The Growing Poverty of Debt

In this Podcast we talk to Melanie Smith about the new Enfield Debt Churches Centre just about to be launched. There are something like 6 million people in debt in the UK and the average debt per adult is almost £32,000.

Covid has increased the burden of personal debt and as the ravages of climate change impact on us in this coming century then it can only get worse.

So Melanie together with a number of Churches in Enfield have got together to help tackle the problem of debt and they will be working with other organisations to help as well. They want to help families tackle debt, provide advice and support and also tackle some of the structural problems that make debt such a huge problem.

They have also been talking to Feryal Clark MP about a covid-debt cancellation initiative and how this maybe taken forward.