OUR MISSION

To fight the causes of poverty and to help households in extreme poverty in the UK to access the justice system when they face claims by statutory authorities and court proceedings by:

• acting as McKenzie Friends, who are court-recognised non-legal supporters of litigants in person, for  poor and vulnerable people facing the authorities’ or courts’ proceedings  for debt or fines;
• training  and supporting volunteers to act as McKenzie Friends to support vulnerable and impoverished debtors 
• campaigning to raise awareness about UK poverty by setting up and pursuing  test cases through the courts and by lobbying Parliament to change the law on issues identified from our work with vulnerable and impoverished debtors where the law, the legal process or the benefits system operate oppressively or unfairly.

Z2K'S STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES

We will combat poverty, and related ill health and educational underachievement;

We will promote the improvement of living and working conditions on the basis of economic and social justice in pursuit of a society that is fully inclusive of people of every race, colour and creed through the provision of evidence based policy alternatives to government.

We will pursue policies that are rooted in the experiences of the disadvantaged and excluded people of the United Kingdom, and the work of NGOs among them. They will be designed to reform the structures that create those conditions.

We oppose discrimination and inequality, both between men and women and between generations.

Aware of the pressures placed on the national economy and society by the globalised free market we will promote an economy in the United Kingdom aiming to generate the conditions of full employment in which all can share the financial burdens and opportunities of a democratic nation.

We will operate without allegiance to any political party while promoting, vigorously, policies that are consistent with this statement of principles to all political parties and to the government of the day.