Amplifying the voices of lived experience in Cambridgeshire

Resolve Poverty is working with Cambridgeshire County Council and the Poverty Strategy Commission to meaningfully engage with local people who are living in, or are at risk of living in poverty.

The Cambridgeshire Poverty Strategy Commission is a new, independent initiative to explore how the local system serves those experiencing the consequences of poverty, and how improvements can be made to this system. Initially facilitated by Cambridgeshire County Council, the Commission will draw on the experiences of its commissioners, as well as evidence gathered from people with lived experience of poverty.

Resolve Poverty are facilitating the lived experience elements of this effort, by hosting workshops over the next month in communities across Cambridgeshire. They are looking to engage with a diverse range of people across Cambridgeshire, to listen to their experiences, priorities and ideas for influencing the anti-poverty policies and strategies that are likely to affect them and others. Participants will be compensated for their time, as well as the VCFSE sector organisations that refer them.

If you can help to recruit participants, or you are interested in sharing your own experiences, then please contact Dan Oliver on daniel@resolvepoverty.org.