Submitting... Hartlepool Action Lab members (left to right) Cameron Dudding, Caroline Robinson and Darren Leighton with the report. Picture by FRANK REID Hartlepool Action Lab, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and housing trust, is made up of a number of individuals, community groups and organisations, voluntary and public sector agencies and businesses working to tackle poverty. It carried out the study to also help them identify and address the most pressing issues facing people as we come out of the pandemic. Spokesman Darren Leighton said: “There’s a real cliff edge approaching as things like the furlough scheme come to an end and we wanted to try as much as possible to have a data set that we could use to focus our energies in coming out of lockdown.