Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales takes place 11 - 17 October 2021.

Would you or your organisation be interested in organising an event for Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales? Are there certain issues that affect you or your community that aren’t being talked about? Do you know of a local organisation that’s work could be highlighted during Challenge Poverty Week?

Join our introductory session to learn more about Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales, our key themes and messages, and how you could take part in 2021.

We want to recreate the success of last year's Challenge Poverty Week England and Wales again in 2021 by focusing on the theme community after Covid.

Participants are encouraged to consider what needs to change as we emerge from the pandemic, whose voices need to be heard, and who we should be walking alongside as we move forward together as a society.

As we look beyond Covid, we want the voices of people living in poverty and people challenging poverty to be more audible and prominent in public debate. We hope CPWEW will provide an opportunity for organisations responding to need in local neighbourhoods to become more vocal about the underlying causes of poverty and solutions.

We encourage participating organisations to work together with groups that have direct experience and insight of injustices around the way poverty links to race, gender, sexuality and regional inequalities. In doing so, CPWEW will build understanding and alliances.

This is an opportunity for everyone’s voices to be heard loud and clear. It’s a chance to focus attention on the need to tackle poverty – and to show the immense difference we could make to our society if we do.