Tag: Welfare Reform

Community workshops to help make your money go further

  Do you need help with money matters? Can you spot a scam? Do you know your consumer rights? Help is at hand. West Yorkshire Trading Standards are offering courses to community groups across South Leeds. The Financial Fitness Leeds project covers a range of topics through interlinked, practical workshops

South of the River – in the land of “reform”

Never mind the Budget this week, it’s the massive cuts already coming our way in the Welfare Reforms that will hurt South Leeds. I went to the Inner South Area Committee meeting on Wednesday night. I haven’t written up a proper report because it was mostly rather dull. However, the

Research aims to give a ‘voice’ to those affected by welfare reform

Leeds Federated Housing Association, which has 4,000 homes across Leeds and Harrogate including about 1,000 in South Leeds, is taking part in a research project to explore the effects of welfare reform. The housing association is working with Ruth Patrick, a doctoral researcher in the School of Sociology and Social