Z2K (Zacchaeus 2000 Trust)
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Anti-poverty charity working to end UK poverty together with people who experience it. Join us: https://bit.ly/Z2K-mailing-list
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We're Z2K, a leading anti-poverty charity working to end UK poverty through providing expert frontline advice and representation services and campaigning for change.
Follow us to stay updated on our work and get involved in our campaigns.
We're Z2K, a leading anti-poverty charity working to end UK poverty through providing expert frontline advice and representation services and campaigning for change.
Follow us to stay updated on our work and get involved in our campaigns.
Today, Parliament begins debating the Bill to end the two-child limit – a policy that helped drive child poverty to a record high.
We’re proud to stand with 65 other organisations calling on MPs to support it.
Read our joint statement here: cpag.org.uk/news/stateme...
We’re proud to stand with 65 other organisations calling on MPs to support it.
Read our joint statement here: cpag.org.uk/news/stateme...
Statement on Bill to end the two-child limit
65 organisations have come together to commend the government for making the choice to scrap the two-child limit and ask all MPs to stand with children and support this Bill.
cpag.org.uk
February 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM
Today, Parliament begins debating the Bill to end the two-child limit – a policy that helped drive child poverty to a record high.
We’re proud to stand with 65 other organisations calling on MPs to support it.
Read our joint statement here: cpag.org.uk/news/stateme...
We’re proud to stand with 65 other organisations calling on MPs to support it.
Read our joint statement here: cpag.org.uk/news/stateme...
We've told the Milburn Review that punitive benefits rules don’t ‘incentivise’ young people – they punish disabled people and lock them out of work.
Read our response in full: https://z2k.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Z2K-submission-Milburn-Review-call-for-evidence-Jan-26.pdf
Read our response in full: https://z2k.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Z2K-submission-Milburn-Review-call-for-evidence-Jan-26.pdf
January 28, 2026 at 1:29 PM
We've told the Milburn Review that punitive benefits rules don’t ‘incentivise’ young people – they punish disabled people and lock them out of work.
Read our response in full: https://z2k.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Z2K-submission-Milburn-Review-call-for-evidence-Jan-26.pdf
Read our response in full: https://z2k.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/Z2K-submission-Milburn-Review-call-for-evidence-Jan-26.pdf
NEW JOB 💜 Operations Manager
The role combines oversight with day-to-day delivery across all core operational functions – including HR, governance, IT and data, finance administration, and internal systems.
➡️Full time, Permanent, £41,656, Hybrid
#CharityJob #HybridWork
The role combines oversight with day-to-day delivery across all core operational functions – including HR, governance, IT and data, finance administration, and internal systems.
➡️Full time, Permanent, £41,656, Hybrid
#CharityJob #HybridWork
January 27, 2026 at 9:14 AM
NEW JOB 💜 Operations Manager
The role combines oversight with day-to-day delivery across all core operational functions – including HR, governance, IT and data, finance administration, and internal systems.
➡️Full time, Permanent, £41,656, Hybrid
#CharityJob #HybridWork
The role combines oversight with day-to-day delivery across all core operational functions – including HR, governance, IT and data, finance administration, and internal systems.
➡️Full time, Permanent, £41,656, Hybrid
#CharityJob #HybridWork
🔴We say NO to cutting disability benefits: the public, disabled people, and many reasonable MPs across the UK made it clear last summer.
inews.co.uk/news/benefit...
inews.co.uk/news/benefit...
Fresh benefits rebellion brews as PIP whistleblowers expose ‘superficial’ quotas
One MP said it would be the 'straw that breaks the back of the Starmer leadership'
inews.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 2:49 PM
🔴We say NO to cutting disability benefits: the public, disabled people, and many reasonable MPs across the UK made it clear last summer.
inews.co.uk/news/benefit...
inews.co.uk/news/benefit...
Carers were landed with debts they never owed because the DWP ran a system of ✨blancmange✨: wobbly rules and no grip on the harm caused.
Now it wants banks to hand over data. The DWP needs to build trust, not be handed unchecked power.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Now it wants banks to hand over data. The DWP needs to build trust, not be handed unchecked power.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
MPs criticise behaviour of senior DWP officials over carer’s allowance scandal
Top DWP civil servant accused of giving out ‘a lot of blancmange’ over department’s response during hearing
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Carers were landed with debts they never owed because the DWP ran a system of ✨blancmange✨: wobbly rules and no grip on the harm caused.
Now it wants banks to hand over data. The DWP needs to build trust, not be handed unchecked power.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Now it wants banks to hand over data. The DWP needs to build trust, not be handed unchecked power.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
At Z2K, our expert advice and representation service supports people to navigate complex systems and access vital income.
Read about how we helped Emmanuel.
Read about how we helped Emmanuel.
January 14, 2026 at 11:26 AM
At Z2K, our expert advice and representation service supports people to navigate complex systems and access vital income.
Read about how we helped Emmanuel.
Read about how we helped Emmanuel.
Today the government publishes the bill to end the two-child limit. This huge moment in the fight against child poverty should be celebrated.
But keeping the punitive household benefit cap will blunt its impact for hundreds of thousands of children. This cap should also go.
But keeping the punitive household benefit cap will blunt its impact for hundreds of thousands of children. This cap should also go.
January 8, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Today the government publishes the bill to end the two-child limit. This huge moment in the fight against child poverty should be celebrated.
But keeping the punitive household benefit cap will blunt its impact for hundreds of thousands of children. This cap should also go.
But keeping the punitive household benefit cap will blunt its impact for hundreds of thousands of children. This cap should also go.
In 2025, we provided vital advice and legal representation for people living in poverty and helped to force major government U-turns through our campaigning.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work – and here’s to making even more change together in 2026.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work – and here’s to making even more change together in 2026.
January 7, 2026 at 10:00 AM
In 2025, we provided vital advice and legal representation for people living in poverty and helped to force major government U-turns through our campaigning.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work – and here’s to making even more change together in 2026.
Thank you to everyone who has supported our work – and here’s to making even more change together in 2026.
Reducing the number of high-stakes PIP reassessments is the right step.
But the government’s pro-assessment rhetoric sends the wrong signal.
Assessments should be the exception, not the starting point.
www.thetimes.com/article/52f3...
But the government’s pro-assessment rhetoric sends the wrong signal.
Assessments should be the exception, not the starting point.
www.thetimes.com/article/52f3...
Gap between disability benefit reviews will be extended
The change to personal independence payment assessments is intended to save almost £2 billion in welfare spending by the end of the decade
www.thetimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Reducing the number of high-stakes PIP reassessments is the right step.
But the government’s pro-assessment rhetoric sends the wrong signal.
Assessments should be the exception, not the starting point.
www.thetimes.com/article/52f3...
But the government’s pro-assessment rhetoric sends the wrong signal.
Assessments should be the exception, not the starting point.
www.thetimes.com/article/52f3...
Over 100,000 children in London will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation, according to new research.
Our Senior Policy Advisor spoke to LBC News about the human impact of the growing temporary accommodation crisis.
Our Senior Policy Advisor spoke to LBC News about the human impact of the growing temporary accommodation crisis.
December 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Over 100,000 children in London will spend this Christmas in temporary accommodation, according to new research.
Our Senior Policy Advisor spoke to LBC News about the human impact of the growing temporary accommodation crisis.
Our Senior Policy Advisor spoke to LBC News about the human impact of the growing temporary accommodation crisis.
Six disabled people displayed written pieces about their experiences of receiving disability benefits in Parliament.
In a new blog, expert by experience Roxie has written about how it felt to work on this exhibition: https://z2k.org/behind-the-scenes-of-my-piece-whats-wrong-with-her/
In a new blog, expert by experience Roxie has written about how it felt to work on this exhibition: https://z2k.org/behind-the-scenes-of-my-piece-whats-wrong-with-her/
December 15, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Six disabled people displayed written pieces about their experiences of receiving disability benefits in Parliament.
In a new blog, expert by experience Roxie has written about how it felt to work on this exhibition: https://z2k.org/behind-the-scenes-of-my-piece-whats-wrong-with-her/
In a new blog, expert by experience Roxie has written about how it felt to work on this exhibition: https://z2k.org/behind-the-scenes-of-my-piece-whats-wrong-with-her/
Reducing the use of B&Bs as temporary accommodation is vital.
But the freeze on housing benefit flies in the face of the government’s efforts to tackle this crisis.
We need further action to stop rising rents pushing more people into homelessness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But the freeze on housing benefit flies in the face of the government’s efforts to tackle this crisis.
We need further action to stop rising rents pushing more people into homelessness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Homelessness minister promises to end use of B&Bs as emergency housing
Exclusive: Alison McGovern makes target for end of this parliament, but figures show homelessness has jumped
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Reducing the use of B&Bs as temporary accommodation is vital.
But the freeze on housing benefit flies in the face of the government’s efforts to tackle this crisis.
We need further action to stop rising rents pushing more people into homelessness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But the freeze on housing benefit flies in the face of the government’s efforts to tackle this crisis.
We need further action to stop rising rents pushing more people into homelessness.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
💜 Thanks to the incredible generosity of supporters, pledgers, and our champion funder, we have hit our Big Give Christmas campaign target, raising £30,457!
🎄Read our new blog to find out more about the impact of doubling your donations over the past week:
https://ow.ly/KRL050XGnV3
🎄Read our new blog to find out more about the impact of doubling your donations over the past week:
https://ow.ly/KRL050XGnV3
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
💜 Thanks to the incredible generosity of supporters, pledgers, and our champion funder, we have hit our Big Give Christmas campaign target, raising £30,457!
🎄Read our new blog to find out more about the impact of doubling your donations over the past week:
https://ow.ly/KRL050XGnV3
🎄Read our new blog to find out more about the impact of doubling your donations over the past week:
https://ow.ly/KRL050XGnV3
💜🎄We did it! 🎄💜
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we’ve hit our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target and raised £30,457 (inc. Gift Aid)
From all of us at Z2K, thank you for standing with us and making a life-changing difference.
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we’ve hit our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target and raised £30,457 (inc. Gift Aid)
From all of us at Z2K, thank you for standing with us and making a life-changing difference.
December 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
💜🎄We did it! 🎄💜
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we’ve hit our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target and raised £30,457 (inc. Gift Aid)
From all of us at Z2K, thank you for standing with us and making a life-changing difference.
Thanks to your incredible generosity, we’ve hit our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target and raised £30,457 (inc. Gift Aid)
From all of us at Z2K, thank you for standing with us and making a life-changing difference.
⏰Just 3 hours left to double your donation! The Big Give ends at midday – this is your last chance to make twice the impact.
💝Every pound you give will help Z2K stand with people failed by the housing and social security systems
💜Donate before midday: https://ow.ly/87xK50XG7tU
💝Every pound you give will help Z2K stand with people failed by the housing and social security systems
💜Donate before midday: https://ow.ly/87xK50XG7tU
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
⏰Just 3 hours left to double your donation! The Big Give ends at midday – this is your last chance to make twice the impact.
💝Every pound you give will help Z2K stand with people failed by the housing and social security systems
💜Donate before midday: https://ow.ly/87xK50XG7tU
💝Every pound you give will help Z2K stand with people failed by the housing and social security systems
💜Donate before midday: https://ow.ly/87xK50XG7tU
💜We're so close to hitting our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target - £795 to go!
⏰The chance to double your donations ends midday tomorrow
Can you help us cross the finish line? https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM8
⏰The chance to double your donations ends midday tomorrow
Can you help us cross the finish line? https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM8
December 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
💜We're so close to hitting our Big Give #ChristmasChallenge target - £795 to go!
⏰The chance to double your donations ends midday tomorrow
Can you help us cross the finish line? https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM8
⏰The chance to double your donations ends midday tomorrow
Can you help us cross the finish line? https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM8
⏰There's only 24 hours left to double your difference.
Time is running out to have your donation doubled, ensuring people facing poverty can have their voices heard.
Donate and change lives: https://ow.ly/loFN50XFz9p
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #EndPovertyChangeLives
Time is running out to have your donation doubled, ensuring people facing poverty can have their voices heard.
Donate and change lives: https://ow.ly/loFN50XFz9p
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #EndPovertyChangeLives
December 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
⏰There's only 24 hours left to double your difference.
Time is running out to have your donation doubled, ensuring people facing poverty can have their voices heard.
Donate and change lives: https://ow.ly/loFN50XFz9p
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #EndPovertyChangeLives
Time is running out to have your donation doubled, ensuring people facing poverty can have their voices heard.
Donate and change lives: https://ow.ly/loFN50XFz9p
#BigGive #ChristmasChallenge #EndPovertyChangeLives
"Z2K helped me when no one else could. They saw me as a person, not a case number".
Double your impact with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and donate today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM7
Double your impact with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and donate today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM7
December 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
"Z2K helped me when no one else could. They saw me as a person, not a case number".
Double your impact with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and donate today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM7
Double your impact with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and donate today: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM7
Every day at Z2K, our specialist housing caseworkers ensure people have their rights upheld and prevent homelessness.
Your support makes this possible. Donate through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and double your difference today: https://ow.ly/AcNW50XCHL0
Your support makes this possible. Donate through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and double your difference today: https://ow.ly/AcNW50XCHL0
December 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Every day at Z2K, our specialist housing caseworkers ensure people have their rights upheld and prevent homelessness.
Your support makes this possible. Donate through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and double your difference today: https://ow.ly/AcNW50XCHL0
Your support makes this possible. Donate through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge and double your difference today: https://ow.ly/AcNW50XCHL0
A broken social security system is leaving people without the essential income they need.
We fight for fairness, supporting people through every stage of the complex and overwhelming appeals process.
Donate today and make twice the impact: https://ow.ly/MhfV50XCH0O
#ChristmasChallenge
We fight for fairness, supporting people through every stage of the complex and overwhelming appeals process.
Donate today and make twice the impact: https://ow.ly/MhfV50XCH0O
#ChristmasChallenge
December 5, 2025 at 2:02 PM
A broken social security system is leaving people without the essential income they need.
We fight for fairness, supporting people through every stage of the complex and overwhelming appeals process.
Donate today and make twice the impact: https://ow.ly/MhfV50XCH0O
#ChristmasChallenge
We fight for fairness, supporting people through every stage of the complex and overwhelming appeals process.
Donate today and make twice the impact: https://ow.ly/MhfV50XCH0O
#ChristmasChallenge
We're so close - thanks to your incredible support, we've raised over 80% of our target! 💜
Every donation until 9th December will be doubled, giving twice the power to fight poverty and injustice.
Help us reach the finish line: https://ow.ly/R34W50XCG2E
Every donation until 9th December will be doubled, giving twice the power to fight poverty and injustice.
Help us reach the finish line: https://ow.ly/R34W50XCG2E
December 5, 2025 at 12:01 PM
We're so close - thanks to your incredible support, we've raised over 80% of our target! 💜
Every donation until 9th December will be doubled, giving twice the power to fight poverty and injustice.
Help us reach the finish line: https://ow.ly/R34W50XCG2E
Every donation until 9th December will be doubled, giving twice the power to fight poverty and injustice.
Help us reach the finish line: https://ow.ly/R34W50XCG2E
The government has just launched its Child Poverty Strategy.
Read our reaction below 👇
Read our reaction below 👇
December 5, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The government has just launched its Child Poverty Strategy.
Read our reaction below 👇
Read our reaction below 👇
Your support can help fight injustice. Every day, Z2K challenges unjust decisions and helps people reclaim disability benefits they are entitled to.
Donate today, and double your difference: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM4
Donate today, and double your difference: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM4
December 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Your support can help fight injustice. Every day, Z2K challenges unjust decisions and helps people reclaim disability benefits they are entitled to.
Donate today, and double your difference: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM4
Donate today, and double your difference: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006TZ8bYAG?utm_campaign=a05WS000006TZ8bYAG-SM4
This Christmas, you can help someone access the vital income they need to afford essentials and live with dignity.
Through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge, your £20 gift becomes a £40 lifeline - doubling your impact. Donate online today: https://ow.ly/UNJv50XBjBL
Through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge, your £20 gift becomes a £40 lifeline - doubling your impact. Donate online today: https://ow.ly/UNJv50XBjBL
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
This Christmas, you can help someone access the vital income they need to afford essentials and live with dignity.
Through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge, your £20 gift becomes a £40 lifeline - doubling your impact. Donate online today: https://ow.ly/UNJv50XBjBL
Through the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge, your £20 gift becomes a £40 lifeline - doubling your impact. Donate online today: https://ow.ly/UNJv50XBjBL
When you feel lost in a complex and hostile system, having someone by your side can change everything.
This week, you can double your difference with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge
💜Join our fight against poverty today, and double your impact: https://ow.ly/ASyo50XBc2Y
This week, you can double your difference with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge
💜Join our fight against poverty today, and double your impact: https://ow.ly/ASyo50XBc2Y
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
When you feel lost in a complex and hostile system, having someone by your side can change everything.
This week, you can double your difference with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge
💜Join our fight against poverty today, and double your impact: https://ow.ly/ASyo50XBc2Y
This week, you can double your difference with the Big Give #ChristmasChallenge
💜Join our fight against poverty today, and double your impact: https://ow.ly/ASyo50XBc2Y