By Bridie Ashrowan (Chief Executive, EVOC)
Ahead of the First Minister’s Anti-Poverty Summit today, EVOC were part of a Members Meeting last week to input on behalf the communities of Edinburgh and I hope our input, collated with the thoughts of the Poverty Alliance network, helped shape the event and this briefing. It outlines the actions that EVOC and the Alliance membership think should be prioritised to tackle poverty in Scotland; the support that is required for the third sector; and the key outcomes that should emerge from the First Minister’s anti-poverty summit.
How do Poverty and Community Wealth Building (CWB) relate? At EVOC, we have advocated for a place-based approach to be part of the approach to poverty. To support that place-based approach is inclusive and ambitious, and the reason we see Community Wealth Building as part of it is with the evidence that has come from places such as Preston – the most improved city the UK, lifting people out of poverty, as measured by the university there.