February newsletter – new director, new project, new connections!

February newsletter – new director, new project, new connections!

Dear friends and followers,It has been a busy start of the year, focusing on organisational development as well as our new project, coordinating a network of citizen auditors. More on our work below. On the organisational side we have some exciting news as in January, we welcomed a new director to Research for Action: Tim Joubert. Tim is doing a PhD at the University of Leeds on radical municipalism in the Greater London Council of the 1980s, and his interests are in social movements, urban contestation and radical history among others. He teaches urban geography at Leeds Beckett University and... [continues]
July newsletter: festivals, council accounts & credit card cost cap

July newsletter: festivals, council accounts & credit card cost cap

Welcome to our July newsletter. Summer means picnics and barbeques, workshops at festivals and inspection of accounts (doesn’t it?). Here are our news for the month! NEWS Why we need a cap on credit card costs The End the Debt Trap campaign published a report on regulating the credit card market with a launch event in Parliament on 9 July. We are part of a coalition of organisations campaigning to cap the costs of all consumer credit so no one would have to pay back more in fees and interest than they originally borrowed. A cap was put in place... [continues]