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.
Church Action on Poverty Church Action on Poverty is a Manchester based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the UK.
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.
Biblical teaching
Bible texts Passages in the Old Testament and New Testament relevant to this topic.
Supporting Organisations
Make Poverty History This action group has a large website full of useful information and current events.
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.