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Get Fair campaign

On 21 May 2008, a coalition of 45 organisations came together to hold a parliamentary launch of a new UK-wide coalition campaign that seeks not just to make things better for people in the UK, but more ambitiously, to end poverty in the UK within a generation.

Why Get Fair?

The organisations and supporters of Get Fair want a just and fair society, free from poverty in all its forms. The campaign wants to challenge poverty in the UK and positively change public attitudes. Recent research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation found that ‘the public is a long way from supporting an anti-UK poverty agenda. They are not aware of the problem and do not believe that it is a legitimate issue’.

The campaign is calling on all political parties to commit to concrete measures to ensure decent, adequate incomes, fair access to services, affordable homes and decent neighbourhoods. For young and old, for those who are disabled or not and for those who are single or have families. The campaign will run over the next year to ensure priority is given to tackling poverty in all its forms.

Which organisations are part of the campaign?

Among those already signed up to the campaign are Help the Aged, Inclusion Scotland, Disability Alliance, Mind, Muslim Council of Britain, One Parent Families, Oxfam UK Poverty Programme, Refugee Action, Refugee Council and Save the Children.

Everyone in the coalition is committed to challenging poverty and lobbying government to commit to zero poverty by 2020.

Timetable of events

The campaign will focus on activity in the run up to the next General Election, which will take place in 2009-10. This approach will achieve maximum profile and engagement with supporters, civil society groups and the wider public, and include:

• 4 October 08 (1-3pm) – Keep the Promise, End Child Poverty rally in Trafalgar Square, London (for photographs and multimedia from this event see our Keep the Promise Rally page)
• February 09 – Action Week: ‘Poverty Monologues’ telling the real life stories of how poverty impacts on the lives of people across UK
• Spring 2009 – Lobby and rally event (provisional) supplemented by on-going activities
• Co-branded events, campaign actions and media stunts with partner organisations throughout year
• Regular bulletins and e-actions for individual campaigners

Find out how you can help

Get Fair have produced a leaflet showing how you can help with the campaign. For further information or to register for updates about the campaign visit: www.Getfair.org.uk or contact Niall Cooper, e-mail niallc@church-poverty.org.uk.

More information

• end child poverty campaign
• getfair leaflet (pdf format)
• getfair website
• keep the promise rally - pictures and multimedia
• labour has a poor record on stamping out poverty - Daily Mirror article
• tackle uk poverty, political parties told - press release

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