1. How can we get better at solving poverty and ending destitution
in Yorkshire?
Emma Stone, Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Joy Pocock, Leeds Poverty Truth Commission

2. September 2016

4. Nick
“Poverty leads to decay – the longer it lasts the harder it is to get out.”

5. Understanding Destitution in the UK
Forthcoming research reports in June 2018:
Destitution in the UK 2017 by Suzanne Fitzpatrick, G Bramley, F Sosenko & J Blenkinsopp et al (Heriot-Watt University)
Preventing Destitution: Policy & practice in the UK by Karen Barker, Carla Ayton, Issy Petrie & Adam Tinson (New Policy Institute)
Destitution and Paths to Justice by Grainne McKeever, M Simpson & C Fitzpatrick, co-funded with Legal Education Foundation (Ulster University)

6. Destitution in the UK
Realities
Routes in

7. Destitution in the UK
Routes out
Roles we play

8. Thinking about... Local welfare assistance Advice & awareness
Co-ordination & collaboration
Increasingly... Digital Inclusion
Tackling causes, alleviating effects

9. Our role as a grant maker & catalyst in communities where we operate as Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust

10. & beyond: partnerships & funding for social change solutions

11. JRF’s role in solving poverty alongside others:
JRF: What we’re learning, doing & trying next
JRF’s role in solving poverty alongside others:
Stronger focus on solutions
Holding governments & others to account
Building public & political will

12. Working alongside people with lived experience of poverty

13. Contact details JRF Executive Director: Claire.Ainsley@jrf.org.uk
JRHT Regional Grants team (York & Hartlepool)
Joy Pocock on
Emma Stone will be joining Good Things Foundation