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Equality Trust
@equalitytrust.bsky.social
A registered charity that works to improve the quality of life in the UK by reducing economic and social inequality.
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People with disabilities face huge barriers to accessing work – and when they are working, are underpaid by an average of £4,000 a year. But employers don't even need to report their disability pay gaps, let alone work to close them.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Doing all this popular and fair stuff to tax the rich would be great on its own terms, but it could also help allow real investment in our future – and that pays dividends. Plus you get a better society out of it. Everyone wins, including the richest!
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Did the richest work harder to win their explosion of wealth? No! The cost of living crisis allowed banks, energy companies, water companies, supermarkets and more to do absolutely nothing and watch their profits soar off our higher bills. Taxing the richest would be about taking our wealth back.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Our tax system hugely favours the wealthiest. Taxes on income from work are much higher than passive income from wealth, allowing millionaires to pay effective tax rates that are half what the rest of us pay. Taxing the richest would make that system much fairer.
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Homelessness, foodbank use, and child poverty have all been growing alongside the wealth of the super rich. These things are two sides of the same coin: inequality is undermining our ability to provide for everyone.
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Taxing the rich could raise billions in the next budget – but that's far from the only reason to do it. Taxing the richest is popular, fair, and necessary to start making society more equal and our economy work better for everyone. Here's why:
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Who do you side with? The Telegraph's How I Spent It column or Ursula K. Le Guin?
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For Trustee Week, we asked our hard-working trustees to tell us how they felt about the UK's situation and the Equality Trust's mission to build a more equal society.

Read more: equalitytrust.org.uk/news/blog/wh...
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In just one day, someone in the richest 0.1% will produce more carbon pollution than half the world's population produce in a year according to new research from Oxfam. Inequality and pollution are inextricably linked. We need to #MakeRichPollutersPay
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
In last week's poll, our supporters trusted grassroots democracy more than national politicians to tax the richest, and a majority wanted citizens assemblies with tax and spend powers.
This week, we're asking: what should be done with your water company? Vote now: equalitytrust.org.uk/weekly-poll/
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Reeves has said she can’t "leave welfare untouched" – now that's scary. Cuts are still terrifying people with disabilities. We need the government to rule out taking their support away with the same zeal they rule out taxing the super rich.
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We're suffering and the planet is suffering – why? So Elon Musk can become the world's first trillionaire?
There's another way. Join us now at equalitytrust.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Here are some things that are rising: Child poverty. Foodbank use. Billionaire wealth.
Is that a sustainable way to run a society?
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Analysis from @positivemoneyuk.bsky.social has found that the big 4 UK banks made £24.1 billion in just six months this year. That's nearly £1 billion every week from higher interest rates: they're just sitting there letting huge profits roll in from our higher mortgages and rents.
Tax them.
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Well when you put it like that, I don't know if this is the best system for getting water.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Racial trauma in the UK is not just a personal burden, but a public health emergency. How could you build mental health services designed for black and racialised communities?
Find out more: equalitytrust.org.uk...
October 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@aplecollective.bsky.social are experts in ethical, lived experience–led policy & practice. Our new Taking Voice Seriously Toolkit shows you how to listen, act & embed lived experience in YOUR work, ethically & effectively. Ready to take voice seriously? Click here👉 www.aplecollective.c...
October 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
@aplecollective.bsky.social is building a sustainable grassroots network across the UK to raise awareness of poverty, challenge stigma and help eradicate it. We must build a world of empathy and create a safer space where those of us with hidden disabilities can be seen and heard. #IDEP2025
October 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
@aplecollective.bsky.social is a national collective of individuals & organisations with lived experience of poverty. We raise awareness, challenge stigma & work towards eradicating poverty- standing together to ensure lived experience voices are heard in uncertain times. #IDEP2025
October 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
To mark #IDEP2025 @aplecollective.bsky.social are taking over our social channels today. Look out for posts from them throughout the day and find their guest blog on the importance of #IDEP2025 and their new Taking Voice Seriously Toolkit here 👉 equalitytrust.org.uk...
October 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There are huge wealth inequalities between different ethnicities, from household averages of £34,000 where the household head identifies as Black African, to £314,000 for White British. But how do these inequalities get built?
Read more: equalitytrust.org.uk...
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Privatised water companies awarded themselves £80 billion in dividends while loading themselves up with £70 billion in debt. And now it's your problem, because they've won an appeal to finance all this by hiking YOUR bill even further. Nationalise now.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
EU billionaire wealth soared by over €400bn in just six months. This is enough money to hit Net Zero emissions in the UK about 3 times over, and maybe buy yourself some socks. I don't know. I don't know what you do with that kind of money. Wait, yes I do. TAX IT.
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Catch our wonderful co-founders Professors Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson (and many other great speakers, but they didn't help found the Equality Trust) at Australia's Equity Co-Lab Summit next week! You can find out more about this year's Fair By Design theme here: equitycolab.org/2025...
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Any individual with half a trillion dollars would be bad, but I'm not a fan of this being the one we've got either.
An economic system that does this is insane. Tax wealth now.
October 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM