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title: Evidence and insight
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# Evidence and insight

Our research, data and lived experience insights help us better understand poverty and what it takes to address it. Explore reports, tools and stories that inform our work and support action in communities across the UK.

 

 

          ![A woman presenting some research on a screen.](https://cuf.org.uk/assets/images/_1008x567_crop_center-center_82_none/20250320-IMG_5693-Portrayed-Photography.jpg?v=1788268904)  

 

 

 

## What we are learning together

 

- ![](https://cuf.org.uk/assets/images/_528x297_crop_center-center_82_none/web-of-poverty-rectangle.png?v=1787152972) ### [How CUF understands poverty](https://cuf.org.uk/resources/evidence-and-insight/web-of-poverty)
    
    It can help to imagine poverty as a web of interconnected challenges that shape a person’s or a community’s ability to thrive, including poverty of identity, poverty of resources and poverty of relationships.
- ![](https://cuf.org.uk/assets/images/_528x297_crop_center-center_82_none/CUF-impact-report-2024.png?v=1787147578) ### [Annual reports](https://cuf.org.uk/resources/evidence-and-insight/annual-reports)
    
    Our annual impact reports show how, together with our supporters and partners, we are helping to build stronger communities and tackle poverty and exclusion, by mobilising people, churches and whole communities to make a difference.
- ![](https://cuf.org.uk/assets/images/_528x297_crop_center-center_82_none/Look-Up-Tool-assets-2024-1650-x-1114.jpg?v=1787054188) ### [Parish data and comparison tool](https://cuf.org.uk/resources/parish-data-and-comparison-tool)
    
    Who lives in your community and what are the challenges they face? Our interactive tool will help you understand your community and know where to act.
- ![](https://cuf.org.uk/assets/images/_528x297_crop_center-center_82_none/Four-Oaks-Methodist-Church155-Lichfield-RoadSutton-Coldfield-West-Midlands-B74-2UU-Large.jpg?v=1787051757) ### [News](https://cuf.org.uk/about-us/news)
    
    Stories, news and reflections from across our work, our partners and the communities we serve.