End Child Poverty coalition was set up in 2001 by a group of UK children's charities, social justice groups, faith-groups, trade unions and others concerned about what they considered the unacceptably high levels of child poverty in the UK.

It was established as a charity in 2003 with a single goal - to eradicate child poverty in the United Kingdom.

Objects

• Inform the public about the causes and effects of child poverty
• Forge a commitment between and across the public, private and voluntary sectors to end child poverty by 2020
• Promote the case for ending child poverty by 2020 with this and every future Government.

Activities

The coalition involves children, young people and parents with experience of poverty and others in a wide range of activities, such as a children's poetry anthology, a children Queen's speech and in lobbying the Chancellor and Government Ministers. The coalition has also organised cross-sector events such as the National Poverty Hearing, held on Wednesday 6 December 2006 working with Church Action on Poverty

Church Action on Poverty

Church Action on Poverty is a UK-based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the United Kingdom. CAP works in partnership with churches and with people in poverty themselves to find solutions to poverty, locally, nationally and globally.CAP was...

, Age Concern

Age Concern

Age Concern was the banner title used by a number of charitable organisations specifically concerned with the needs and interests of all older people based chiefly in the four countries of the United Kingdom....

, Help the Aged

Help the Aged

Help the Aged was a United Kingdom based, international charity, founded in 1961 by Cecil Jackson-Cole, to free disadvantaged older people from poverty, isolation and neglect. It merged with Age Concern in 2009 to form Age UK.-Organisation and campaigns:...

, Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is a British social policy research and development charity, that funds a UK-wide research and development programme. It seeks to understand the root causes of social problems, to identify ways of overcoming them, and to show how social needs can be met in practice...

, Oxfam

Oxfam

Oxfam is an international confederation of 15 organizations working in 98 countries worldwide to find lasting solutions to poverty and related injustice around the world. In all Oxfam’s actions, the ultimate goal is to enable people to exercise their rights and manage their own lives...

, Poverty Alliance, Refugee Council

Refugee Council

The Refugee Council is the United Kingdom's leading organisation working with refugees and asylum seekers. The organisation provides support and advice to refugees and asylum seekers, as well as support for other refugee and asylum seeker organisations...

, Shelter

Shelter (charity)

Shelter is a registered charity in England and Scotland that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people in need, and tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies to improve the...

 and the UK Coalition Against Poverty. The event engaged senior politicians, policy makers and opinion formers in the media and public life and grassroots anti-poverty/civil society groups from across the United Kingdom.

From the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty on October 17 until Universal Children’s Day on November 20 End Child Poverty led a Month of Action to call attention to the millions of children in poverty and demand action; calling on the Government to place child poverty firmly at the centre of their agenda and asking the chancellor to ‘play ball!’ to deliver, in the Comprehensive Spending Review, the resources needed to end child poverty, once and for all.

Funding members

Major funding members include: Barnardo's

Barnardo's

Barnardo's is a British charity founded by Thomas John Barnardo in 1866, to care for vulnerable children and young people. As of 2010, it spends over £190 million each year on more than 400 local services aimed at helping these same groups...

, The Children's Society

The Children's Society

The Children's Society, formally The Church of England Children's Society, is a UK charity allied to the Church of England and driven by a belief that all children deserve a good childhood.-History:...

, Action for Children, NSPCC

NSPCC

The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children is a United Kingdom charity campaigning and working in child protection.-History:...

, and Save the Children

Save the Children

Save the Children is an internationally active non-governmental organization that enforces children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries...

. Other members include The Church of England, Caritas, the Citizens Advice Bureau

Citizens Advice Bureau

A Citizens Advice Bureau is one of a network of independent charities throughout the UK that give free, confidential information and advice to help people with their money, legal, consumer and other problems....

, Coram

Thomas Coram Foundation for Children

The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children is a large children's charity in London which uses the working name Coram ....

, the Family Holiday Association

Family Holiday Association

The Family Holiday Association is a United Kingdom charity that promotes access to breaks away from home for families who miss out on even the simplest of holidays due to poverty...

, Liberal Judaism

Liberal Judaism

Liberal Judaism , is one of the two forms of Progressive Judaism found in the United Kingdom, the other being Reform Judaism. Liberal Judaism, which developed at the beginning of the twentieth century is less conservative than UK Reform Judaism...

, Mencap

Mencap

The Royal Mencap Society is a charity based in the UK that works with people with a learning disability.-Profile:Mencap is the UK's leading learning disability charity working with people with a learning disability and their families and carers...

, the National Union of Students, the National Youth Agency

National Youth Agency

The National Youth Agency is an educational charity in England that works in partnership with a wide range of public, private and voluntary sector organisations to support and improve services for young people....

, the National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

National Council for Voluntary Youth Services

The National Council for Voluntary Youth Services is a membership network of around 170 voluntary and community organisations, as well as local and regional networks, who work with young people and operate in England...

, Oxfam UK, Rathbone

Rathbone (charity)

Rathbone is a charitable organization in the United Kingdom. It educates and trains children, young people and adults in its own training centres and residential projects.Rathbone was created out of The Rathbone Society, founded by Elfrida Rathbone...

, Scope

Scope

The word scope may refer to many different devices or viewing instruments, constructed for many different purposes. It may refer to a telescopic sight, an optical device commonly used on firearms. Other uses of scope or Scopes may refer to:...

 and Shelter

Shelter (charity)

Shelter is a registered charity in England and Scotland that campaigns to end homelessness and bad housing. It gives advice, information and advocacy to people in need, and tackles the root causes of bad housing by lobbying government and local authorities for new laws and policies to improve the...

.

News coverage

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3478443.stm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1924378,00.html

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article1886643.ece

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk./Newsroom_and_Speeches/Press/2001/press_50_01.cfm

Website

End Child Poverty coalition