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Tracey Herrington, Thr ive Teesside The roundtable event hosted by the Challenge Poverty Week: a call to act Archbishop of York in September In October, as part of Challenge Poverty Week (www.challengepoverty.co.uk), we sent a briefing to all MPs in the Diocese of York, and to all northern Bishops. [...] It reported on the Yorkshire event, and encouraged people to do three things: Commit to participate only in poverty discussions that are truly inclusive, and to challenge and question the organisation of ones that are not. [...] and faith-groups in calling on the Government Find out more at www.church-poverty.org.uk/ to keep the lifeline for people in poverty by navigatingstorms retaining the £20 a week ‘uplift’ in Universal Credit which had been introduced at the start of Church on the Margins the pandemic. [...] We continued to explore what it means to be Over 1,100 church leaders signed a joint open a ‘Church on the Margins’ through a research letter coordinated by Church Action on Poverty collaboration with the Nazarene Theological and Christians Against Poverty urging the College and Urban Life in Greater Manchester, Government not to cut Universal Credit by and national collaborations with the Method. [...] She was part of the national Food Power programme, took part in a Food Experiences panel in 2020 and 2021 to understand food insecurity in the context of Covid, and is now part of the Speaking Truth To Power programme, supported by Church Action on Poverty.