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Disability charity is awarded £20k grant
A Frome charity that supports people with learning and communication difficulties has been awarded a grant of £20,900.
Openstorytellers, based in Bridge Street, has been given the money over the next two years by Lloyds TSB Foundation for England and Wales.
The grant will help fund an administrator so the charity can continue to help reduce social exclusion.
Openstorytellers was established in 2009 and operates across Somerset and Wiltshire. The administrator will provide support for its projects and services.
Over 200,000 families lose entire working tax credit support new HMRC figures show
The Government slammed by Child Poverty Action Group
Published by Max Salsbury for 24dash.com in Central Government and also in Communities
Over 200,000 families lose entire working tax credit support new HMRC figures show
The Government was today slammed by Child Poverty Action Group as new figures published by HMRC show that over 200,000 families have lost their entire working tax credit support, worth £3,870, from 6 April 2012.
The Chief Executive of Child Poverty Action Group Alison Garnham said: “This is an absolute calamity that plunges nearly half a million children deep below the poverty line. Many of these parents will now have less money in work than if they just claimed benefits. It runs directly against the consensus on the importance of making work pay and the government’s duties on child poverty.
“The Chancellor should have announced at the Budget he would keep these working families afloat and in work, but they were cut loose whilst taxes for corporations and the super-rich were cut instead.”
Britain on the breadline as thousands face food poverty
thousands face food poverty
Penny Marshall: Social Affairs Editor
The impact of Britain’s economic downturn is forcing tens of thousands of ordinary families to queue up for food handouts.
One charity said today the number of people going to foodbanks has doubled in the last year.
Our Social AffairsEditor Penny Marshall has been to one in Coventry, which is among the fastestgrowing in the country:
Not many families say grace anymore, few even eat together. But as the church intervenes to guarantee thousands of families don’t go hungry, perhaps a few are whispering it under their breath.
The news that two new food banks are opening in Britain every week as people struggle to make ends meet should make each and every one of us pause and think.
