Mon 6 - Sun 12 October 2025
About Challenge Poverty Week
The first Challenge Poverty Week was launched by the Poverty Alliance in 2013.
We wanted to highlight the injustice of poverty in Scotland, and to show that collective action based on justice and compassion can create solutions.
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Resources from CPW 2024
Daily Themes from CPW 2024
Blogs & briefings from CPW 2024
Blog: We should never stop challenging the injustice of poverty
Alyson Laird, Campaigns Officer, The Poverty Alliance Click here to speak with Alyson about CPW25! Moving into the Spring is a perfect time to reflect on what’s come before and to start thinking about what 2025 might look like. We are already jotting down our plans for how we will Challenge Poverty this year, and … Read more
Guest blog – what’s the most effective way of eradicating fuel poverty?
Matt Cole,Chair,Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel Read the Panel’s Recommendations for a Social Tariff! The Scottish Fuel Poverty Advisory Panel provides independent advice to Scottish Ministers on fuel poverty and scrutiny of the Scottish Government’s progress towards delivering Scotland’s 2040 statutory fuel poverty targets. The energy price crisis and the spiralling costs for consumers which … Read more
Challenge Poverty Week – Day 3
End Poverty Edinburgh – a group of campaigners and activists people with lived experience of poverty – held their second citizen led conference at the Grassmarket Community Project. The event focused on issues around child poverty in the morning, and health, wellbeing, and leisure in the afternoon. Scottish Social Justice Secretary Shirley Anne Somerville met … Read more
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