Our quarterly meetings are held around the UK and include keynote speakers, workshops and a range of networking and professional development opportunities. Here are details of the next NAWRA meeting: Date: Friday 8 September 2017 Time: 10am – 4pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: City Chambers, 253 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1YJ The meeting is kindly hosted by the City of Edinburgh Council. Download the agenda here.

Earlier this year, NAWRA submitted evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee’s inquiry on Universal Credit. In August 2017, the Committee ask for an update to our original submission. Read our submission Thanks to Daphne Hall (rightsnet) and all the members who contributed with comments.

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  

UBIE event 24th–26th March 2017, London Here, our North Wales committee representative, Eri Mountbatten, provides a summary of the Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) weekend held in London on 24th – 26th March 2017.   Eri asks, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) a utopian exercise in socialist Sympatico, or can it bring real and meaningful alternatives to the current debates on social security and social justice in the UK? The Europeans are coming!.. I am not talking about another wave of …

Fish, chips and mushy politics!? Read more »