Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Isaiah 58:6 (WEB)
We see injustice where the rules and norms of society discriminate against the weakest and give the advantages to the most powerful. Our work concentrates on some of the UK’s biggest current challenges: rising poverty and inequality, the housing crisis and the economy.
Child Poverty Strategy 2025: resources
- Read our full briefing on the strategy (January 2026)
- Read Paul Morrison’s initial blog response to the Strategy here
- Read the faith leaders’ letter responding to the Strategy here
Guarantee our Essentials
The JPIT denominations support the Guarantee Our Essentials Campaign, calling for a social security system that provides enough income to cover life’s essentials. You can get involved with the campaign here.
Archive
The following programmes, campaigns and resources aren’t current but are provided for reference.
Child Poverty call for action
In the run-up to the Autumn 2025 Budget and Child Poverty Strategy announcement, we campaigned for the reduction of child poverty by scrapping the two-child benefit cap. Faith leaders wrote a letter to the Prime Minister and Chancellor in August which you can read here. In November 2025, the rule was removed.
Let’s End Poverty (2023-2025)
Let’s End Poverty is a diverse movement of people who are united behind a vision for a UK where poverty can’t keep anyone down.
As individuals and communities working together, the Let’s End Poverty movement knows what it’s like to live in poverty. We understand what causes it. We can help to solve it. But we can’t do it on our own. We need our political leaders to take urgent, coordinated action to break poverty’s grip.
In the run up to the next General Election, Let’s End Poverty is campaigning to get ending poverty on the political agenda.
JPIT is part of the Let’s End Poverty movement. Find out more and join in here:
Enough To Live
In 2022, the swiftly rising cost of living and accompanying energy crisis affected the poorest people in our communities most. Despite government intervention, many households were left unable to pay their bills or put food on the table.
This crisis is still ongoing. We need solutions that ensure everyone has Enough To Live.
Find out more about the campaign here:
Increasing Poverty by Design
Universal Credit is the UK’s main social security system. It has trapped and continues to trap thousands of families in poverty. Find out more and take action here:
The lies we tell ourselves
Produced by JPIT The lies we tell ourselves challenges the many widely accepted myths about those who live in poverty.
We believe that for justice to be done we must aim to develop a truthful understanding of poverty, its experience and it’s causes.
Enough
Enough is a report produced in 2015 about the Welfare Reform and Work Bill. Every child should grow up in a family with enough money that their basic needs can be met. This report outlines why having enough is so important, and how changes to the benefit system could break the link between what many families with children need and the support these families can receive.
Rethink Sanctions
Rethink Sanctions is a report highlighting the injustice of the current benefit sanctions regime and the harm it is causing to families up and down the country.
The report calls for a full inquiry into the system as well as the immediate cessation of removing benefits from families with children and those with mental health problems.
Faith in Foodbanks
Find out what Churches and individuals can do to engage with the issues raised by the rise in the need for foodbanks.
‘Faith in Foodbanks?’ includes information on the issues, a series of Bible studies and worship resources and practical actions you can take.
Housing
Britain is in the midst of a housing crisis. Housing costs are rising faster than wages. Inadequate housing support is available to people on low incomes. Not enough new, affordable homes are being built. Waiting lists have grown, and homelessness has increased among families and single people. Rough sleeping has more than doubled since 2010.
You can find resources to help you reflect on the housing crisis here: