Clare Moriarty
@claremoriarty.bsky.social
CEO of Citizens Advice
Fascinating rural/urban contrast in Parkrun demographics. I’m VW60-64, my son is SM25-29. Today at Hogmoor in Hampshire there were 11 in my age category and 12 in his, of a total 200 runners. Last week at Clapham Common there were 8 in my category and 99 in his, of 785 total.
October 11, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Fascinating rural/urban contrast in Parkrun demographics. I’m VW60-64, my son is SM25-29. Today at Hogmoor in Hampshire there were 11 in my age category and 12 in his, of a total 200 runners. Last week at Clapham Common there were 8 in my category and 99 in his, of 785 total.
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We welcome the Government’s new funding to tackle homelessness, especially the support for households in temporary accommodation - an issue we highlighted last month.
We look forward to further action through the Homelessness and Child Poverty strategies.
Read our report here: bit.ly/4ohqiwo
We look forward to further action through the Homelessness and Child Poverty strategies.
Read our report here: bit.ly/4ohqiwo
The Hidden Costs of Homelessness: how the cost of living in temporary accommodation is pushing families deeper into poverty
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October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
We welcome the Government’s new funding to tackle homelessness, especially the support for households in temporary accommodation - an issue we highlighted last month.
We look forward to further action through the Homelessness and Child Poverty strategies.
Read our report here: bit.ly/4ohqiwo
We look forward to further action through the Homelessness and Child Poverty strategies.
Read our report here: bit.ly/4ohqiwo
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Reasons to come to our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert this evening:
- cracking tunes from Mr Handel
- fab performances from choir & orchestra
- it's in a cool church 😎
Do come along!
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Reasons to come to our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert this evening:
- cracking tunes from Mr Handel
- fab performances from choir & orchestra
- it's in a cool church 😎
Do come along!
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Locusts! Frogs! Flies! Darkness! The vivid word-painting in Handel’s Great Escape oratorio Israel in Egypt is even more dynamic (and shorter) than his Messiah.
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...
Come hear us sing it on 12 July in the marvellous acoustic of St. Gabriel’s, Pimlico.
www.tickettailor.com/events/theel...
July 12, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Reasons to come to our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert this evening:
- cracking tunes from Mr Handel
- fab performances from choir & orchestra
- it's in a cool church 😎
Do come along!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Reasons to come to our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert this evening:
- cracking tunes from Mr Handel
- fab performances from choir & orchestra
- it's in a cool church 😎
Do come along!
👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
If the UCPIP Bill becomes law it will cut PIP for over 400k disabled people & UC for over 700k people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition by 2030. Government’s own impact assessment says the cuts will plunge 150k people into poverty by the end of this Parliament
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
If the UCPIP Bill becomes law it will cut PIP for over 400k disabled people & UC for over 700k people who are disabled or have a long-term health condition by 2030. Government’s own impact assessment says the cuts will plunge 150k people into poverty by the end of this Parliament
If Parliament votes in favour of the UCPIP Bill it will enshrine an arbitrary cut in law. We welcome the Timms Review but once again the government is doing things in the wrong order. @CitizensAdvice is asking MPs to vote against these proposals and calling on government to step back and think again
July 1, 2025 at 7:27 AM
If Parliament votes in favour of the UCPIP Bill it will enshrine an arbitrary cut in law. We welcome the Timms Review but once again the government is doing things in the wrong order. @CitizensAdvice is asking MPs to vote against these proposals and calling on government to step back and think again
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Speaking at our event @claremoriarty.bsky.social says we need to have a more coherent set of social tariffs across a range of areas (energy, other utilities, transport etc), and a range of localities. They are need to be automatic so they don't get in the way of everyday life.
June 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Speaking at our event @claremoriarty.bsky.social says we need to have a more coherent set of social tariffs across a range of areas (energy, other utilities, transport etc), and a range of localities. They are need to be automatic so they don't get in the way of everyday life.
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How are the cost of essentials affecting low-to-middle-income families across Britain?
On Monday, join our discussion with @claremoriarty.bsky.social @peterlevell.bsky.social and @lalithatry.bsky.social chaired by @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social
Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/3NYLh0r
On Monday, join our discussion with @claremoriarty.bsky.social @peterlevell.bsky.social and @lalithatry.bsky.social chaired by @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social
Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/3NYLh0r
June 29, 2025 at 11:47 AM
How are the cost of essentials affecting low-to-middle-income families across Britain?
On Monday, join our discussion with @claremoriarty.bsky.social @peterlevell.bsky.social and @lalithatry.bsky.social chaired by @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social
Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/3NYLh0r
On Monday, join our discussion with @claremoriarty.bsky.social @peterlevell.bsky.social and @lalithatry.bsky.social chaired by @mikebrewerecon.bsky.social
Sign up here ➡️ buff.ly/3NYLh0r
Proposed changes to disability benefits will create a two-tier system. If this goes ahead, from Nov 2026, new claimants who need help to cut up food, dress, wash, or use the toilet will be denied the lifeline that PIP provides 1/2
June 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Proposed changes to disability benefits will create a two-tier system. If this goes ahead, from Nov 2026, new claimants who need help to cut up food, dress, wash, or use the toilet will be denied the lifeline that PIP provides 1/2
We started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs
June 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs
Completely endorse your view @joeoharadcu.bsky.social but I should point out that the author is not me but my brilliant namesake @quiteclare.bsky.social. Honoured as ever to be mistaken for her!
Beautifully written piece by @claremoriarty.bsky.social on the need for parents to be courageous enough to let children take risks. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025... #edchatie #educationalresearch
Clare Moriarty: Is four too young to let my daughter go for a walk on her own?
There’s some risk involved in letting her out of my sight on a public roadway (even though I mostly linger where I can see her) but the rewards are worth it
www.irishtimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Completely endorse your view @joeoharadcu.bsky.social but I should point out that the author is not me but my brilliant namesake @quiteclare.bsky.social. Honoured as ever to be mistaken for her!
Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort
May 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort
The Committee on Standards in Public Life has published a fascinating report on early warning signs of major failures. It got me thinking about times in my career when things went wrong, and what I learned. Mostly a lot about risk.
cspl.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/r...
cspl.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/r...
Risk and Responsibility
Dame Clare Moriarty DCB, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, reflects on the Committee’s Early Warning Signs report.
cspl.blog.gov.uk
May 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Committee on Standards in Public Life has published a fascinating report on early warning signs of major failures. It got me thinking about times in my career when things went wrong, and what I learned. Mostly a lot about risk.
cspl.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/r...
cspl.blog.gov.uk/2025/05/02/r...
Late entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains
May 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Late entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains
Closest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil
May 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Closest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil
Plus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara
May 4, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Plus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara
It’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour
May 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour
Missed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara
April 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Missed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara
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📈 Child poverty is rising.
Ahead of the govt’s Child Poverty Strategy, join us to explore the root causes and the policy shifts needed to reverse the trend.
Speakers incl. Baroness Ruth Lister @claremoriarty.bsky.social & @tommacinnes.bsky.social
💙 #CADataInsights
Register⤵️ tinyurl.com/yrvh5d3n
Ahead of the govt’s Child Poverty Strategy, join us to explore the root causes and the policy shifts needed to reverse the trend.
Speakers incl. Baroness Ruth Lister @claremoriarty.bsky.social & @tommacinnes.bsky.social
💙 #CADataInsights
Register⤵️ tinyurl.com/yrvh5d3n
April 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📈 Child poverty is rising.
Ahead of the govt’s Child Poverty Strategy, join us to explore the root causes and the policy shifts needed to reverse the trend.
Speakers incl. Baroness Ruth Lister @claremoriarty.bsky.social & @tommacinnes.bsky.social
💙 #CADataInsights
Register⤵️ tinyurl.com/yrvh5d3n
Ahead of the govt’s Child Poverty Strategy, join us to explore the root causes and the policy shifts needed to reverse the trend.
Speakers incl. Baroness Ruth Lister @claremoriarty.bsky.social & @tommacinnes.bsky.social
💙 #CADataInsights
Register⤵️ tinyurl.com/yrvh5d3n
Reposted by Clare Moriarty
Useful intervention from @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO @citizensadvice.bsky.social:
“if you’re cutting benefits without a clear path to how people can receive income through other means, that’s not going to be raising their living standards or tackling poverty.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“if you’re cutting benefits without a clear path to how people can receive income through other means, that’s not going to be raising their living standards or tackling poverty.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Benefit cuts will push more people into poverty, warns Citizens Advice boss
Exclusive: Clare Moriarty hits out at Labour’s plan as ‘short-term action’ with ‘long-term consequences’ in rare intervention
www.theguardian.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Useful intervention from @claremoriarty.bsky.social CEO @citizensadvice.bsky.social:
“if you’re cutting benefits without a clear path to how people can receive income through other means, that’s not going to be raising their living standards or tackling poverty.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
“if you’re cutting benefits without a clear path to how people can receive income through other means, that’s not going to be raising their living standards or tackling poverty.”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Meanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour
March 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Meanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour
Spring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour
March 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Spring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour
At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it.
#Connemara #AnDóilín
#Connemara #AnDóilín
March 4, 2025 at 2:49 PM
At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it.
#Connemara #AnDóilín
#Connemara #AnDóilín
Today’s announcement of a 3rd consecutive rise in the energy price cap is really worrying for millions of people already struggling to afford their energy bills & in debt to energy suppliers. Govt plans to expand the Warm Home Discount are welcome but don’t go far enough @citizensadvice.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Today’s announcement of a 3rd consecutive rise in the energy price cap is really worrying for millions of people already struggling to afford their energy bills & in debt to energy suppliers. Govt plans to expand the Warm Home Discount are welcome but don’t go far enough @citizensadvice.bsky.social
Durford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour
February 16, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Durford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour
I’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour
February 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour