Free Poverty Proofing training
January 22, 2026
The wonderful team at Children NE have designed a bespoke course for North Cumbria to help teams and organisations identify and alleviate poverty-related barriers to healthcare access.
It is a fantastic opportunity to make a real difference to people in our community who will experience worse health and poorer access to help because of persistent systemic inequalities. It isn’t something of the past or of elsewhere – it is real, relevant and right here. Poverty is place based, meaning that it causes challenges particular to geographical and demographic area. This means that the rurality and low population density of Cumbria presents it’s own specific barriers that this training can help us identify.
The training is funded for North Cumbria NHS area, but if your team is Cumbria-wide or delivers in any of the North Cumbria/Cumberland areas please do book on. It is designed for anyone who has a role in helping/supporting people to navigate healthcare, access support or overcome healthcare challenges. With one in eight people in Cumbria living on less than £10,000 a year and one in ten experiencing fuel poverty, it’s highly likely that, whether we realize it or not, we come into contact with people facing serious financial hardship every day.
This vital training would be ideally suited to link workers employed in primary care or the local authority or any of the VCFSE roles which formally and informally are so often a lifeline for people at times of their greatest need.
The three-hour Poverty Proofing © training will help you to:
- Understand what ‘poverty’ is as both a concept and a lived reality
- Look beyond just the financial implications and see how a lifetime of disadvantage can impact people’s opportunities and even alter physiology
- Examine examples of barriers and have some discussion on what barriers you see in your own practice
- Learn how stigma and unconscious bias throws up an additional set of barriers- and how you can help dismantle this
- Formulate practical steps on how you can as an individual con contribute to improved systemic and societal healthy equity
Previous attendees have said:
“I found the first session to be informative & thought provoking around the affects & effects on lives of poverty here in Cumbria! Cumbria needs this learning so badly to move forward together.”
To find out more about this event and to book on:
click here for 10th March 2026 session
click here for 26th March 2026 session
