Addressing Poverty and Covid-19 Impacts in North Belfast through Advocacy and Support
The North Belfast Advice Partnership is dedicated to empowering individuals to secure their rights, access services, and maximize their income. They address local poverty through advocacy, awareness raising, and crisis intervention, providing support such as food banks, school uniforms, and home schooling resources to combat the effects of Covid-19. Initiatives include delivering food parcels, hot meals, and school lunches, as well as providing IT equipment and WIFI access for home schooling.
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Poverty and COVID19 Sinead McKinley North Belfast Advice Partnership Co-ordinator
North Belfast Advice Partnership North Belfast Advice Partnership To provide advice, information, support and advocacy to empower individuals to secure their rights and gain access to the services and entitlements that are available to them. To help people to maximise their income and signpost/refer to other support organisations. To address and tackle local poverty through service delivery, awareness raising and programmes. To highlight policies that inflict poverty on our communities, families, individuals and children. North Belfast Advice Partnership Providing High Quality Advice
Poverty Pre Covid19 Welfare Reform Changes Introduction of Universal Credit Higher Cost of Living Low Paid Jobs Zero Hour Contracts School Costs Expensive Credit Divided Communities Higher Suicide, Addictions and Mental Health
Crisis Intervention Support Food Banks Soup Kitchen Fuel Costs Gas/Electric/Oil Baby items School Uniforms Swap Shops Christmas Support North Belfast Advice Partnership Providing High Quality Advice
Lockdown and Food Poverty Increase in Foodbank Demand and Hot Meals To date we have delivered 6000 Food parcels to families and individuals and 12500 hot meals Food Poverty meets Food Crisis Shielding and Vulnerable/Isolated Stockpiling Access to supermarkets and affordability Lone Parents and shopping Tailored Food Parcels Cultural Diversity Cooking Skills
Lockdown and Poverty School Lunches Scheme 500 School Lunches Provided 5 day of food for school children July and August 2020 Problems with School Meals Vouchers and Accessing School Meals School Uniform Swap Shop School Bags and School Coats/Shoes
Lockdown and Poverty Home Schooling Lack of IT equipment Lack of WIFI Access Lack of parent capacity Lack of routines at home NBAP purchased 120 Ipads and WIFI cards plus provided school activity packs.
Lockdown and Poverty Debt Advice and Money Worries We developed #LetsTalkMoney@Home Packs 600 Packs delivered to families How to access help and support for and money worries Learn Talk Do - Talking to our children about money Budgeting Tools
Lockdown Homeless Support Outreach Support Belfast City Centre Monday Thursday 40-50 Hot Meals Per Day Since Lockdown Clothes, Toiletries, befriending People s Kitchen Belfast Riders Square, Belfast 300 Hot Meals Friday and Saturday
Going Forward Concerns Furlough Ending Job Losses Rent Arrears School Closing and Home Learning Christmas Cold Winter Heat/Eat Homelessness Stockpiling Mental Health and Addictions
