Quaker Social Action wins award
News of an award-winning Quaker charity
A Quaker charity has received an award from a national thinktank for its work tackling poverty. Quaker Social Action (QSA), which works in east London, won the prize for their ‘Made of Money’ scheme, which aims to help people to manage financial problems.
The award, which comes with £10,000 worth of funding, was given by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ). Only seven out of four hundred charities received a CSJ award this year.
QSA say that the scheme rejects the approach of ‘telling people how to manage their money’. They say that instead their work ‘helps both parents and children to communicate better around money issues and works through day-to-day issues like budgeting, debt and banking’.
They add: ‘As well as practical advice, our workshops deal with the attitudes and values that shape peoples’ relationship to money’.
The Centre for Social Justice was founded by Conservative MP Iain Duncan-Smith and is backed by politicians on the right of the Labour Party, including John Reid and Frank Field.
QSA director Judith Moran said she was ‘delighted’ that the award was sponsored by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, which she described as ‘an organisation that speaks truth to power’.
