JRF urges Government to focus on restoring confidence and resilience for families to work, spend and invest, improving protections like disability benefits, housing and essential public services ...

Reflections, learnings and take-aways from JRF's November 2024 workshop, aimed at mapping and assessing sources of AI countervailing power in the UK. As AI technologies advance, there are growing ...

Tilly is a Senior Policy Adviser at JRF, leading the organisation's work on climate justice. Previously, Tilly worked at Citizens Advice on consumer, housing and energy policy with a specific focus on ...

Erika works as a Creative Designer in the Design and Production team. She is an accredited Adobe Certified Professional with her skillset including graphic design, illustration, short video and ...

Sofiya is Head of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at JRF. She is leading the design to become a more equitable organisation, both in terms of our organisational culture and our external outputs. She ...

Melissa is the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer at JRF. Alongside the Head of EDI, she supports the organisation to fulfil its equity ambitions. Melissa leads work on our internal staff ...

Kristyna is the Senior Campaigns Officer at JRF. She is leading on engaging anti-poverty organisations in the Guarantee our Essentials campaign, run jointly across JRF and Trussell. Previously, ...

Not enough food. Can’t heat the house. No bed. Can’t pay the rent. Can’t afford the bus fare to go into town. Can’t afford to have a friend over for tea. Living in fear of the washing machine or ...

One of the greatest challenges we face is the way we’ve come to see our current economic and social models as fixed, even as they are failing us and the planet. We’re living through times of hardship ...

Over 100 years ago Joseph Rowntree created us to provide housing in communities and to tackle the root causes of the major social problems afflicting the UK. We continue to draw inspiration from our ...

Relative and absolute poverty can be presented before and after housing costs (these include rent or mortgage interest, buildings insurance and water rates) and are presented after direct taxes and ...

JRF's work to be an anti-racist organisation and our insights on structural racism in housing, work and health, as well as the heightened risk of poverty experienced by many ethnic minority groups.