The APLE Collective have been mentioned in an article for the LGC website, written by Helen Barnard. “@HartActionLab and @ThriveTeesside, members of @ApleCollective, say local government should work more closely with those using key services so they are designed and delivered as accessibly as possible” To read the full article:
The APLE Collective have been mentioned in an article featured on the ‘Rethinking Poverty‘ website- written by Katy Goldstraw and John Diamond. “The unprecedented challenges created by the global COVID-19 pandemic have brought about many examples of human kindness, compassion and value-driven policy responses. Painted rainbows in windows across the Read more…
In this digital age we now live in the world seems so much smaller and accessible than ever before, but only for some. For those not riding high on the wave of new technology, the digital divide is an ever-growing expanse of exclusion, isolation and despair. Coronavirus has taken Read more…
Charities warn of ‘devastating effect’ as most vulnerable households left without access to web. The APLE Collective has been quoted in a piece in The Guardian on the ‘Digital Divide’ and the affect it’s having on low income communities. From the article, Yet anti-poverty groups such as the Aple Collective, a network Read more…
The APLE Collective have an article featured on the SW2020-COVID19 website, “For the APLE (Addressing Poverty with Lived Experience) Collective, digital exclusion means exclusion from voice, from an ability to participate in the everyday, it means being silenced. It means our knowledge is ignored which exacerbates economic and social divides, Read more…
The daily realities of the digital divide in the North East of England – a call to connect our community members ‘As an organisation that responds to the needs in our low income communities by, in the first instance, developing trusting relationships with people who live in very difficult circumstances, Read more…
Accessing the internet has always been an uphill battle for people in poverty. Now that social distancing measures have pulled the shutters down on public places that offered free access, that struggle is even harder. “Before the lockdown, my daughter stayed after school every day to use the internet there Read more…
The APLE Collective have a blog post featured on the JRF website, describing the impact of digital exclusion of low-income communities. Crossing the digital divide is essential to ensuring that the response to COVID-19 includes us all, say the Addressing Poverty with Lived Experience (APLE) Collective. For the APLE Collective, Read more…
We are in unprecedented times, all that we have previously felt to be ‘normal’ has changed. COVID-19, the global pandemic, has resulted so far in fundamental changes to the way that we live our lives. Now more than ever, we need to remind ourselves of the values we hold dear; Read more…
On 18 January 2020, Patricia Bailey spoke on behalf of ATD Fourth World and the APLE Collective at the “Speaking to Power” global protest organised by the Equality Trust in Whitehall, London. Good afternoon. I am Patricia Bailey from ATD Fourth World, a human-rights based anti-poverty organisation with more than fifty years Read more…