Event title
- Understanding Poverty in Place: Where Data Meets Community
Location
Date
- Thursday 20 November 2025, 12:00-13:30
Event details
This webinar will explore reflections and learning from engaging communities in data that have a direct impact on their lives.
The webinar will unpack the lessons learnt from working in one of the most deprived areas in England.
Discussion will reveal how power, policy, and lived experience shape local realities.
Drawing on stories from real-world examples, the session will explore:
- how national narratives about poverty compare with what residents experience locally;
- what the data tell us — and what they miss — about community resilience and exclusion; and
- how local voices and assets can help redesign systems that too often fail the people they are meant to serve.
The work discussed in this webinar originates from a collaboration between Residents in Northumberland Park, Just Knowledge, Roots & Rigour, North London Partnership Consortium, and Place Matters, and was funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Speakers will include local residents and representatives from the collaboration talking about how 'data democracy' can enable civil society, philanthropy, and government to think differently about what tackling poverty really means in place.
Most importantly, discussion will reveal how local residents and other place stakeholders can be empowered to harness the power of 'data democracy'.
Interested participants can register to attend the webinar via Understnading Poverty in Place: Where Data Meets Community.
Convened by Place Matters.