CAMPAIGN group End Poverty Edinburgh has thrown its weight behind this month’s Scotland Demands Better march on Holyrood.

Fresh from its own Challenge Poverty Week event, which brought organisations including Edinburgh Tenants Federation and Community Renewal Trust together to hear from people with lived experience of poverty, the group is urging mass participation for the march on Saturday October 25.

Led by the STUC and the Poverty Alliance and already backed by a host of organisations, Scotland Demands Better aims to unite campaigns ranging from calls for sectoral collective bargaining and investment in public services, to better social security, on the doorstep of Parliament.

Linda Craik from End Poverty Edinburgh said: “Far too many people across the city are struggling and it is affecting their day-to-day lives as well long-term life chances. 

“People deserve and need better than a society that normalises poverty and accepts so many of our citizens struggling every day just to make ends meet. 

“That’s why Scotland is demanding better than this and that’s why I would encourage people to get along to the Scotland Demands Better march.”