Who we are

Thrive Teesside is an award-winning organisation working in Teesside, advocating for the voice of lived experience to be included in decision-making processes.

We do this through research, tailored one-to-one support and taking local action: bringing together local people and institutions. We have three paid members of staff, a group of dedicated volunteers and a Board of Trustees. Thrive has been able to get the voice of people in poverty to those in power in a way no other grassroots organisation in Teesside has.

Many organisations have spokespeople, support workers, advisors and CEOs speaking for their service users, but Thrive, sticking to our principle of “never do for others what they can do for themselves”, has people with direct experience of poverty and financial and social exclusion regularly changing their community and speaking out.

Hartlepool Poverty Truth Commission: The Official Launch Event

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Scum: A short film by Thriving Women/Tees Women’s Poets

North East churches & communities gather to tackle poverty together.

From Church Action on Poverty’s website.

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Thriving Women

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Voices of Hartlepool

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Hartlepool PTC

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NEXUS Short Film

Nexus is a short film about the impact of COVID-19 on young people’s mental health, eating-related coping strategies, and the power of connection.

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Poverty2Solutions

Through the eyes and values of lived experiences: Listen up to level up.

Using their voices, members of Poverty2Solutions highlight their dedication to ending the issues that keep people trapped in poverty. This film also highlights the importance and value of involving lived experiences in the conversations around shaping effective policy and creating systemic change that can help build a fairer society.

Growing Rights Instead of Poverty Partnership (GRIPP) is working together to end poverty across the nations and regions of the UK.

GRIPP is made up of a number of individuals, projects and organisations from across the nations and regions of the UK who endeavour to take a human rights-based approach.

https://gripp.org.uk

We have three paid members of staff

Tracey Herrington

Manager

Leading and co-ordinating on Thrive's local and national work including Poverty2Solutions, the APLE Collective and developing Hartlepool's Poverty Truth Commission.

Corrina Eastwood

Community Organiser

Engaging and working with the community to create opportunities whereby people with lived experience of poverty can influence decisions that can lead to positive change. I am also APLE Collective's lived experience coordinator!

Dylan Eastwood

Media and Communications Officer

Responsible for creating, distributing, and managing Thrive's online presence in order to meaningfully voice those with lived experiences of poverty.

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Get in Touch

To get in touch and book an appointment, call us on 
64 Somerset Rd, Norton, Stockton-on-Tees TS20 2ND. 
We have an open door policy on Mondays and Tuesdays from 9 am-4 pm weekly. 
The rest of the week is by appointment only.

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