Poverty

Some of the locations the youngsters will be visiting.

Sunderland pupils to build schools and tackle period poverty in Kenya

Dr Julie Carter fell running in the Lake District.

GP to run 88 miles to send disadvantaged children to Derwent Hill

A statue has been unveiled as part of a campaign to highlight the issue of pensioner poverty this winter.

'Freezing and forgotten': Ice sculpture leads winter fuel cuts plea

Maling's Rigg in Sunderland where one family went without food for days and never asked for help.

Sunderland tragedy: starving in silence

The parts of Sunderland with the lowest and highest life expectancy.

The areas with the current highest and lowest life expectancy rates

Santander X UK Awards 2024 first prize winners Anushka Mahesh, Sarah Bailey, Aurusha Kharas and Tom Scrope

Entrepreneurs win award for tackling period poverty with £4 underwear

Trussell ambassadors Levi Roots and Mark Hoyle (LadBaby) meet with Trussell Chief Executive Emma Revie outside Parliament

Celebrities are calling for more government action on hunger in the UK

Amazon's Toy Train will be donating hundreds of toys to families in need across the UK in the lead-up to Christmas

Amazon reveals this year’s Top 10 Toys for Christmas

Ruth Lue-Quee, education consultant from Staffordshire, who says period poverty is more widespread than people think

Secondary school teachers call for better and earlier period education

Sir Keir Starmer speaks at Prime Minister’s Questions.

Watch: Keir Starmer addresses reason for cuts to winter fuel allowance

Gabrielle and Rhys will make the seven-mile trek for Sunderland Community Soup Kitchen.

Sunderland siblings Rhys and Gabrielle in epic walk for soup kitchen

A police tent in West Park in Wolverhampton following a stabbing.

Watch: Region records highest rate of knife crime offences

Adults living in hygiene poverty are going without deodorant, toothpaste, or a hot shower to ensure their family can have a meal.

Adults giving up basic hygiene products to ensure family can eat

Munira Wilson MP says schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’.

Watch: Schoolchildren are so hungry they are ‘eating rubbers’

Story of a divorced mum-of-two reveals dark times of hygiene poverty

Simon Howatson and Chris Barton from BornGood with Jamie Wilson setting up laptops at the Beacon of Light.

Free access to laptops at Sunderland's Beacon of Light
BornGood has provided £30,000 worth of laptops and desktop PCs
Tony Gillan

Lee Teasdale on his trek to Everest base camp.

Lee takes on Everest challenge for Sunderland Community Soup Kitchen

Silksworth Sports Complex is hosting a football tournament to help the homeless this Christmas.

Everyone Active uses the power of football to help the city's homeless

An insight into the characters of the old Town End.

Great characters from the East End, including Old Cutty Throat

Many schoolgirls struggle to access period products

Stacey Dooley

Stacey Dooley announces UK tour - full details

Does Rishi Sunak even know the price of a pint of milk? Photo credit: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

KATE OSBORNE MP: Does Prime Minister Rishi Sunak even know the cost of a pint of...

'The new deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Lee Anderson is wrong to believe that charities supporting asylum seekers in Calais are involved in a multimillion-pound industry'. PIC: UK Parliament/PA Wire

Lee Anderson: ‘myth’ those on Universal credit are in poverty

A child carries a tray with food during lunch-break at St Mary’s RC Primary School, in Battersea, south London.

Number of children in food poverty nearly doubles to four million

5 mental health benefits of owning a pet

Free School Meals For All bill reading delayed in Parliament

A woman holds a shopping basket of groceries.

Cost of living: Groceries cost could soar by £1.7bn
The food and drink system could be brought ‘to its knees’ by the price surge
Sophie Wills

University of Sunderland student Laura Clark with her 'Food for Thought' artwork.

Sunderland University student's artwork highlights cost of living

We’re in the midst of a cost of living crisis that is dragging more and more families into poverty.

BRIDGET PHILLIPSON: If we’re to cut crime we must also bring down poverty levels

Fairtrade cocoa farmer Bismark Kpabitey (photo: Fairtrade Africa)

Fairtrade Fortnight: how the chocolate you buy can make a real difference

The North East has the second highest rate of child poverty in the country.

Government urged to put child poverty at heart of levelling up agenda

Energy bill fears

MPs round on Government over gas crisis as research shows 15% of Sunderland home...

Those who were living with domestic violence, neglect, physical abuse and drug and alcohol abuse now have nowhere to go. Picture: PA.

Poverty, hunger and substance misuse: The challenges faced by Sunderland familie...

Labour critical of the Government over child poverty in the UK. (Picture posed by actress)

Child poverty in UK is a national scandal – Sharon Hodgson MP

Ken Loach will appear at this year's Durham Gala after leading the first Davy Hopper Memorial Lecture. Picture by PA.

Ken Loach to appear as guest speaker at lecture held in honour of miners' union ...

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