A new interview has shed light on the harsh realities facing thousands of working families, highlighting how low wages, rising living costs and unaffordable credit continue to trap people in financial hardship.

A new partnership between Money Advice South Tyneside (MAST) and Communities Together Durham (CTD) is set to provide vital money advice and debt support.

Let’s work together.

As a Trustee with Communities Together Durham, you would help to guide our work in supporting local churches, empowering communities, and delivering projects that create real change.

Over 100 people gathered on Saturday 14 March to consider how we move ‘Beyond Foodbanks.’  The summit, jointly organised by Communities Together Durham and Food Durham brought together over 30 different organisations from across the North East.

A debt advice service founded by a parish, working in partnership with a Church of England diocese, community groups, churches and local authorities, has marked a ‘shocking’ milestone of having helped people manage more than £1 million of debt.

Our project exists to offer a warm welcome and practical support to asylum seekers and refugees who have recently arrived in the Durham and Northeast areas.

Foodbanks have become a vital lifeline for 1000s of households, offering emergency help for people in crisis. We look at what it means to go ‘beyond foodbanks’.

A vibrant new chapter of community spirit and creativity has started in Murton with the launch of the MPower Choir, hosted at the Heart on the Terrace, Murton.