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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

During COVID, I co-produced a film exploring the impact lockdown had on young people’s mental health. Last week I attended the screening and panel, speaking about digital poverty, deprivation, mental health and socio-economic disadvantage. Proud to represent Hartlepool & Stockton-on-Tees 💙

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A great afternoon in our community garden with Sycamore Gardening 🌱 Matthew checked our soil, gave us growing advice, and the kids made bird fat balls to take home 🐦 We also planted more community-donated flowers and plants 🌸

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Positive Money UK @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Everyone should have access to the foundations for a decent life: housing, food, health, and social security. Very proud to sign this letter from @justfairuk.bsky.social calling on the UK govt to fulfil a promise it made 50 years ago. Let's make these rights real. #ICESCR50

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

🚨 Breaking: 76 civil society orgs have written to the UK Gov calling for economic, social & cultural rights to be recognised. 50 years ago today, the UK ratified #ICESCR50 and promised rights including housing, food & health. That promise remains unfulfilled. Read 👇 justfair.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

This #IDEP2025, we’re spotlighting Ghosts, a powerful new anthology by Thriving Women. It explores poverty, inequality & systemic injustice, giving voice to stories often overlooked. Watch their visual poem here: youtu.be/MBuNSJ1EvEc

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Ghosts by Thriving Women

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Join @local.gov.uk, #1forEquality and more to explore the Socio-Economic Duty & putting poverty at the heart of policy. 🗓 Oct 9 | ⏰ 2 PM GMT+1 | 💻 Free Featuring our very own Tracey Herrington on engaging lived experience. @poverty2solutions.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/getting-re...

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Tracey has travelled to London as part of our Welfare Experiences research- “Full day of discussions to progress the Welfare Experiences research. Five countries coming together to discuss the findings of their respective conversations with people accessing welfare support.”

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Things are starting to bloom in our West View garden, #EcoClub have been enjoying the warmer days in the garden preparing the beds for planting🌱🪴

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Support for home-educated children in Hartlepool is limited. Families face financial barriers and lack access to essential resources. This needs to change. Read our full statement below. ⬇️ #EducationForAll #HomeEducation

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

"Did we change things? I don’t know. Will we make a difference? I’m not sure." Read @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social's powerful blog on taking lived experience to the UN for the CESCR 7th Review of the UK: 🔗 shorturl.at/RbVEX @grippuk.bsky.social

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Thrive Teesside @thriveteesside.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Screen printing with the Poverty2Solutions team today, brand new designs in preparation for our launch event coming up #DoYourDutyForEquality

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Diana Skelton @dianaskelton.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Preparing for a Poverty2Solutions event!

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The absence of lived experience voices, systems creating constant fear, a government intent on divide & conquer tactics - the issues we just raised with members of #CESCR2025 committee Watch our 3 speeches here: @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social

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The Original Mandyque @therealmandyque.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

So proud of our sisters from @thriveteesside.bsky.social and their collaborators from @grippuk.bsky.social for speaking on our behalfs at #CESCR2025 at the UN in Geneva. Lived experience accounts need to be heard to tackle #poverty #discrimination and #injustice in the UK and worldwide

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Amanda from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social shares her reflections on the first day at #CESCR2005 with @raparuk.bsky.social @thriveteesside.bsky.social. Feeling positive that the Committee is listening to lived experience knowledge but frustrated with the govt's usual... youtube.com/shorts/aQZ3p...

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GRIPP @ #CESCR2005 - Amanda shares her reflections on the first day at the UN

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Ready and waiting for the meeting between NGOs and #OHCHR organised by @hrw.org No time for lunch so eating left over breakfast from the hotel!! #CESCR2025 @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd4thworld.bsky.social

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

@thriveteesside.bsky.social - always facing forward, leaving no one behind. On the way to Geneva #CESCR2005 review with @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social

Photo of Tracey, taken from behind her, short black hair, green coat, colourful scarf. She is sat on an empty bus with the views of Paris streets through the windows

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Quote of the day from Amanda, from @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social & founding member of GRIPP: "Hope the committee listen and are prepared to have meaningful conversations that lead to change" Travelling to Geneva for the #CESCR2025 review with @raparuk.bsky.social and @thriveteesside.bsky.social

Amanda, in dark blue coat, sits with Julie, with her long ginger, dreadlocks on a train

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

A big day ahead for @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social and @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social at #CESCR2025 talking about value of lived experience, fears associated with social security system and the instrumental use of divide and conquer in our communities. youtube.com/shorts/vZ15H...

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GRIPP at #CESCR2025 - Day 3

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"800 miles away from Teesside, a million miles away from our lived reality but we do have a right to be here, a right to have our say" at #CESCR2025 @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social youtube.com/shorts/e_l3e...

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GRIPP @ #CESCR2025 - Entering Palais des Nations

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Our @julieeasleypoet.bsky.social from @thriveteesside.bsky.social contemplating the days ahead as she travels to #CESCR2025 review in Geneva

Julie, wearing sunglasses, a Palestinian scarf, black t-shirt and gorgeous ginger dreadlocks, stares out of a train window. The blue sky and blurred greed trees are seen through her reflection and she has a gentle smile

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

🚨 From Teesside to Geneva 🚨 Tracey from @thriveteesside.bsky.social shares why she’s taking the voices of Teesside—an area once rich in industry & heritage, now worn down by harsh policies—to the United Nations in Geneva. People here deserve to be heard. Watch part 1 🎥👇

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Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership @grippuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This week we are taking our communities' voices to the UN #CESCR2025 with powerful testimony about the living/ed experience of poverty in the UK Read the submission from GRIPP partners @thriveteesside.bsky.social @raparuk.bsky.social & @atd-fourthworld-uk.bsky.social gripp.org.uk/2025/02/10/t...

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Taking our voice to the UN - again! - gripp.org.uk

By GRIPP’s ICESCR team GRIPP has submitted our second submission to the UN’s Committee on...

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Just Fair @justfairuk.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

This week the UN Committee on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights will be reviewing the UK to assess how well our everyday rights are protected here at home. This review takes place every 5-7 years and is significant opportunity to shine a spotlight on our broken system. 🧵A thread #CESCR2025 1/6

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