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Building connections, breaking chains, and making food banks history

With Emma Revie, CEO of the Trussell Trust, and Val McKie, a Trussell Trust lived experience partner.

Monday 1 July, 6.45pm
Pearl Suite, Royal Armouries, Leeds LS10 1LT – and online

The lecture will be held as part of the Methodist Conference, but is open to everyone. You can choose to join us in person or watch a livestream online. A recording will also be available on this web page afterwards.

It is free to attend.

Churches play a major part in the Trussell Trust’s network of food banks across the UK. In this lecture we will explore what it might look like for Christians to contribute to building a future without the need for food banks, together with others. In doing so, we will ask what chains of injustice need to be broken, what connections and relationships need to be nurtured, and whose voices we need to hear more of.

Those attending the lecture in person will also be able to view the powerful Dreams and Realities portrait exhibition which is touring the UK as part of the Let’s End Poverty campaign. Artist Stephen Martin has painted acrylic portraits of nine people living in poverty in Sheffield, including himself. Each picture shows the person, something that depicts their economic reality, and something that represents the dreams and ambitions they would pursue if they were not held back by poverty and unjust systems.

For more information and to book your FREE place, click  here.