London-based artist and activist Virginia Nimarkoh speaks of her brainchild, Lambeth Larder, her fight against food poverty and her love for Brixton
With a soaring number of low-income families in relative poverty, Norway’s food banks are offering respite to their people and…
Big Sleep Out: 'It's a mandate for action'
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More than 100 million people around the world have no place to call home. The World’s Big Sleep Out aims to make a difference.
Cairo's treasure of trash
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We visit ‘Garbage City’ in Cairo where family businesses which recycle trash have created a huge community.
Director of Islington Law Centre resigns raising concerns of an unchanging ‘poverty trap’.
The deepening dilemma over food banks
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Artefact investigates how important food banks have become and how the number of people in poverty is growing rapidly.
Not just a country of drug-runners
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Culture shock: A journey into the contrasts of poverty and insecurity, hospitality and kindness, two sides of the same coin.
How effective are effective altruists?
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Effective altruism has been dubbed the crossroads between charity and rationality, but just how effective are effective altruists really?
Where poverty lives at the seaside
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In this documentary Artefact explores the small seaside town of Harwich to uncover one of Britain’s hidden poverty issues.
Where poverty lives at the seaside
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We visit the Essex town of Harwich which, after the shipping boom of the past, is now a potent example of poverty in modern Britain.