Everyday Rights in Action in our 2024 Annual Review

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Poverty in the UK has been intensifying in the wake of the pandemic and a national cost-of-living crisis. And with spiralling inflation hiking up the prices of energy, food, and other basic necessities in the back end of 2022 and early 2023, families living in poverty have been hit the hardest (Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Destitution in the UK 2023). As such, in 2024 our work has centred on ‘everyday rights’ — the essentials that every person should be able to count on: a safe home and decent work, access to healthcare and education, the opportunity to build a family, and the ability to live fully in society with dignity and respect.

These rights are not luxuries — they are lifelines: the building blocks of stability, well-being, and equality. Yet for families living in poverty, they are often denied or only partially realised. At ATD Fourth World, much of our work over the past year has been about creating the spaces where people living in poverty can claim their rights, find support to speak out about injustice, and have their voices heard in shaping the solutions that affect their lives.

You can read more about our work on everyday rights, across both our ‘Giving Poverty A Voice’ programme and our ‘Together in Dignity’ programme, in our latest Annual Review: 2024 Annual Review