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APLE mention on Rethinking Poverty- WORK WITH ALL MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY TO #BUILDBACKBETTER

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 country and a weekly clap for NHS workers are tangible examples of how much, in the face of adversity, the nation values its key workers. Read more…

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Hartlepool Action Lab- Digital Exclusion

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 us all into a new way of living and working. Our social and business interactions have been replaced with digital substitutes such as Zoom or Read more…

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APLE Collective featured in The Guardian- Digital divide ‘isolates and endangers’ millions of UK’s poorest

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 of people who have experienced poverty, say not enough is being done. “We welcome the positive and compassionate moves being made by government and the Read more…

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Crossing the Digital Divide is essential to ensuring that the response to COVID-19 includes us all

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, as a result a digital divide opens. Digital divide doesn’t just mean having access to wifi, but the ability to pay for it. Our communities who Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

Putting meaning to the ‘Digital Divide’ in the North East of England (Thrive Teesside)

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, I never imagined a world whereby social distancing measures would be implemented. The difficulties associated with trying to stay connected with the people that pass Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

The Disconnect: Swallowing Pride and Feeling Locked Out

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 for her homework. Now, without wifi of our own, I had to swallow my pride to ask our neighbour if we could piggyback onto his Read more…

By aplecollective, ago

Coronavirus response must include digital access connect us all.

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, 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 Read more…

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Expertise by Experience is essential to getting the COVD-19 response right.

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; of compassion and justice. We are in unprecedented times and the new government has an unprecedented task.  We need to rise to the challenge of Read more…

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Speaking to Power: Global Protest to Fight Inequality (ATD Fourth World)

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 experience of tackling inequality and promoting social justice in the UK. Working in partnership with people affected by poverty, ATD Fourth World has, since 1968, concentrated Read more…

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