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Outside the jobcentre, on the front line of poverty
CHARLOTTE HUGHES describes a recent day she and her fellow campaigners had helping jobseekers any way they can
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FOR over four years, I have been campaigning against universal credit outside Ashton-under-Lyne jobcentre with a few others.
We offer people going in and out of the jobcentre any help and advice that we can and provide food parcels and solidarity.
We are seeing an unprecedented number of people living in extreme poverty. Many of the people that I speak to every week are desperate not only for food and heating but also compassion.
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