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A better future is possible.

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

A Minimum Income Standard for the United Kingdom in 2025

The Minimum Income Standard (MIS) provides a vision of the living standards that we, as a society, agree everyone in the UK should be able to meet.

This report from the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University sets out what households need to reach MIS in 2025.

Read the report

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Story

Cost of living

Savings, debt and assets

A year of Labour but no progress: JRF’s cost of living tracker, summer 2025

A year into the new Labour Government, key hardship measures show no improvement - over 7 million low-income families are still going without essentials.

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Report

Care

Moving in circles: supporting carers navigating the care system

A national care strategy must put unpaid carers at its centre, supporting their choice to care or not through well-funded services, and valuing their skills to improve care quality.

Report

Imagination infrastructures

Climate change

Interrogating imagination infrastructure

As climate changes, economies stagnate or slow, and colonial patterns of exploitation continue — can creative, critical imagination navigate beyond today’s multiple crises?

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Funding

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation funds and works in partnership with other organisations to unlock the UK from poverty

Our people

Meet our leadership team and our teams of experts. You can also learn more about our trustees.

Careers

Do you want to help build a fairer future, free from poverty? Join us and use your skills to make a real difference.