We are now looking for a volunteer co-ordinator & caseworker, to help us grow and manage our volunteers. Details of the vacancy is found in http://www.z2k.org/job-vacancy.

We've also placed it in Job Search with Jobrapido, search engine that specializes in job search.

The following amendment has now been tabled by Professor Baroness Finlay of Llandaff, immediate past President of the Royal Society of Medicine, a cross bench Peer.  We are working hard to persuade other Peers to add their names – any help would be welcome. The Committee stage of the Bill in the Lords begins on the 19th January. 

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We now have a newsletter! Many thanks to Isobel Williams who has helped us with the content and copywriting and Peter Sloper who designed the newsletter.

We hope to have it published every quarter. Please contact us if you would like to receive the newsletter.

Z2K was featured in The Times on 22 Oct 2009. Our Chair, Rev Paul Nicolson was then due to give evidence in to the Parliamentary Committee considering the Child Poverty Bill, and our Chief Executive, Joanna Kennedy emphasized our need for more volunteers to act as McKenzie Friends.

Our Chair, Rev Paul Nicolson gave evidence to the Parliamentary Bills Committee considering the Child Poverty Bill, as reported in the Times on Oct 22, 2009.

A bill to repeal the powers of bailiffs to break into people's homes and force entry when enforcing fines, and to break into homes and use force against debtors when enforcing debt repayments was introduced.

It received support from the House of Commons and will be read a second time on Friday 16th October 09.

Joanna Kennedy, Chief Executive of Z2K explains in an article featured in The Times, one of our major campaign for tighter regulations of bailiff , and  the removal of the provision for bailiffs to use force and effect forcible entry.

Read the article which was featured in The Times on 30 April 2009 here.

Paul Nicolson speaks in the House of Commons on the Welfare Reform Bill.

Rev Paul Nicolson letter to the Guardian was published on 11 May 09 on the sanctions proposed in the Welfare Reform Bill.