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Text reads: The First Minister must act to make polluters pay

14 Mar 2024

Biggest and better off polluters must pay the climate bill
Margaret Chiwanza

8 Mar 2024

We must support this forgotten group of carers
Carmen Martinez, Coordinator of the Scottish Women’s Budget Group

7 Mar 2024

Childcare driving women into poverty
First edition copies of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems

5 Mar 2024

Mystery Donor’s Manuscripts Make Monumental Mark with Record-Breaking Charity Sale
Nyatoni Row is a 35 years old mother of four who fled South Sudan due to conflicts and is now a refugee in the Gambella Region in western Ethiopia.

2 Mar 2024

Oxfam welcomes Scottish Government funds for ‘forgotten’ refugee crisis
Weighing scales, with the hashtag #TimeToTax

27 Feb 2024

Scottish Budget’s approach to tax an ‘alarmingly muddled misstep and fundamentally flawed’
Illustration of woman holding sign saying People and Planet over profit

19 Feb 2024

People and planet must be put before politics and profit

8 Feb 2024

Rare Scottish record set to strike charitable chord
Image of smoking chimneys with text layered over and behind saying it's time to make polluters pay for the climate crisis

1 Feb 2024

Scottish party leaders must together use powers to build a fairer, greener Scotland
An alarm clock. Text reads 'We can't press snooze on common sense tax reforms to help deliver a fairer and greener Scotland'

31 Jan 2024

Ministers can’t press snooze on common sense, fair tax reforms
Text reads 'In the last three years the worlds richest men became twice as rich.'

15 Jan 2024

Humanity is even further divided. A new wealth tax is a must
Scottish Parliament building with blue sky

19 Dec 2023

Sobering Scottish Budget falls short of fundamental fair tax reforms required