Introduction The relationship between wealth and democracy has always been uneasy. In principle, democracy rests on political equality, the idea that each citizen’s voice carries equal weight. In practice, vast wealth inequality has created parallel economies of influence. Obscene wealth increasingly dictates who is heard, what issues are prioritised, and whose interests shape policy decisions. […]
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This guest blog was written by our Trustee Dianne Danquah as part of Trustees Week, which celebrates the contributions of volunteers like Dianne. Even before joining in June, Dianne made huge contributions through being a youth advocate. I became a trustee at the Equality Trust earlier this year because I believe everyone deserves to live […]
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This guest blog was written by our Trustees Yamini Cinamon Nair and Tom Allanson (Co-Chairs of the Board), and Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson (Co-founders and Patrons) as part of Trustees Week. This week is intended to celebrate the huge contributions our trustees make to the Equality Trust – so we started by asking them […]
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On 9th October, we held a workshop for local authority members to learn more about the best ways to implement the socio-economic duty – a part of the Equality Act 2010 that may finally be coming into force. We and our expert speakers shared case studies, tips and resources on how to approach the SED […]
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To mark both Challenge Poverty Week and the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty we are delighted to welcome our friends from Addressing Poverty through Lived Experience (APLE) Collective to author this guest blog. APLE continue to inspire us with their incredible work putting lived experience at the centre of decision making. At APLE Collective, we […]
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This poem was written by guest writer Barbara Kyei as part of our place-based organising work and community reporting project in Brent. Welcome to OUR Brent? Our commonality is for everyone to be welcomed Welcome not for what you are but rather who you are. Welcomed to our city Welcome to our community Welcomed into […]
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This blog was written by guest writer Beanica Tripoli as part of our place-based organising work and community reporting project in Brent. As a Politics & International Relations master’s student who has always been passionate about social justice, it has been a privilege to work as a Brent Community Reporter with the Equality Trust. I’ve […]
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This blog was written by guest writer Riham Lotfi as part of our place-based organising work and community reporting project in Brent. Becoming a Brent Community Reporter has been more than just a role — it’s been a personal mission. As a mother, an educator, and a resident of Brent, I’ve always cared about social […]
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Public Procurement: Growing British industry, Jobs and Skills BetterforUs Consultation Response supported by the Structural Inequalities Alliance and Equality Trust Summary This document has been produced by BetterforUs, a national campaign run by Aspire Community Works, a Real Living Wage community business with seventeen years’ experience of delivering public contracts in London and the South […]
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This blog from Caroline Tosal-Suprun as part of our ongoing Community Economist project, which you can read more about here. Read the first blog, What is the Economy? What is a community economist? Someone with no formal training or in-depth knowledge about the economy who wants to be part of challenging economic inequality. By design, […]
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Introduction This response to the government’s call for evidence draws upon the Equality Trust’s research, collaboration with partners, stakeholder insights from place-based and participatory projects, and practitioner insights from the field. We have chosen to address the specific questions where we have the most relevant data and experience to make a contribution. This includes proposals […]
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Introduction In 2017 the 1forEquality campaign was launched. The campaign seeks the effective commencement, implementation and enforcement of Section 1 the Equality Act – the socio-economic duty – across Great Britain in order to improve the fulfilment and protection of everyday rights, and reduce inequality. This response has been developed by members of the campaign […]
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What is the economy? It's a question a lot of us shy away from.
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With over 17 years of experience as a leading expert on equality and human rights, Rebecca has dedicated her career to advancing social justice through policy and legislation. Her current work, which focuses on advising government and parliament on matters relating to employment and children’s rights, has had a significant impact on shaping inclusive public […]
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The below is our submission to the government consultation on the Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working Green Paper. Consultation Questions Chapter 2: Reforming the structure of the health and disability benefits system 1. What further steps could the Department for Work and Pensions take to make sure the benefit […]
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I am a civil servant living in London since 2017, with a focus on climate and people. I am Franco-American, but have recently become a UK citizen, and very keen to partake in making this country and more equal and inclusive place. I have been lucky to mentor many colleagues, improve D&I in the civil […]
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Prior to qualifying in Community Development Chris worked with homeless people and did youth work. Since 1990 Chris has focussed on equality working in and running Race Equality Councils and setting up and running health advocacy projects. Chris joined the Commission for Racial Equality in 2002 before moving to the Disability Rights Commission where he […]
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Aliyah Green is a racial and environmental justice facilitator, interested in justice movements and anti-oppression work generally. With a focus on empowering young people, Aliyah supports the development of their campaigning skills and delivers political education programs designed to inspire and equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to make systemic change. She is […]
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Samia Khatun is an INGO, Social Justice and Global Health professional with extensive senior leadership, organisational governance and executive management experience. She currently works as Head of Programmes at King’s Global Health Partnerships where she is responsible for the overall strategic direction and management of its programmes, partnerships and operations which includes the London based […]
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Sam is a research and evaluation expert with experience in the charity sector. Currently working within the Insights team at Youth Music, he collects and analyses data from the grassroots music network. These findings are used to evaluate impact and reinforce evidence-led decision making, with the aim of supporting marginalised young people to make and […]
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Jacob Smith is a housing-finance specialist at Bristol City Council, where he uses data to keep rents fair and strengthen social housing. As Treasurer of his local party he manages budgets that power grassroots campaigns and brings evidence on wealth inequality to doorsteps and community halls. A regular speaker on the human cost of austerity, […]
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Rosie Murphy is a midwife with expertise in tackling inequalities of care in NHS maternity services and across the wider NHS system. Rosie graduated as a midwife from Leeds University in 2009 and her first midwifery posts were in London. It was the contrast in population needs and service provision that first highlighted to her […]
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Every human deserves a good life and I am dedicated to fighting for this. At University, I studied Sociology with a specialism in Race and Global Politics, which refined by critical analysis skills. Society is increasingly suffocating for marginalised groups, while those in power hoard resources. Things need to change today. I currently work in […]
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Milla is Head of Maths at the London Screen Academy, a film and TV sixth form college dedicated to increasing diversity and access to opportunity in the creative industries. Having trained through Teach First, she entered the teaching profession with a hope to tackle education inequalities in the classroom, and continues this work as a […]
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Hannah is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health at the University of Sheffield, where her research critically examines socially patterned inequities in health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on children, young people, and families. She is driven by a commitment to understanding and addressing the environmental, social, and political factors that influence health. This […]
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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has delivered a spending review, releasing a large amount of money for capital investment while also committing to further spending cuts in order to meet the UK’s self-imposed fiscal rules. This wasn’t ever going to be something that challenged the UK’s failed systems of inequality, but there are points […]
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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 26th November 2025, Rachel Reeves will deliver Labour’s second autumn budget. It’s easy to talk about the politics, characters, and narratives about rising or falling popularity – but what about the actual substance and how it’ll affect peoples’ lives? Every media organisation and charity will be interested in analysingthe budget, but we’ve repeatedly seen […]
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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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