Debt Justice is recruiting a Community Organiser to take forward our organising and campaign work in East and South London. This role plays a key part in the campaign to end the UK’s household debt crisis.

The UK is in the grip of a household debt crisis, driven by stagnating incomes, cuts to welfare and acost of livingcrisis that forces millions of people into debt to pay for essentials. Over 10 million people are overindebted, with energy bills, council tax arrears and credit card debtapproachingrecord highs.InLondonthis problem is particularly acute, more than half of low-income Londoners are grappling with arrears according to Joseph Rowntree Foundation research.Debt also functions as a key driver of racialised health inequality and injustice.Over-indebtedness affects 28% of Londoners of Black African origin, 24% of Black Caribbean origin, and 22% of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin.

We believe that campaigns to tackle this injustice should be led by people with ...