Here are the details of our next meeting : Date:  Friday 9 June 2017 Time:  10am – 4pm (registration from 9.30am) Location:  Catrin Finch Centre, Glyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrexham LL11 2AW The meeting is kindly hosted by Welfare Rights Advice Cymru. Agenda and more information  

NAWRA surveyed its members and used the results to inform our submission to the consultation by the Information Commissioners Office on consent. Thanks to Eri Mountbatten (Aberystwyth University Students’ Union and NAWRA rep for Wales) for collating all the responses and drafting the submission.

Our next meeting will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at Staffordshire University in Stoke on Trent. Agenda Film screening There will be a special, free screening of The Divide at 7.15pm on Thurs 1 Dec. The screening is in room R001 in the Science Centre on Leek Road: The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for a better life in the modern day US and UK – where the top 0.1% owns as much wealth as …

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Sad news from Durham Welfare Rights: Brian McGarr one of our former colleagues has passed away. A lot of people who are new to Welfare Rights won’t know of Brian. It’s probably only the ‘oldies’ who will remember Brian because he wasn’t active in Welfare Rights for many years due to ill health, but he was one of the pioneers of early Welfare Rights. He started as  a community activist in Glasgow, then as a WRO with Strathclyde Regional Council, …

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