Committee
Annual report 2016
Our annual report for 2016 can now be downloaded and will be presented at our conference in Durham on 3rd March 2017. If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions for future activity, please let us know.
Meetings
Durham 3 March 2017
Our next meeting will take place from 10am-4pm (registration from 9.30am) on Friday 3 March at Durham Town Hall. Find out more
Basic Income
A Basic Income in the UK – ‘what’s not to like’?
Eri Mountbatten, our North Wales elected representative on the NAWRA committee, writes about the concept of a basic (or citizens) income: What is basic (or citizens) income? For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, the central and arguably well founded assumption is that the current welfare system is broken. It demoralises those most vulnerable in society and creates artificial Read more
Meetings
Meeting in Stoke on Trent 2 Dec 2016
Our next meeting will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at Staffordshire University in Stoke on Trent. Agenda Film screening There will be a special, free screening of The Divide at 7.15pm on Thurs 1 Dec. The screening is in room R001 in the Science Centre on Leek Road: The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for Read more
Members
Brian McGarr
Sad news from Durham Welfare Rights: Brian McGarr one of our former colleagues has passed away. A lot of people who are new to Welfare Rights won’t know of Brian. It’s probably only the ‘oldies’ who will remember Brian because he wasn’t active in Welfare Rights for many years due to ill health, but he was one of the pioneers Read more