Poverty and social exclusion This site is produced by the New Policy Institute, backed by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. They highlight the main causes and areas of poverty in the UK. Helpful statistics, but you have to search a bit to find what you want.
Child Poverty Action Group CPAG is the leading charity campaigning for the abolition of poverty among children and young people in the UK and for the improvement of the lives of low-income families.
Caritas Social Action UK Caritas – social action, the voice of the Catholic Church on social justice and care in England and Wales.
Crisis A homeless charity focussing on hidden homelessness, working to help single homeless people. Its mission is to help marginalised and homelessness people.
Supporting Organisations
Christian Aid "An agency of the churches in the UK and Ireland, Christian Aid works wherever the need is greatest, irrespective of religion." Part of Christian Aid's description of its work.
Cafod Catholic Agency for Overseas Development. "CAFOD shares in the Catholic Church's tasks of proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God, bearing witness to love, truth and justice and building bridges of hope with the poor."
Traidcraft Traidcraft fights poverty through fair trading.
Caritas Internationalis Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.
Tearfund Christian action with the world's poor.
World Health Organisation This is a very large website and it contains a lot of useful inforfmation. Search carefully.
Religious views of poverty and wealth
Biblical teaching
Bible texts Passages in the Old Testament and New Testament relevant to this topic.
How some Christians have used their wealth
Dr Barnardo Wikipedia seems quite good on the events of Dr Barnardo's life.
The main advantage of this site is that it is a short.
Timeline of Doctor Barnardo's life This is a bit more detailed, if a trifle dry.
Lord Shaftesbury This documents carefully his work on behalf of children.
Joseph Gurney He was the brother of Elizabeth Fry
and attempted to improve life for the poor and those in prison.
Bible texts Passages in the Old Testament and New Testament relevant to this topic.
Salvation Army A christian denomination that places great emphasis on helping those in need.
Crisis Crisis is a national charity for helping single homeless people.
Jackie Pullinger Find out more about the Jackie Pullinger story.