Media Activity
Resolve Poverty actively promotes our own activities and supports national anti-poverty campaigns through the media. This page details some of Resolve Poverty’s recent media appearances. You can also find our latest press statements on this page.
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Media appearances
Manchester Evening News
‘You want to do more and to give your kids the life you want to – but you can’t’
Read hereThe Independent
Low income families could boost their income by up to £24,000 a year with new scheme
Read hereBBC Breakfast
CEO Graham Whitham talks about the cost-of-living crisis, including rising energy bills
Watch hereSky News
As people struggle without heating, CEO Graham Whitham talks about the gap between what families need but can’t afford
Watch herePress releases
Families gain half a million pounds in pioneering benefit scheme, with billions still left unclaimed
26 August 2025
Low-income families in the North West have boosted their incomes with help from a scheme which provides financial advice in schools for struggling families. After a successful pilot of the ‘Money Matters’ scheme, more than 300 families are around £500,000 better off – an average of £1,634 a year each.
New Crisis and Resilience Fund and Free School Meals extension welcomed, but Government must go further to drive down child poverty
11 June 2025
The Labour Government’s first Spending Review, delivered today by Chancellor Rachel Reeves, included the setting up of a new, multi-year funded Crisis and Resilience Fund to replace the Household Support Fund and confirmation of the extension of Free Schools Meals to all children in families on Universal Credit, which has been welcomed by Resolve Poverty.
New figures show more than a third of children in North West living in poverty
2 June 2025
New research to understand regional levels of child poverty, carried out by Loughborough
University for the End Child Poverty Coalition, provides new information on child poverty across the North West of England.
‘Game-changing’ online financial support finder launched for seven Greater Manchester boroughs
28 May 2025
Resolve Poverty is today launching an online version of its Money Advice Referral Tool (MART), a support finder available for people living in Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan.
New data reveals North West as hotspot for families hit by two-child limit on benefits
4 April 2025
More than a third of the 30 English constituencies with the highest percentage of households hit by the two-child limit are in the North West region, new data shows.
Resolve Poverty responds to HBAI statistics showing child poverty has reached a record high
27 March 2025
The DWP has today released its Households Below Average Income statistics, which show that child poverty has reached a record high – with 4.5 million children in the UK now below the poverty line.