred, deeply co-created, occasionally chaotic, always joyful charity on the road? Apply now! themagpieproject.org/work-for-us/

The Just Ideas' Spring Quarterly Review is now online. We are delighted to share some of our highlights from 2025 so far. just-ideas.co.uk/blog/2025/03...

Our Spring Quarterly Review features two projects - for @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social and for Hammersmith & Fulham Health and Care Partnership - which focus on early years. Focussing on working in an integrated way, both with local organisations and with residents and families.

FUNDRAISING UPDATE! @helengarforth.bsky.social says: "Delighted to have completed the London Marathon! The amazing @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social Mums inspired me to keep going. We have raised £2700 for @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social ! Could we get to £3000? Thanks x" www.justgiving.com/page/helen-g...

What a woman!! It just shows how wonderful Helen is that her stretch fundraising target is already history. Do go and give her even more support.

When politicians have tried to divide us from our neighbours, we’ve fought back. But we need your help to keep fighting.⁠ Can you set up a monthly donation? Your sustained support provides the resources we need to advocate for people’s rights & campaign for change. act.praxis.org.uk/monthly-dona...

Hostile & dehumanising rhetoric about migrants and refugees fuels racism and division in our communities. It lays the foundation for violence, like we saw last summer. We urgently need a wholesale shift in how we speak about migrants and refugees in the UK. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Helen is 80% of the way to her fundraising target for us. Let's get her over the line and show her some love and support as she takes on the #londonmarathon2025. Massive respect, and love. www.justgiving.com/page/helen-g...

What a lovely way to celebrate Mother's day with a song co-written between Magpie Mums and our long time partner London Rhymes www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmI.... Flowers, and tears all round today as we launched it with mums and minis today.

This sheer excitement at a helicopter landing outside our building today reminds us that these are not migrant children, nor children of families seeking asylum - our minis are children and A CHILD IS A CHILD IS A CHILD.🧡

Louder for those at the back - nobody staying in a home office hotel is an illegal immigrant - every single one is going through the legally recognised process of seeking and being assessed for asylum. I don't understand how MPs can call people illegal with impunity - they KNOW they are not.

Thank you to all those who donated to our clothes club. We gave clothes to 90 families on Monday and will do it all again tomorrow. @claptoncfc.co.uk @52lives.bsky.social Children's Salon.

You can't fake connection. See the joy our Rights Experience Advocacy Change team felt meeting @umakumaran.bsky.social. She shared her family history of seeking safety, and her vision of voice, change and representation for families like ours. Thank you Uma, a one-woman inspiration.

Love @praxisprojects.bsky.social love this guide.

Just Ideas' Director - @helengarforth.bsky.social - is running the London Marathon next month in aid of @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social whose work - and the families they support - have so inspired us and captured our hearts. Please visit Helen's Just Giving page and make a donation. Thank you.

The wonderful @helengarforth.bsky.social director of @justideasco.bsky.social is running the #LondonMarathon2025! What a woman! AND she is raising funds for our services as she goes along! Thank you Helen. We will be with you (in spirit) every step of the way. www.justgiving.com/page/helen-g...

Please donate to our hygiene bank collection this weekend if you can. The @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social support mums and young children in temporary accommodation. They need: ● Toothpaste ● Toothbrush ● Shower gel ● Shampoo ● Deodorant ● Sanitary towels

Proud of our steering committee mums, who take on the responsibility of making sure we stick to our mission, vision and values through monthly meetings. These new T-shirts mean all mums can find them and feed back with questions, complaints, suggestions. And they also look SENSATIONAL! Winning!

JOB ALERT: Come play in our beautiful new play space, with London's most gorgeous pre-schoolers! Paid role, Part time play assistant. Short deadline: 28th March. PLEASE SHARE. themagpieproject.org/work-for-us/

Happy #InternationalWomensDay to our wonderful, strong, funny, gentle, fierce, fragile, energetic, exhausted, hopeful, ground-down, enduring, endlessly inspiring international women - it is such an incredible honour to journey with you daily. youtu.be/ocMJRl6zdxA?...

Perks include endless tea and coffee, baby giggles and the occasional hug at ours! AND Working with THE BEST at Praxis obvs!

Creating a staffing structures, or providing cooking facilities, that allowed people to observe their traditions, culture or religion 'too much to ask'? Article 9 of the human rights act 1998 would disagree.

Our families wishing to observe the holy month of #Ramadan in home office hotels face a month with no hot food. Hotels won't adjust meal times. Instead they get this 'snack box' full of inappropriate food. @london.gov.uk @mehdirhasan.bsky.social @tomcopley.bsky.social it's not OK, is it?

As Ramadan approaches, did you know that: the Home Office hotels where many asylum seekers are housed refuse to adjust meal times to serve suhoor and iftar meals, so that the people housed there rely on cold “snack boxes” full of sugary crap that makes fasting much more difficult

Great work @praxisprojects.bsky.social. The hostile immigration environment is regressive, cruel, immoral, unworkable and actually costs the country more than abolishing it would. #AllOurChildren deserve to thrive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d9Y...

Newham has the highest proportion of residents in TA by far. For every 1,000 households in the borough, 52 are homeless and living in TA. But in just about every borough, the problem is acute.

Since 2011 the number of households in TA in London has increased significantly. In 2023 – the last year we have full data for – 61,000 households were in TA, almost 50% higher than a decade earlier. The data from the first half of 2024 suggests this is set to increase again.

More than 60,000 households in London are homeless and living in temporary accommodation. What does the latest data show? Why does it matter? And what needs to change? A thread...

Soooo REEEEEED!!! Do we know any painters and decorators? Can anyone help us make our loo a bit less well, overwhelmingly RED? We don't think it would take much, a few pots of white paint and a couple of afternoons? Let us know if you want to volunteer and do something amazing.

JOB ALERT: You: *excited by a well proportioned excel spreadsheet? *have accounting qualification *know frontline work only flourishes on foundation of great financial management? We: *Need to meet you! Apply to be our Finance Lead. 15hr/week, hybrid. www.charityjob.co.uk/finance-mana...

🌟 We launched a crowdfunding campaign for our next funding round ❕ Help us reach our target of £50,000 to support grassroots groups & activist collectives doing the work of resisting Islamophobia and colonial violence in the UK🌱 Check out our campaign video below: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlZp...

'Does TB cause HIV?' 'Can you catch TB by spitting?' 'Is TB hereditary' 'Is TB curable?' Our hearts sing when mums feel free to ask taboo questions without fear. Thank you to Newham's Public Health team for enabling accessible and equitable conversation cutting through shame to the good stuff.

Over on the @justideasco.bsky.social website - a new blog. Looking back on our work with @magpieprojectuk.bsky.social in 2024, including facilitating their Vision, Mission, Values workshop. just-ideas.co.uk/blog/2025/02...

If the government really wanted to put people smugglers out of business, they would open safe routes for refugees.

Been chatting with some valued colleagues. Our shared perspective is that even the very best parenting interventions have only limited impact (at best) unless we pay attention to the family's social and economic context, adopt a trauma-focus, work relationally and flexibly, and implement well.