13 July 2022
Our latest quarterly bulletin has now been published online, and contains articles on the 'We Can't Afford to Live' campaign, our new Assistant Coordinator Matt Hunt, Help for Ukrainian refugees, Elisa McDonagh's Derbyshire Everest Challenge, DAST's campaign to save Barrow Industrial Injuries Centre, and the inaugural John Knight Memorial Award and Lecture. You can view […]
Read more >31 January 2022
A Chesterfield campaigner has criticised changes to Universal Credit – which will see jobseekers having to look for work outside their chosen field more quickly or face sanctions as reported in the Derbyshire Times 28th January 2022 Under the Government’s ‘Way to Work’ push, claimants will be given just four weeks – down from three […]
Read more >16 November 2021
The latest annual report for DUWC has just been published and is available to view. Highlights include details of our successful projects including the Tudor Trust ' Street Talker' initiative; Retaining the Universal Credit £20 uplift campaign; Help is Here the Shirebrook based migrant advice initiative and a sweep of all our locally based work. […]
Read more >16 November 2021
What is the £20 uplift? Due to Covid, the Government added £20 a week to Universal Credit. The uplift ended this October, despite the effects of the pandemic continuing to disproportionately impact the UK’s poorest. Why is it going to court? Whilst the uplift itself was arguably inadequate, £20 can make a massive difference to […]
Read more >11 October 2021
Great news as The Henry Smith Charity has recently announced that they have awarded DUWC a grant totalling £148,600 towards three years' continuation funding of salary and on costs of an Assistant Coordinator for a project providing support and services for unemployed people in Derbyshire. Only 20% of recent applicants were successful and they said […]
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