Hope, as a long established non-party political local charity, is committed to tackling poverty and inequality, which from our perspective, has increased dramatically from a high base pre-covid to a much higher one today. This has been caused by unemployment rising on the back of a pre-existent problem of 14m people nationally in poverty already. It creates and exacerbates homelessness, addiction and mental health problems.

This non-selective hustings event gives opportunity for every party fielding candidates at the forthcoming local elections to tell the public of Northampton how their policies will tackle or reduce poverty and inequality. We invite each party to nominate a spokesperson to attend the online meeting, and answer questions from those attending.

Anyone attending must be respectful and polite to candidates.