"Existence is ours in our own perfect way
You may not see us but we’re here to stay
We’re Thriving Women, our words are worthy
Include our voices and eradicate poverty"
thrive-teesside.org.uk/ghosts-by-th... #IDEP2025
This #IDEP2025, we’re spotlighting Ghosts, a powerful new anthology by Thriving Women.
It explores poverty, inequality & systemic injustice, giving voice to stories often overlooked.
Watch their visual poem here: youtu.be/MBuNSJ1EvEc
Join @local.gov.uk, #1forEquality and more to explore the Socio-Economic Duty & putting poverty at the heart of policy.
🗓 Oct 9 | ⏰ 2 PM GMT+1 | 💻 Free
Featuring our very own Tracey Herrington on engaging lived experience. @poverty2solutions.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-re...
“Lessons to be learnt and experiences to be shared with the vision of creating long term positive change.”
www.aplecollective.com/2024/12/no-o... @aplecollective.bsky.social
Tracey has travelled to London as part of our Welfare Experiences research-
“Full day of discussions to progress the Welfare Experiences research. Five countries coming together to discuss the findings of their respective conversations with people accessing welfare support.”
Things are starting to bloom in our West View garden, #EcoClub have been enjoying the warmer days in the garden preparing the beds for planting🌱🪴
Support for home-educated children in Hartlepool is limited. Families face financial barriers and lack access to essential resources. This needs to change. Read our full statement below. ⬇️ #EducationForAll #HomeEducation
"Did we change things? I don’t know. Will we make a difference? I’m not sure."
Read @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social's powerful blog on taking lived experience to the UN for the CESCR 7th Review of the UK:
🔗 shorturl.at/RbVEX
@grippuk.bsky.social
Screen printing with the Poverty2Solutions team today, brand new designs in preparation for our launch event coming up #DoYourDutyForEquality
Preparing for a Poverty2Solutions event!
The absence of lived experience voices, systems creating constant fear, a government intent on divide & conquer tactics - the issues we just raised with members of #CESCR2025 committee
Watch our 3 speeches here:
@atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social
@thriveteesside.bsky.social
@raparuk.bsky.social
Please listen to Angela and Taliah introducing the message from @grippuk.bsky.social to #CESCR2025. With @raparuk.bsky.social, @thriveteesside.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @koldocasla.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc--...
So proud of our sisters from @thriveteesside.bsky.social and their collaborators from @grippuk.bsky.social for speaking on our behalfs at #CESCR2025 at the UN in Geneva. Lived experience accounts need to be heard to tackle #poverty #discrimination and #injustice in the UK and worldwide
Amanda from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social shares her reflections on the first day at #CESCR2005 with @raparuk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social. Feeling positive that the Committee is listening to lived experience knowledge but frustrated with the govt's usual...
youtube.com/shorts/aQZ3p...
Handwritten poem, on lined notebook with pink edges. It reads: Blah Blah Blah All talk mouths move repeat repeat repear excuse their unwillingness to comply to international law using devolution as an excuse quoting countries not even mentioned nothing to see here nothing new heard same old same old Julie Easley 14/02/2025 Geneva
Poem by @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social sums up how we feel about UK Government's response @ #CESCR2025 right now
@thriveteesside.bsky.social @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @povertytruthscot.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social
Ready and waiting for the meeting between NGOs and #OHCHR organised by @hrw.org
No time for lunch so eating left over breakfast from the hotel!!
#CESCR2025
@thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd4thworld.bsky.social
From Teesside to Geneva- Two “Thriving Women” of Teesside take their voices to the UN! @grippuk.bsky.social @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social
thrive-teesside.org.uk/from-teessid...
Photo of Tracey, taken from behind her, short black hair, green coat, colourful scarf. She is sat on an empty bus with the views of Paris streets through the windows
@thriveteesside.bsky.social - always facing forward, leaving no one behind.
On the way to Geneva #CESCR2005 review with @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social
Amanda, in dark blue coat, sits with Julie, with her long ginger, dreadlocks on a train
Quote of the day from Amanda, from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social & founding member of GRIPP:
"Hope the committee listen and are prepared to have meaningful conversations that lead to change"
Travelling to Geneva for the #CESCR2025 review with @raparuk.bsky.social and @thriveteesside.bsky.social
A big day ahead for @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social and @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social at #CESCR2025 talking about value of lived experience, fears associated with social security system and the instrumental use of divide and conquer in our communities.
youtube.com/shorts/vZ15H...
"800 miles away from Teesside, a million miles away from our lived reality but we do have a right to be here, a right to have our say" at #CESCR2025
@thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social
youtube.com/shorts/e_l3e...
And they're off to #CESCR2025! After 6 years of building solidarity & power - we are off to share our communities knowledge with the UN & hold the UK government to account. Read more here: gripp.org.uk/2025/02/12/s...
@atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social
Julie, wearing sunglasses, a Palestinian scarf, black t-shirt and gorgeous ginger dreadlocks, stares out of a train window. The blue sky and blurred greed trees are seen through her reflection and she has a gentle smile
Our @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social from @thriveteesside.bsky.social contemplating the days ahead as she travels to #CESCR2025 review in Geneva
🚨 From Teesside to Geneva 🚨
Tracey from @thriveteesside.bsky.social shares why she’s taking the voices of Teesside—an area once rich in industry & heritage, now worn down by harsh policies—to the United Nations in Geneva. People here deserve to be heard. Watch part 1 🎥👇
@annafazack.bsky.social - Re your hard-hitting 25/01 article, terrified mothers who have been through this are now hoping to change policies with human rights tools. They are already en route to @ungeneva.bsky.social Please take a look! atd-uk.org/2025/02/11/a... #CESCR2025 @grippuk.bsky.social
This week we are taking our communities' voices to the UN #CESCR2025 with powerful testimony about the living/ed experience of poverty in the UK
Read the submission from GRIPP partners @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social
gripp.org.uk/2025/02/10/t...
This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home.
This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.
🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6
