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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 1d

Join @local.gov.uk, #1forEquality and more to explore the Socio-Economic Duty & putting poverty at the heart of policy.

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Featuring our very own Tracey Herrington on engaging lived experience. @poverty2solutions.bsky.social

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Apr 9

“Lessons to be learnt and experiences to be shared with the vision of creating long term positive change.”

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Apr 9

Tracey has travelled to London as part of our Welfare Experiences research-

“Full day of discussions to progress the Welfare Experiences research. Five countries coming together to discuss the findings of their respective conversations with people accessing welfare support.”

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Apr 1

Things are starting to bloom in our West View garden, #EcoClub have been enjoying the warmer days in the garden preparing the beds for planting🌱🪴

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Mar 26

Support for home-educated children in Hartlepool is limited. Families face financial barriers and lack access to essential resources. This needs to change. Read our full statement below. ⬇️ #EducationForAll #HomeEducation

Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Mar 10

"Did we change things? I don’t know. Will we make a difference? I’m not sure."

Read @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social's powerful blog on taking lived experience to the UN for the CESCR 7th Review of the UK:

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Feb 17

Screen printing with the Poverty2Solutions team today, brand new designs in preparation for our launch event coming up #DoYourDutyForEquality

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Diana Skelton @dianaskelton.bsky.social · Feb 17

Preparing for a Poverty2Solutions event!

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 13

The absence of lived experience voices, systems creating constant fear, a government intent on divide & conquer tactics - the issues we just raised with members of #CESCR2025 committee

Watch our 3 speeches here:

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ATD Fourth World UK @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social · Feb 13

Please listen to Angela and Taliah introducing the message from @grippuk.bsky.social to #CESCR2025. With @raparuk.bsky.social, @thriveteesside.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @koldocasla.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc--...

From our communities to the UN: Lived Experience must be part of the solution. GRIPP & ATD 4th World

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The Original Mandyque @therealmandyque.bsky.social · Feb 13

So proud of our sisters from @thriveteesside.bsky.social and their collaborators from @grippuk.bsky.social for speaking on our behalfs at #CESCR2025 at the UN in Geneva. Lived experience accounts need to be heard to tackle #poverty #discrimination and #injustice in the UK and worldwide

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 13

Amanda from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social shares her reflections on the first day at #CESCR2005 with @raparuk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social. Feeling positive that the Committee is listening to lived experience knowledge but frustrated with the govt's usual...

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GRIPP @ #CESCR2005 - Amanda shares her reflections on the first day at the UN

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 14

Poem by @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social sums up how we feel about UK Government's response @ #CESCR2025 right now

@thriveteesside.bsky.social @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @povertytruthscot.bsky.social @justfairuk.bsky.social @amnestyuk.bsky.social @universityofessex.bsky.social

Handwritten poem, on lined notebook with pink edges. It reads:

Blah Blah Blah
All talk
mouths move
repeat repeat repear
excuse their unwillingness
to comply
to international law
using devolution as an excuse
quoting countries
not even mentioned
nothing to see here
nothing new heard
same old
same old

Julie Easley
14/02/2025
Geneva

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 14

Ready and waiting for the meeting between NGOs and #OHCHR organised by @hrw.org

No time for lunch so eating left over breakfast from the hotel!!

#CESCR2025

@thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd4thworld.bsky.social

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · Feb 13

From Teesside to Geneva- Two “Thriving Women” of Teesside take their voices to the UN! @grippuk.bsky.social @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social

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From Teesside to Geneva- Two “Thriving Women” of Teesside take their voices to the UN! - Thrive Teesside

Two women from Thrive Teesside, a grassroots organisation dedicated to tackling poverty and inequality, are amplifying their communities’ voices on a global stage. Julie Easley, poet and facilitator ...

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 12

@thriveteesside.bsky.social - always facing forward, leaving no one behind.

On the way to Geneva #CESCR2005 review with @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social

Photo of Tracey, taken from behind her, short black hair, green coat, colourful scarf. She is sat on an empty bus with the views of Paris streets through the windows

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 12

Quote of the day from Amanda, from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social & founding member of GRIPP:

"Hope the committee listen and are prepared to have meaningful conversations that lead to change"

Travelling to Geneva for the #CESCR2025 review with @raparuk.bsky.social and @thriveteesside.bsky.social

Amanda, in dark blue coat, sits with Julie, with her long ginger, dreadlocks on a train

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 13

A big day ahead for @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social and @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social at #CESCR2025 talking about value of lived experience, fears associated with social security system and the instrumental use of divide and conquer in our communities.

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GRIPP at #CESCR2025 - Day 3

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 13

"800 miles away from Teesside, a million miles away from our lived reality but we do have a right to be here, a right to have our say" at #CESCR2025

@thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social

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GRIPP @ #CESCR2025 - Entering Palais des Nations

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 12

And they're off to #CESCR2025! After 6 years of building solidarity & power - we are off to share our communities knowledge with the UN & hold the UK government to account. Read more here: gripp.org.uk/2025/02/12/s...
@atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social

Six hours to Geneva, six years in the making - gripp.org.uk

As GRIPP's delegation start their 6 hour journey to Geneva, we reflect on the 6 years of work that it has taken to get us to the UN

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 12

Our @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social from @thriveteesside.bsky.social contemplating the days ahead as she travels to #CESCR2025 review in Geneva

Julie, wearing sunglasses, a Palestinian scarf, black t-shirt and gorgeous ginger dreadlocks, stares out of a train window. The blue sky and blurred greed trees are seen through her reflection and she has a gentle smile

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 12

🚨 From Teesside to Geneva 🚨

Tracey from @thriveteesside.bsky.social shares why she’s taking the voices of Teesside—an area once rich in industry & heritage, now worn down by harsh policies—to the United Nations in Geneva. People here deserve to be heard. Watch part 1 🎥👇

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Diana Skelton @dianaskelton.bsky.social · Feb 11

@annafazack.bsky.social - Re your hard-hitting 25/01 article, terrified mothers who have been through this are now hoping to change policies with human rights tools. They are already en route to @ungeneva.bsky.social Please take a look! atd-uk.org/2025/02/11/a... #CESCR2025 @grippuk.bsky.social

ATD Fourth World Challenges the UK’s Record on Family Rights at the United Nations - ATD Fourth World UK

Above: Members of GRIPP collaborate to write their UN submission of evidence Press release — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Geneva, Switzerland (…) Read more →

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · Feb 10

This week we are taking our communities' voices to the UN #CESCR2025 with powerful testimony about the living/ed experience of poverty in the UK

Read the submission from GRIPP partners @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social

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Taking our voice to the UN - again! - gripp.org.uk

By GRIPP’s ICESCR team GRIPP has submitted our second submission to the UN’s Committee on...

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · Feb 10

This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home.

This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system.

🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6

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