Category

• Fully Validated Effective Local Practice

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Poverty impact

• Mitigation
• Awareness

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Poverty driver

• Provide benefit in-kind (material)
• Non-driver - improving quality of life

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Keywords

• Basic needs
• Furniture Poverty Mitigation

Aim

• To raise awareness of the issue of furniture poverty.
• To improve understanding of the consequences and reality of living with furniture poverty through research.
• To develop and campaign for evidence-based solutions and.
• To provide assistance to individuals and family units experiencing furniture poverty with the aim of helping them gain access to furniture.

Summary

End Furniture Poverty is a social research and campaigning arm of FRC Group, a group of not-for-profit charities. End Furniture Poverty does not provide furniture, or grants for furniture directly, but provides a service to direct people experiencing furniture poverty towards the appropriate source of support to meet their furniture needs. End Furniture Poverty also conducts social research to ascertain the extent to which furniture poverty is a social problem within the UK.

What difference does it make?

Awareness of furniture poverty is increasing. A goal of EFP is to ensure that - especially in the current pressured times - furniture poverty is always acknowledged in anti-poverty debates and discussions.

Key take-aways

• Prove the validity of your claims and the level of need.
• Demonstrate that change is possible and can be impactful.
• Partnership working is essential. It is not possible for a single organisation to tackle the problem of furniture poverty.

 

Organisations

FRC Group.

Location

National campaign (England and Wales), based in Liverpool.

Contact