DEBT STORY CAFE
Organised by Unfair Debt Group as part of Jubilee Debt Campaign’s ‘Debt Week'.’
Register here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/debt-story-cafe-tickets-81924515431
Join us for an evening of sharing stories and discussing how debt affects our lives and communities - and how we can build power to change the system.
One in four people in the UK have problems with debt. If you've struggled to make it to the end of the month and plugged the gap with credit cards, you're not alone. If you haven't got personal experience of debt, odds are someone around you does. Because of the stigma attached, you might not know.
We want to start breaking that stigma by talking about debt. We know it's not our own fault but that of a dysfunctional economic system that keeps our wages down, cuts our welfare and puts us on universal credit.
The UK currently has record high levels of personal debt, and there is an entire industry that preys on people, charging us higher interest the less we can afford it and profiting from our misfortunes.
What should be done? How can we change things?
Come and join us for an evening of sharing stories (although there is no pressure to!), drawing and writing about debt and discussing what can done to tackle the issue.
The Unfair Debt Group is a group of people worried about the impact of debt on our families and communities. We campaign for a fairer system where nobody has to pay more for their debt than they can afford, nobody gets treated unfairly by creditors and nobody has to get into debt just to survive.
We are organsing this event as part of Jubilee Debt Campaign's Debt Week 2019, a series of events across the country from 23 November to 1 December that will see thousands of people taking action.
The event takes place at the Hoe Street Central Bank in Walthamstow, a rebel bank art project that has taken on the payday loan industry by printing their own banknotes and selling them, using the profits to buy and abolish toxic local debt in a big bang.
There will be light refreshments – please register so we have an idea of numbers.
Follow the Unfair Debt Group on twitter: https://twitter.com/unfairdebtgroup
Email us: unfairdebtgroup@gmail.com