Mon 6 - Sun 12 October 2025
About Challenge Poverty Week
The first Challenge Poverty Week was launched by the Poverty Alliance in 2013.
We wanted to highlight the injustice of poverty in Scotland, and to show that collective action based on justice and compassion can create solutions.
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Resources from CPW 2024
Daily Themes from CPW 2024
Blogs & briefings from CPW 2024
Guest Blog: We can invest in homes for a better Scotland
Ewan Aitken, Chief Executive,Cyrenians As part of Challenge Poverty Week 2023, Cyrenians supports the call for a Scotland where we all have safe, secure and sustainable homes. Ewan Aitken, Chief Executive of Cyrenians, explains why urgent action is needed to respond to the housing crisis. Homelessness in Scotland has gone up by 10% in the … Read more
Guest blog: Homelessness causes poverty and poverty causes homelessness
Neil Cowan, Head of Policy & CommunicationsCrisis in Scotland When Crisis made the decision to join the Poverty Alliance last year, it was because of our belief that housing, homelessness and poverty are inseparable. Homelessness causes poverty and poverty causes homelessness. The evidence on this is clear, and we know that child poverty is the … Read more
Blog: 10 years of Challenge Poverty Week
Peter Kelly, Director,Poverty Alliance It is now 10 years since the Poverty Alliance brought together a group of our members to begin planning the first Challenge Poverty Week. Many of the concerns that brought us together in 2013 are, unfortunately, still with us now. Scotland, then as now, is a wealthy country, but still far … Read more
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