Poverty costs Wales £3.6 billion every year!
23% of Wales’ population, 700,000 people, are
struggling to make ends meet*.
They are the stark, yet realistic, headlines of a recent piece of research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Bevan Foundation.
Elsewhere, the Communities First anti-poverty programme
is facing an uncertain future.
Here, at the Wales Co-operative Centre, we help to reduce poverty,
and empower communities, to improve life chances across
our portfolio of work.
Over the next two weeks, our fourth annual Tackling Poverty Fortnight campaign will highlight different areas of our work, the businesses and organisations that we support and the people who are the end beneficiaries of that work.
We will look at housing, childcare, social care, financial and digital inclusion, and how social businesses are providing opportunities
through employment and training.
A major part of the campaign will be a series of blog posts, posted on our everyonesbusiness.coop site, that you can comment on.
You can also follow the campaign on Twitter @WalesCoopCentre and
through the hashtag #PovertyInWales.
We’re keen to hear from you, to get your thoughts on what more
can be done to reduce poverty in Wales,
particularly through working co-operatively.
*Department for Work and Pensions (2016) Households Below Average Income, 2014/15 Table 3.17ts
Mae tlodi’n costio £3.6 biliwn i Gymru bob blwyddyn!
Mae 23% o boblogaeth Cymru, 700,000 o bobl, yn ei chael hi’n anodd
cadw dau ben llinyn ynghyd*.
Dyma benawdau llwm, ond realistig, ymchwil diweddar gan
Sefydliad Joseph Rowntree a Sefydliad Bevan.
Mewn mannau eraill, mae rhaglen wrthdlodi Cymunedau yn Gyntaf,
yn wynebu dyfodol ansicr.
Yma, yng Nghanolfan Cydweithredol Cymru, rydym ni’n helpu i leihau tlodi a grymuso cymunedau i wella posibiliadau bywyd ar draws ein portffolio gwaith.
Dros y bythefnos nesaf, bydd ein pedwerydd ymgyrch blynyddol Pythefnos Trechu Tlodi, yn amlygu ein meysydd gwaith gwahanol, y busnesau a’r sefydliadau rydym yn eu cynorthwyo, a’r bobl a fydd yn fuddiolwyr y gwaith hwnnw yn y pen draw.
Byddwn yn ystyried tai, gofal plant, gofal cymdeithasol, cynhwysiant ariannol a digidol, a sut mae busnesau cymdeithasol yn darparu cyfleoedd trwy gyflogaeth a hyfforddiant.
Un o brif rannau’r ymgyrch fydd cyfres o negeseuon blog, a fydd yn cael eu gosod ar ein safle busnesibawb.coop, y gallwch wneud sylwadau arnynt. Hefyd, gallwch ddilyn yr ymgyrch ar Twitter @WalesCoopCentre a thrwy’r hashnod #TlodiyngNghymru.
Rydym yn awyddus i glywed gennych, i gael eich safbwyntiau ynghylch beth arall y gellir ei wneud i leihau tlodi yng Nghymru, yn enwedig trwy gydweithio.
*Yr Adran Gwaith a Phensiynau (2016) Cartrefi Islaw’r Incwm Cyfartalog, 2014/15 Tabl 3.17ts
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