Thrive Teesside

For ten years, we have been campaigning for the Enactment of the socio-economic duty. We’re supporting #1ForEquality and calling for a strong, impactful socio-economic duty. @equalitytrust.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social #DoYourDutyForEquality

Poverty and inequality aren’t inevitable. They reflect choices about how our systems are designed, funded and delivered. The socio-economic duty can change how decisions are made.

Today is the @unitednations1945.bsky.social International Day for the Eradication of Poverty! atd-uk.org/about-us/17t... An important day for listening to the voices of experts by experience

During COVID, I co-produced a film exploring the impact lockdown had on young people’s mental health. Last week I attended the screening and panel, speaking about digital poverty, deprivation, mental health and socio-economic disadvantage. Proud to represent Hartlepool & Stockton-on-Tees 💙

A great afternoon in our community garden with Sycamore Gardening 🌱 Matthew checked our soil, gave us growing advice, and the kids made bird fat balls to take home 🐦 We also planted more community-donated flowers and plants 🌸

Everyone should have access to the foundations for a decent life: housing, food, health, and social security. Very proud to sign this letter from @justfairuk.bsky.social calling on the UK govt to fulfil a promise it made 50 years ago. Let's make these rights real. #ICESCR50

🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

"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...

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...

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...

@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

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

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