NAWRA committee elections 2016

The committee directs the policy and general management of the affairs of NAWRA.  It consists of representatives from each of the English regions plus two from Wales, one from Scotland, one from Northern Ireland and one nominated by CPAG.  This gives a total of 14 representatives. The representatives of the Read more…

Notes from Sunderland meeting

Thanks to everybody who came along to the NAWRA meeting at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland on Friday, and to Sunderland City Council’s welfare rights team for hosting us. Prof Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy at Durham University, delivered the Phil Hanns memorial lecture on how neoliberalist Read more…

Evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Group on hunger

Many thanks to all those NAWRA members who contributed to the CPAG survey on reasons for food bank use. The response rate was fantastic, with more than 200 advisers filling in the survey. This formed the biggest part of a submission to Feeding Britain’s update report on behalf of twelve Read more…

NAWRA meeting in Sunderland

Our next meeting will take place at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland on Friday 11 December 2015.  Thanks to Sunderland City Council for hosting us. Our guest speakers will be Prof Ted Schrecker, Professor of Global Health Policy at Durham University and Dr David Webster from Glasgow University. There Read more…