In this episode, we chat to Nick Tilney from SASH in York. This episode is all about how SASH get young people in housing and off the streets of York. We also discuss how the cycle of homelessness and poverty is so much more than getting people off the street. How discourse about poverty and homelessness is so important and how by combating negative ideas of young people experiencing homelessness, we can make real change in our communities. Nick's experiences of watching young people grow relationships with their host families is truly an inspiring take on how a village can raise a child. We talk about the importance of trusting young people to make their own choices and giving them chances through volunteering in their community. This episode doesn't have the revolution planned... but we're working on it.

Huge thank you to SASH and Nick for coming to chat to me about their amazing work. You can find out more about them, how to be a host family or how to donate here: https://www.sash-uk.org.uk/

In this episode, we chat to the unstoppable force that is Angie Comerford from food-bank and provider of most things- Hebburn Helps. This episode is an eyeopening understanding of how food-banks not only help individuals physically by feeding them but by providing them networks and emotional support. This episode goes into the realities that national policy such as Universal Credit has on individuals and families that use food-banks in the UK. This episode is raw but should leave you feeling inspired by how communities provide for each other and how amazing individuals such as the folks at Hebburn Helps care deeply for people stuck in the cycle of poverty. 

Thank you for having me over in your food room with all the tins one woman could imagine, you can donate to Hebburn Helps through their Twitter @hebburnhelps and you can find your local food bank here.

https://www.trusselltrust.org/get-help/find-a-foodbank/

TRIGGER WARNING: suicide 

In this episode, we speak to Police Constable Janine Turnbull from Northumbria Police.  This episode is all about how police officers can forge links and build trust in communities while addressing important issues like poverty. The community engagement's team's work is all about "equality and equity for all" by reaching out to asylum seekers, sex workers and educational facilities to aid women struggling with period poverty and through working with an incredible amount of local organisations. We talk about the importance of discussing period poverty and how conversations about abuse can be introduced through conversations about periods. 

Thank you so much for joining us Janine and for such an informative episode. You can get in touch with Northumbria Police's central engagement team about donating or anything mentioned in this episode via their twitter @NPCENGTEAM. 

You can also access the organisations mentioned in this episode below:

TRIGGER WARNING: abuse.

In this episode, we sit down with University of York's very own LGBTQ+ officer, Gemma Card! Gemma is a music student and Sunderland native. She chats to me about how poverty and LGBTQ+ issues often interact with each other and how important it is to recognise this within universities. We talk about the class double-standards of Russell Group universities and hidden barriers that are so key in getting into university. This episode is uplifting and real, talking about Gemma's experiences and her empowerment to share her important story at the first ever York Has Class Conference 2018. 

Thank you so much for joining me Gemma, you can find her on facebook at www.facebook.com/gemma.card.98. 

In this episode, we chat with professor of developmental phycology and director of the Healthy Living Lab at Northumbria University, Professor Greta Defeyter. Her groundbreaking research into free school meals and food programs for young people in education has been hugely influential and she talks to me about her current research on the missing £88.3 million missing free school meal money, stolen from young people across the UK every year. This episode is all about the importance of legislation, the link between nutrition and poverty and how we can all encourage policy makers to end free school meal injustices for young people. 

Thank you for educating us all on this powerful episode Professor Defeyter, you can find her on Twitter @livinghealthy and you can find the full Citizens UK report into their Just Change campaign report in the link https://www.citizensuk.org/just-change-release-report.

In this empowering episode, we chat with Children North East's Georgina Burt and the Member of Youth Parliament for South Tyneside, Shana McCauley. With Shana's time representing young people's voices in South Tyneside as their national representative, we talk about examples of how schools can do real good when we ask that important question: why? Georgina Burt from Children North East, gets into the importance of asking why we have certain policies in schools to do with uniforms and resources and how we can change everyday school life for disadvantaged young people. This episode's key question to schools, organisations and businesses is "have you thought about it from the point of view of a young person finding it difficult with money?" 

You can find more out about Children North East at https://www.children-ne.org.uk/ and check out Shana's amazing work on her twitter @shana_MYP.

In this episode, we chat with Mark and Jordan from the FAR Centre in Fenham, Newcastle. The FAR centre is a community project that started in the 1980s when community members (and radical mams) of Fenham took the fate of their area into their own hands. The FAR centre is an amazing example of the impact we can make when we have common values in our communities and how we can provide for the most disadvantaged through community action. Jordan has been a user and family member of the FAR centre since he was a child and is now is heading the "I Will" project. He shares his insight about being a young person in Fenham and the importance of sharing young people's valuable experiences. 

Thank you to Mark and Jordan (and the lovely people in the FAR centre) for having me round their gaff for the afternoon, please check out their amazing work at @far_centre on Twitter. 

Hello! Welcome to Deprivation Discourse, a podcast empowering young people's voices on poverty. On this episode, I talk a little bit about my history of campaigning in the Commonwealth, the EU and parliament, what my research into poverty is all about and who on earth I think I am bringing up poverty in 2019. This episode sets the scene for the rest of the series where I talk to community leaders, young people, police, professors and so many others about how we can empower marginalised voices in the UK today.