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Crowd of protestors at Treasury, Whitehall, in response to Rachel Reeve's Spring Statement.

Reeves’ Spring Statement preempted by ‘Tax the Super-Rich’ rally

Scores of protesters gathered in Whitehall on Tuesday calling on Rachel Reeves to reverse proposed cuts to welfare and implement

Hammersmith & Fulham Council launches Crisis Prevention Fund to support residents through cost-of-living crisis

Hammersmith & Fulham Council launched a Crisis Prevention Fund which grants one-off payments to residents struggling through the cost-of-living crisis.

End Benefit Prejudice campaign launches to support private renters in Richmond

A campaign to end benefit prejudice against private renters has been launched by Richmond Council in co-operation with Citizens Advice

What pressures have the £20 Universal Credit cut put on community groups?

The temporary increase for Universal Credit was cut in October 2021, leaving community groups with additional concerns over how to

Universal Credit cuts to be ‘devastating’ for youth in South London’s poorest areas

Upcoming cuts to universal credit may push thousands of children and young people into poverty in South London’s poorest boroughs, local charities and councillors have warned.

Continued housing discrimination sparks protest in Wandsworth

Protestors in Wandsworth claim hundreds of benefit claimants are facing housing discrimination despite current UK equality laws. Campaigners from the

UK’s longest-serving transgender prisoner to run for Richmond Park MP

The UK’s longest-serving transgender prisoner is planning to run to be the UK’s first trans MP in her local constituency

Disabled legacy benefits claimants struggling with pandemic poverty

“It feels like your house is built on shifting sand. It feels like you’re an inconvenience, like everyone is saying:

Single parent families worst affected by welfare reforms as Wandsworth Foodbank sees users surge by 25%

Vulnerable people in Wandsworth are increasingly being forced into food poverty and associated suicidal tendencies by the government’s welfare reforms,

Sadiq Khan joins Labour revolt over £12bn cuts in Osbourne’s Welfare Bill

Sadiq Khan joined 48 Labour rebels who thwarted the party whip – and interim leader Harriet Harman – to vote

Protesters rally against Streatham Jobcentre ‘forcing unemployed people into mental health treatment’

Angry protesters marched on Streatham jobcentre today to share their dismay at a pilot scheme of therapists for the unemployed.

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