Gateshead Tackling Poverty Together Summit

6 November 2025, 9.30-3.30pm

Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead Quays, Gateshead, NE8 3BA

Thank you for registering for the Tackling Poverty Together Summit, we are looking forward to seeing you then.

Please find links below to a number of resources/information related to the summit.

Venue

The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is based on Gateshead Quays, a 10-15 minute walk from Gateshead Town Centre. The event will be hosted on Level 1, easily accessible by lift or stairs.

You can find out more about getting to Baltic online including car parking and public transport information. You can also find out about accessibility. 

Find out what to expect on a visit to Baltic with their Visual Story guide - a guide with words and pictures.  

If you have any additional access requirements, and haven't yet let us know, please complete our short form before 5pm on Tuesday 4 November. 

Agenda

We have hopefully designed an interactive and engaging event. Our focus will be on hearing from you and gathering your thoughts, insights and experiences to inform how we will collectively develop and deliver an effective anti-poverty strategy and action plan. 

View the agenda for the event  (PDF, 580 KB)

Pre-reading

We have already undertaken a significant amount of background work to help provide the evidence and insights to shape our strategic approach.  Rather than spend 30 minutes at the summit presenting this to you (we want to focus on listening, not speaking), we ask that attendees take some time to read through/ watch one of the following resources:

• Tackling Poverty Together Phase 1 Summary Report (PDF, 1 MB) - 24 pages - 15 min read 
• Tackling Poverty Together Phase 1 Shorter Summary Report (PDF, 680 KB) - 10 pages - 5-10 min read 
• Tackling Poverty Together Phase 1 Powerpoint presentation with voice over - 10 min watch 
• Tackling Poverty Together Phase 1 Powerpoint presentation (just slides) (PDF, 2 MB) - 5 min read 

Joining the Tackling Poverty Partnership

If your organisation would like to join the Gateshead Tackling Poverty Together Partnership and commit to engaging in the process of developing and delivering the strategy and action plan, you can read the joint statement of intent and sign up online.  

Further reading

Not at all required, but if you are interested in reading/reviewing all the insights and evidence we have gathered thus far, please take a look at the following documents.

• Tackling Poverty Together Phase 1 - Full report (42 pages) (PDF, 2 MB) 
• Gateshead Poverty Data Report (8 pages) (PDF, 706 KB) 
• Insights from lived experience report (9 pages) (PDF, 316 KB) 
• Insights from VCSE organisations report (6 pages) (PDF, 401 KB) 
• Review of UK LA Anti-Poverty Strategies (12 pages) (PDF, 575 KB)
• Poverty National Policy Context and Drivers Report (15 pages) (PDF, 628 KB)
• Regional Policy context (4 pages) (PDF, 721 KB) 

We look forward to seeing you on the 6 November 2025 at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. If you have any questions in the meantime, please email [email protected].