Introduction For the past 35 years, various governments have claimed to have variations on a similar set of goals for the UK economy: decarbonise; spread more wealth and growth out of London; end the housing crisis; encourage the growth of new (and frequently greener) industries; and to encourage stronger communities. It’s proved seemingly impossible for […]
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Equality is a holistic goal. Inequality affects, and is affected by, so many overlapping areas of life that understanding it requires knowledge from every part of life. That’s why we’re launching a series of videocasts with guest experts, thinkers, and activists from across the equality movement to explore their perspective on inequality in greater detail. […]
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Vanessa is the Equality Trust’s Senior Project Officer. She champions the meaningful implementation of the Socio-Economic Duty (SED) to help build a fairer society. She represents the Equality Trust on the SED Expert Advisory Group to the Cabinet Office, the #1forEquality alliance and Make Equality Real campaign coalition. Key to her work is centring the […]
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Background Wealth is deeply unequal in the UK and getting more so; recent analysis also suggests this increase is particularly stark for younger generations. Within that inequality, the ONS Wealth and Assets Survey indicates a large ethnic wealth inequality. Household wealth holdings by ethnicity vary enormously, from a low of £34,000 where the head of […]
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Billionaires are thriving, corporations have raked in massive profits off our cost of living crisis, and global shareholder payouts are the highest they’ve ever been. Yet we’re being asked to swallow billions in cuts.
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Thank you so much for your interest in becoming a trustee of the Equality Trust – we are really excited to be growing our team as we continue our work to challenge concentrations of income, wealth and power so that everyone can have a good life. 2024 was a pivotal year for the Equality Trust, […]
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“When Germany sneezes, Europe catches a cold” We’re in the grip of a worldwide inequality crisis and growth in support for the far right. The two are inextricably linked and share common features – which means there’s a lot we should learn from this week’s elections in Germany. The election saw a historic rise in […]
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Here is a list of all the countries in the world that fully privatised their water and sewerage systems: Now, here is a list of the countries with massive bill hikes, water companies teetering on the edge of collapse, and sewage dumping crises: Nobody else did this! It’s worth remembering our unique experiment in giving […]
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As part of our campaign to commence to socio-economic duty, we’re asking supporters to write to their MP about Early Day Motion 258. This EDM calls for the socio-economic duty to be commenced in the strongest way, alongside consultation from trade unions, campaigners, and community groups. MPs from any party can sign this EDM! You […]
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2024 was an eventful year, and that wasn’t always a good thing. We know what we need to solve inequality in 2024 – community wealth-building, taxation of the super-rich, democratic ownership, action on the climate crisis, a fair political system, and tackling corporate profiteering – and the UK could do it now if our politicians […]
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The median pay for a UK FTSE 100 CEO has risen to £4.22 million according to new research from the High Pay Centre – meaning that by noon today, after only 3 days of work, UK CEOs had already made a year’s average UK salary. This puts CEO pay in the UK at record levels, […]
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New data from the Office for National Statistics shows that the poorest 10% of households in the UK are still paying a higher proportion of their income in tax than the richest. The UK’s tax system is meant to operate progressively, asking the richest to contribute more in order to tax the middle and poorest […]
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Today the Equal Pay Alliance has written to the government ministers and leaders within our political parties responsible for equalities to call for real action to close the pay gaps for racialised people, women, and people with disabilities. At the current rate of progress, it will take hundreds of years to reach a point where […]
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On a bright October morning, our London Organiser Maeve joined members of Brent London Renters Union, and their families and friends, outside Wembley Park station. Home to the Quintain development and Brent Civic Centre, Wembley is the epicentre of power and inequality within the borough and, as a local resident told Maeve, many can no […]
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The reality of the situation is that this budget wasn’t enough to meet the demands of any of the crises we face. It could have challenged our unequal system and properly funded public services, allowed people and communities to thrive, and built the greener, more equal future that we all want to see. It didn’t. […]
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On Wednesday 30th October, Rachel Reeves will deliver the first Labour budget in 14 years. Naturally, every media organisation and charity will be interested in analysing it – but we’ve repeatedly seen that our system can’t talk about economics without perpetuating misconceptions or outright falsehoods. An independent review of the BBC in 2023 found that […]
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Charlie has a varied background supporting communities at the sharp end of inequalities. With work across the mental health and wellbeing sector in Berkshire and Birmingham, Charlie has directly supported citizens in their daily, often complex, challenges. While also working on projects to uplift their vital voices of lived experience to instigate change in the systems […]
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Our new report, developed with BLAM, takes a critical look at how racial trauma can be understood and effectively addressed through the development of anti-racist therapy that centres the voices and experiences of racialised people. Racial trauma in the UK is not just a personal burden, but a public health emergency. It stems from persistent […]
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Over the last six months we have been working with a group of young people to co-produce a project which explores ‘Reconstructing the Social Contract’. The idea of a social contract between the government and its citizens, which previous generations understood, has been steadily dismantled over the past four decades. This erosion has left young […]
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The racist riots that spread through British cities in the last week of July were shocking, but not particularly surprising. Violent racism has been simmering for decades now, stoked to a boil by a media and political system that has upheld inequality by scapegoating migrants, Muslims, and Black and Brown people. Leaders within the British […]
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Job title: Senior SED Project Officer (Birmingham) Hours: Part time, 3 days/21 hours per week (0.6 FTE) Contract type: Permanent, subject to funding Salary: £40,681.61 (FTE) prorated 0.6 to £24,408.97 per year plus 7% employer pension contributions. Location: Remote working in West Midlands with travel within Birmingham Benefits: Time off between Christmas and New Year, […]
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In 2009, the bestselling and award winning book, The Spirit Level, sounded the alarm on the corrosive effects of economic injustice. At a time when only a few academics were exploring this issue, the book provided a comprehensive analysis linking the negative effects of inequality to a wide range of social ills – from higher […]
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Ahead of the King’s Speech, we wrote to every newly-elected MP in the House of Commons and coordinated an open letter calling for the immediate commencement of the socio-economic duty from our #1forEquality campaign group signed by Amnesty, Shelter, the Royal College of Physicians, Resolve Poverty, Equally Ours, Just Fair, and more. We need to […]
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The 2024 King’s Speech is the first of the new government’s, and reported to focus on “Inclusive Growth.” That’s why a key part of it should include enacting the socio-economic duty, finally bringing the last part of the Equality Act 2010 into force and requiring public bodies to focus on the inequalities that result from […]
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The Equality Trust looks forward to working constructively with the new government and would like to congratulate them on a historic victory. After 14 years of austerity and the degradation of our public services, bold and urgent action is required from this Labour government. The UK is one of the most unequal countries in Europe. […]
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Derby, like many cities in the UK, has been struggling with the cost-of-living crisis, as well as the legacy of decades of disinvestment and an unequal system. This inequality manifests in a lot of different ways. Not only is Derby left out of the wealth flowing into the hands of the UK’s richest, who mostly […]
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It’s crucial the next government addresses our inequality crisis, and it’s an all-encompassing crisis: it’s heavily intersectional, affects almost every area of policy, and is itself created by dozens of overlapping factors. There’s many different ways the policies can improve or worsen things. That’s why we decided to assess the manifestos released by the big […]
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Stories for Change has been an opportunity for people to share their lived experiences of structural inequalities in a language and format which encourages more people to discuss the issues described in these stories. Our hope is that people will resonate with these experiences and better understand structural inequalities as the multiple systems, policies and […]
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