By Will Horwitz
A year or so ago I was travelling around the country interviewing people to feature in an Oxfam report looking at the vital and overlooked contributions people on low incomes make to society (I was so impressed by one of my visits, to Community Links, that I soon applied for a job here).
It has finally made its way to publication, and is well worth a read. As I’ve said in a blog post for Oxfam, it takes on the myth that low income equals low contribution, that benefit claimant equals scrounger. It shows that the Big Society is flourishing in some of the poorest communities, something we know to our advantage at Community Links. In the last three years we have benefited from 82,000 hours of volunteering, most of it from local residents.
