Excellent piece from @trussellscot.bsky.social's @ayazmanji.bsky.social on how we need to reform Universal Credit, 15 years after it was announced by the coalition government. www.bigissue.com/opinion/univ...

We’re all set up and ready for #COSLA2025 in St Andrews. If you’re attending, come and visit us at Stand 16 to chat about how we build #CashFirst communities and end hunger in Scotland.

Scotland’s Forgotten Children - The Herald’s campaign to fight child poverty - has been shortlisted for the #MakingaDifference Award 2025 for best regional campaign. VOTE HERE: newsmediauk.org/making-a-dif... Voting closes at 5pm on Thursday, November 6.

Please support if you can! #Newlands #Glasgow 👇

Work is increasingly failing to protect people from hunger. We need action to ensure fair, well paid work that protects people from hardship. Today we’re at @scottishtuc.bsky.social Women’s conf & we’re looking forward to discussing how we make work more accessible & rewarding. #STUCwomen25

📢Reminder - we are recruiting for a Policy and Campaigns Manager (Maternity Cover) You'd be joining a great team 💗 Please share across your networks. www.povertyalliance.org/about-us/rec...

#Dunfermline foodbank at #ScotlandDemandsBetter 👇

Today we joined thousands in #Edinburgh to demand better jobs, better investment in life’s essentials & better social security. #WeDemandBetter #ScotlandDemandsBetter

Independent Food Aid Network member organisations are proud to be marching today alongside @trussellscot.bsky.social food bank teams, other campaigners, and people from across the length and breadth of Scotland We'll see you there! #ScotlandDemandsBetter @povertyalliance.org

📢Today's the day! Today we are marching together for a better Scotland. Join us as #WeDemandBetter March assembles from 10am (buses arriving from 9:30am) at Scottish Parliament.

❗ The two-child limit is pushing families with children to food banks. This policy is unfair and cruel. And it's time to end it. 📧 Email your MP now to call on the Chancellor to end the two-child limit 👇 bit.ly/4ovyIAj

⏳5 days to go! Join us on Saturday 25th October for the march for all of us #ScotlandDemandsBetter 📍Assembly from 10am outside the Scottish Parliament before marching onto The Meadows for a rally with inspirational speakers and live music! Join us: www.scotland-demands-better.com/supporters

📢We're recruiting for a Policy and Campaigns Manager (Maternity Cover) 📅 Closing date: Tuesday 4th November Find out more details via the link: www.povertyalliance.org/about-us/rec...

We’ll be joining Scotland Demands Better this Saturday 25 October, will you join us? #WeDemandBetter

Less than 2 weeks to go until #ScotlandDemandsBetter and it was great to join with campaigning partners at #SNP25 to discuss final plans for the day. Change happens when we demand it. Please do sign up & join us on 25th October 👇 scotland-demands-better.com/march-and-rally

We’re back at #SNP25 today. If you’re here, please pop by our stall with IFAN to hear about our work to end hunger in Scotland and build a future where everyone can afford the essentials. #CashFirst #ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter

All set for our End Child Poverty Scotland fringe at #SNP25

Will you be at #SNP25 this weekend? Come and join #EndChildPoverty's fringe to hear from speakers including @sa4dunfermline.bsky.social to explore what must happen now to meet the 2030 child poverty targets. 📆 Saturday 11th October 🕰️ 12:30-13:30 📍Meeting Room 4, TECA #Aberdeen

Day 5 of #ChallengePovertyWeek and a reminder that last year a shocking 1 MILLION people in Scotland faced hunger due to a lack of money. #WeDemandBetter. Everyone in a rich nation like Scotland should be able to afford the essentials.

We know public debt traps families in poverty and holds them there. Our research into the public debt crisis, with @opfs.org.uk & @trussellscot.bsky.social, highlights how families with a disabled child are at higher risk of being trapped in poverty due to public debt. #CPW25 #ChallengePoverty

✅ Better jobs. ✅ Better investment in life’s essentials. ✅ Better social security. Join the march for all of us. #Edinburgh #25Oct  #ScotlandDemandsBetter scotland-demands-better.com

It’s Day 4 of #ChallengePoverty week and the theme today and we’re making the case for better investment in our communities, volunteers & the life changing services they provide. More here 👇 www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

It’s Day 3 of #ChallengePoverty week & we’re calling for better investment in life’s essentials to ensure everyone has a warm homes and access to better public transport and public services. #WeDemandBetter Read more here 👇 www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

We know the public debt crisis in the UK is trapping families in poverty and holding them there. The fact 1 in 4 children in England have school meal debt shows the financial strain families are under. Read more about our latest school meal debt research: www.aberlour.org.uk/news-item/ne... #CPW25

It’s Day 2 of #ChallengePoverty week. With 1 in 4 referred to @trusselluk.bsky.social food banks in Scotland in work, we must see action to ensure every job has a living wage and living hours & to make work accessible for all. #WeDemandBetter More here 👇 www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Around 1 in 4 children in Scotland are living in poverty. Poverty remains far too high, and people are feeling overlooked and ignored by politicians. The next Scottish Parliament is an opportunity to build a better future for all children in Scotland. 🔽 1/4

Will you be at #SNP25 this weekend? Come and join #EndChildPoverty's fringe event to explore what must happen now to meet the 2030 child poverty targets 🗓️Saturday 11th October, 12:30-13:30 📍Meeting Room 4, TECA (Aberdeen)

Everyone should be able to afford the essentials and a Minimum Income Guarantee would provide a secure foundation for all of us. #ChallengePoverty #WeDemandBetter Learn more here: www.povertyalliance.org/wp-content/u...

We’re really excited to be at @savechildrensco.bsky.social & @jrf-uk.bsky.social Changing the Story launch today in Edinburgh. Looking forward to a inspiring day focused on how we tell the new story of child poverty in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The two-child limit is cruel and unjust. It must be scrapped.

Thanks to everyone donating to Dunfermline Foodbank as part of their harvest service. Six crates (108kg) collected from Dunfermline East Church with Cairneyhill Church also delivering donations to the warehouse from their service with Dunfermline St Columba's next Sunday. @trussellscot.bsky.social

Change happens when we step up and demand it. Join the march for all of us. #Edinburgh #25Oct #ScotlandDemandsBetter scotland-demands-better.com

One million Scots faced hunger last year including 1 in 4 children. This isn’t right. Today we’re in the Scottish Parliament with our team of lived experience experts to share our research and demand better.

We’re excited to be at @povertyalliance.org’s Minimum Income Guarantee campaign launch today! 😁 Everyone should be able to afford the essentials. A minimum income guarantee would provide a #SecureFoundation for all of us.

Over 14 MILLION people faced hunger in the UK last year due to a lack of money. Our latest research shows: ‼️ 2.5m more people are facing hunger compared to 3 years ago 🚸 3.8m children faced hunger 💼 Nearly 1/3 of people referred to our food banks were in a household where someone's working

Scottish pensioner poverty is at a 20-year high - almost 160,000 older people. @trussellscot.bsky.social shows food parcels for older people are up 101% over the past 5 years. Scotland needs a pensioner poverty strategy to stop this trend. cms.trussell.org.uk/sites/defaul...

New shocking research from @trussellscot.bsky.social on the clear signs that hunger is engrained in Scotland. This isn’t right. But we CAN change this. Hunger doesn’t have to be a normal part of life. #ScotlandDemandsBetter 👇

🚨 NEW: @trussellscot.bsky.social shows 1 MILLION in Scotland faced hunger last year. 👶 210,000 were children 👩‍🏭 1 in 4 were in work This isn’t right. Hunger shouldn’t be normal. We can change this. #ScotlandDemandsBetter 👉 www.trussell.org.uk/publications...

🚨 BREAKING: 1 million people faced hunger and hardship in Scotland last year due to a lack of money. This includes 210,000 children. Scottish and UK governments must act NOW to end hunger. We demand better than millions facing hunger in our communities. Read more here: bit.ly/HungerInScot...

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out more and apply 👉 www.trussell.org.uk/our-work/sco...

We’re excited to be in Northern Ireland today for the Anti Poverty Strategy Group’s Rising Together Against Poverty conference. Looking forward to an inspiring day of discussion about the way forward & to sharing lessons from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #RiseAgainstPoverty

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out more and apply 👉 t.co/97fMolISvE

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out what it's like to be a trustee ⬇️ and sign up here 👉 bit.ly/40UPuzr

🗓️ Save the date! On Sat 25 Oct we’ll be in Edinburgh to support #ScotlandDemandsBetter – better security, better jobs & better public services. Join us at 10.30am at the @parliament.scot 👉 www.scotland-demands-better.com

The Carers Parliament 2025 is your chance to put your concerns and questions on caring directly to national and local Government decision-makers. 📅 Thursday 30th October 💻 Join online Book your place today 👇https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NYHXCRV

Change happens when we stand together to win it! @povertyalliance.org are taking the #ScotlandDemandsBetter message across the country - starting in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee. Please share with your networks! www.scotland-demands-better.com/events

❗Scrapping the two-child limit would lift 670,000 people out of severe hardship. It would mean fewer families would need to turn to a food bank, and would give children a fairer start in life.

Want to help us end hunger in Scotland? 💚 Food banks in our community in Scotland are recruiting Trustees! Find out what it's like to be a trustee ⬇️ and sign up here 👉 bit.ly/40UPuzr

Change for the better happens when people stand together and demand it. Join the march for all of us! #ScotlandDemandsBetter ✍️ Sign up: www.scotland-demands-better.com

People turn to food banks when they don't have enough money to survive. Lots of people are in-between jobs, have health conditions or are looking after loved ones. And some people are in work that doesn't pay enough to get by.