Poverty and Homeless Action Conference - Cut’s, from Rhetoric to Reality

Venue: The Quaker Meeting House, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BT

Come along to this FREE event and debate the issues! No need to book
For more information contact: Nugent Care 0151 261 2000

To be Chaired by:

• Roger Phillips, BBC Radio Merseyside
• The Rt Worshipful, The Lord Mayor of Liverpool Cllr Frank Prendergast
• Kathy Pitt, Chief Executive of Nugent Care - Closing remarks
   

Key note Speakers:

Luciana Berger MP
Luciana was thrilled and honoured to be elected as the MP for Wavertree. She pledged to campaign on good quality homes and to work to end the scandal of boarded up houses. On the 11th October 2010, she was delighted to have been appointed Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change.

Niall Cooper
Niall Cooper has been National Coordinator of Church Action on Poverty since 1997, and has been responsible for piloting a number of new approaches to anti-poverty work in the UK, drawing on international development experience, as well as running high profile campaigns on poverty, debt and asylum-related issues.
 

Alison Gelder
Alison Gelder became Chief Executive of Housing Justice (formerly the Catholic Housing Aid
Society) in 2006. Educated at West Kirby Grammar School for Girls, she received a Law
degree from the University of Warwick. After university Alison spent several years in senior
management at British Telecom. She went back to university in Cambridge to study theology
and research business ethics, and then worked as a social researcher specialising in
church-based social action before joining Housing Justice as Director of External Affairs in 2003.

Louise Ellman MP
Louise Ellman has been Labour/Co-operative MP for Liverpool Riverside since 1997 and
was previously the Leader of Lancashire County Council (1981 - 1997). Before becoming
involved in full-time politics, she lectured in Social Policy in Further Education and on
the Open University. During her time as Leader, Louise pioneered public-private sector partnerships, setting up the county’s economic development agency Lancashire Enterprises in 1992. Three years ago, she was appointed Chair of the House of Commons Select Committee on Transport and she is a keen supporter of Liverpool’s regeneration.