Understanding Poverty in Place: Where Data Meets Community

This webinar will unpack what we’ve learned from working in one of the most deprived areas  in England, and what it reveals about how power, policy, and lived experience shape local realities. 

Drawing on the stories captured in Poverty, Place and Power in Northumberland and From Food Banks to Football Stadiums: Where Data Meets Reality in Northumberland Park, and our final report, the session will explore:

• How national narratives about poverty compare with what residents experience locally
• What the data tells us — and what it misses — about community resilience and exclusion
• How local voices and assets can help redesign systems that too often fail the people they’re meant to serve

This has been a collaboration between Residents in Northumberland Park, Just Knowledge, Roots & Rigour, North London Partnership Consortium and Place Matters, and was funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation. 

Speakers will include local residents and representatives from the collaboration talking about how “data democracy” can enable civil society, philanthropy and government to think differently about what tackling poverty really means in place. But perhaps most importantly, how it can empower residents.