Attitudes to poverty

About the event

NICVA and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation are holding this seminar on 9 September 2009 at NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gardens, Belfast to look at the following reports:

Poverty in the media - being seen and getting heard-by St Chads, Durham University
This report considers roles the third sector can play to support people with experience of poverty to increase their participation and control of media coverage of poverty issues. This considers opportunities arising from developments in technology and new media as well as traditional media opportunities;

Building public support for UK poverty eradication - by Cambridge Policy Consultant
This report considers successful approaches and gaps to address in the future.

Both these reports pull together experience of over a hundred UK organisations and discuss what has worked, challenges faced and gaps that we need to address in the future to address the lack of public understanding about poverty in the UK - its existence, causes and solutions.

In particular the reports have recommendations about use of new media, about key gaps in public understanding that few organisations or government The seminar will be your opportunity to find out more about this research, share experiences and explore how voluntary and community organisations can help to increase public understanding about poverty, and enable people on low incomes to shape the debate.

A unique opportunity

This event will be your opportunity to find out more about this research; share experiences; and explore how voluntary and community organisations can help to increase public understanding about poverty and enable people on low incomes to shape the debate.

Booking

Places at the event are limited, so if you would like to register, please contact Cathy Breslin at NICVA on:

t: 028 9087 7777
e: cathy.breslin@nicva.org

About the JRF programme on public interest in poverty

This new research is part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation programme on public interest in poverty which provides research and runs other activities to support organisations building public support for action on UK poverty. It builds on findings and recommendations of earlier work which looked at media coverage of poverty and also at challenges to campaigning . Earlier work identified the lack of public awareness of the extent and reality of poverty in the UK along with the lack of representation in the media of people with experience of poverty as challenges to building support for change. These reports look at how to change that situation.