“Poverty: It’s everyone’s business”

10:30 Registration and Refreshments

• exhibition displays provided by stakeholders and NGOs, posters /
pop up banners

11:30 Welcome
• Krishnan Guru-Murthy (host)
• The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor of Bristol, Councillor
Christopher Davies

11.40 Address
• Sarah Lambert, UK Head of Representation for the EU

11:45 Session One – Myth busting / Raising awareness / Attitudes of media

and the public
Debate with expert panel:
• Adam Sharples, Employment Group Director-General, DWP
• Kate Wareing, Programme Director, Oxfam UK
• Parminder Bahra, Journalist (previously written for The Times and
The Sunday Times)

12:40 Lunch and exhibition

• Extended lunch to allow for socialising / restful lunch / childcare

13:40 Session Two – Poverty issues discussed – focussing four themes, each
introduced by two minute monologues with expert panel members:
• Sue Cohen, Director, Single Parent Action Network (Child Poverty)
• Maeve McGoldrick, Campaigns Coordinator, Community Links UK
(Working Age Poverty)
• Sally West, Age UK TBC (Older People’s Poverty)
• June Burrough, Founder and Director, The Pierian Centre, Bristol
(Disadvantaged Groups Poverty – ex-offenders, homeless, disabled)

14.50 Session Three - Lasting legacy / Solutions

• Introduced by Angela Eagle MP, Minister of State for Pensions and
Ageing Society
• Kate Wareing, Programme Director, Oxfam UK
• Parminder Bahra, Journalist

15:20 Final thoughts and summing up

• led by Krishnan Guru-Murthy

15.30 Close