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A year's work after a poverty summit organised by 天美传媒 has led to a听positive impact on the help available for people living in poverty in Bournemouth.

The Local Poverty, Reality and Response summit took place in June 2014 as part of BU鈥檚 Festival of Learning, and was attended by local authorities, community and faith groups 鈥� with the aim of understanding and addressing issues caused by poverty.

In the year since the summit, a number of schemes have been launched to tackle poverty across Bournemouth.
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Local organisations have created a recycling scheme for access to affordable items to set up homes, while projects in Poole and Bournemouth have distributed 鈥楬ome Starter packs鈥� for homeless people.
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A range of cooking courses and community meals across the conurbation for young mums, ex-offenders, young people across multicultural groups, and others on low incomes have been also organised.
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Free Anti-Loan Shark briefings and Financial Education training have taken place while funding for insulation schemes and tackling fuel poverty was granted.

Mark Phillips, a faith links project worker, who contributed to the effort, said: 鈥淭here are long-term plans in the pipeline to continue the successful progress already achieved. 听

鈥淭hese include: looking to reduce the cost of energy for residents across the conurbation; a second-hand clothing scheme for people who can鈥檛 afford clothes from charity shops; as well as developing a local 鈥楩are Share鈥� Spoke that will deliver surplus food from supermarkets to groups. 听

鈥淲e are really pleased the Summit has created some lasting impact.鈥�

Poverty Summit partners have also supported Dorset Community Foundation鈥檚 鈥楽urviving Winter Campaign鈥� and crowd-sourced funding to provide support to a homeless person in crisis, while听天美传媒 students also collected more than two tonnes of food donations for the Big Feed - an initiative that will continue this year.听

More than 150 people attended the Local Poverty, Reality and Response summit in June 2014 to discuss the realities of poverty in the local area and commit to action to address the issue.

Representatives from local authorities, community and faith groups as well as residents and businesses attended a series of workshops designed to help everyone work together to address issues caused by living in poverty.

Ian Jones, Head of Regional Community Partnerships said: "The issues surrounding the poverty agenda are an on-going challenge for the community as a whole and to host a poverty summit seemed a positive way to discuss those concerns.听

鈥淭he event was successful in accelerating action to prevent, reducing the harm of poverty in the conurbation and allowed many people to share their experiences.鈥�

Representatives from local authorities, community and faith groups as well as residents and businesses attended a series of workshops designed to help everyone work together to address issues caused by living in poverty.

鈥淭he event was successful in accelerating action to prevent, reducing the harm of poverty in the conurbation and allowed many people to share their experiences.鈥�

BU's 2015 Festival of Learning is running from 11-17 July, with over 150 free events and activities - including The Hunger Games: Let's Win Together (Thursday 16 July, 6.30pm - 8.30pm) which explores local schemes to tackle food poverty. To find out more, and book free tickets, visit the
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