Original signatories of the welfare for all statement

The following people were the original signatories of the welfare for all statement.

  • Mark Serwotka - general secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS)
  • Paul Kenny - general secretary of the GMB union
  • Sally Hunt – general secretary of the University and College Union (UCU)
  • Jeremy Dear - general secretary of National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
  • John Corey - general secretary of the Northern Ireland Public Service Alliance (NIPSA)
  • Katie Curtis – national women's officer, National Union of Students (NUS)
  • Ama Uzowuru - vice president welfare, National Union of Students (NUS)
  • Colin Hampton - National Unemployed Centres Combine
  • Eileen Devaney - national co-ordinator of the UK Coalition Against Poverty
  • Iman Achara – director of British Black Anti-Poverty Network
  • Peter Kelly - director of The Poverty Alliance Scotland
  • Frances Dowds – director of the Northern Ireland Anti-Poverty Network
  • Miranda Evans - policy and public affairs manager at Disability Wales
  • Dr Chris Ford MB ChB MRCP FRC GP - GP in North West London and the clinical director of substance misuse management in General Practice.
  • Tony Rhodes and Paula Hanson - co-founders of The National Carers Forum
  • Cheryl Dobbinson, Frances Kelly, Iain MacNeil, Rosemary O’Neill, Paul Tubby and Philippa Wood – Carer Watch
  • Chris Steel, Jean Milne and Tony Dennis - Carers Voices
  • Kelly Smith – secretary of the National Association of Welfare Rights Advisers
  • Claudia Rubin – head of policy and communications at Release
  • Stephen Fisher - chairman of trustees, Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) Action
  • Kim Sparrow - Single Mothers’ Self Defence
  • Claire Glasman - WinVisible (women with visible and invisible disabilities)
  • Niall Cooper - Church Action on Poverty and Get Fair Coalition
  • Adrian Sinfield - professor emeritus in Social Policy, School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh
  • Professor Ruth Lister CBE - professor of Social Policy at Loughborough University
  • Mark Donne - director of the Fair Pay Network
  • Steve Donnison and Holiday Whitehead - co-directors of Benefits and Work
  • Neal Lawson - chair of Compass
  • Andrew Fisher – co-ordinator of the Left Economic Advisory Panel
  • Clare Caves - secretary of European Anti Poverty Network - England
  • Maeve McGoldrick - Community Links
  • Dann Kenningham - national coordination team, ATD Fourth World