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Equality Trust
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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.
People disabilities face 49 days of unpaid work starting November 12 due to a £4,000 disability pay gap.
November 13, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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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!
Taxing the rich to help build social homes could save £4.5bn in housing benefit and £3.3bn in universal credit; for everyone £100 spent on community spare there is a 31% return on investment, and the two-child benefit cap causes child poverty that costs the state £3.2bn every year. Investing in people pays!
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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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.
Infographic explaining why taxing the rich is justified, highlighting £24.1 billion bank profits, £30 billion energy profits, and water bills funding private debt.
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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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.
A graph showing the proportion of income paid in tax by the poorest 10% and the richest 10% in the UK. The proportion paid by the poorest 10% is consistently higher by about 10 percentage points from 2016 to 2024
November 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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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.
A graph showing UK billionaire wealth rising from £200bn to £650bn from 2010 to 2024. Over the same period, foodbank use increases from almost nothing in 2010 to a spike around 2015 of over 1mn, then continues to rocket up to over 3mn by 2024
November 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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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:
Infographic explaining how taxing the rich can raise billions through closing tax loopholes and wealth taxes. Key points include £24bn from a wealth tax, £15bn from bank windfall taxes, £14bn a year from equalising capital gains taxes, and other loopholes and subsidies for polluters.
November 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Who do you side with? The Telegraph's How I Spent It column or Ursula K. Le Guin?
Comparison of a Telegraph column on earning £71,000 but resenting people receiving benefits with a 1974 Ursula K. Le Guin quote on deserving and earning from The Dispossessed. The salient part of the quote reads: "No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think. "
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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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...
A quote from trustee Dianne Danquah that reads: To be a trustee, you have to believe in the mission of the organisation and want to see it thrive. I became an Equality Trust trustee to support the work of making society more equal for everyone. In this current system, it is hard to find time to be involved in what you believe in outside of the job you need to survive but fighting against inequality is core to my beliefs and deserves the time and attention. Quote from Rosanne Fienga reading: The UK’s inequality crisis continues to deepen. Our research paints a stark picture, showing that just 50 families have more wealth than 50% of the UK population. And as the number of billionaires continues to grow, so does in-work poverty, foodbank use and rates of child poverty. This dystopian concentration of wealth isn’t just morally indefensible, it is reflected in the lived experience of millions of people just surviving, in one of the richest countries on the planet. The movement we are building to tackle inequalities of income, wealth and power has never been more critical. Quote from Hannah Fairbrother reading: I’m regularly inspired by and motivated by the work of the Equality Trust. I often share the newsletter with students and colleagues, mobilise resources in my teaching, and employ the evidence to inform and shape my research. The Equality Trust’s vision for everyone to have the opportunity to have a good life, for communities to thrive, and for wealth and power to be shared more equally directly aligns with my commitment to understanding and tackling the political, social and economic structures that underlie health inequalities
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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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
Chart showing higher environmental problems in countries with greater income inequality, highlighting USA and Israel as outliers.
November 4, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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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/
Results from the Equality Trust's weekly poll of supporters (which is not a representative poll of the public) asking whether people trust international bodies, national governments, devolved governments, local governments or citizens assemblies more when it comes to taxing corporations, super rich individuals, or devolving more tax and spend powers. Results: Who do you most trust to tax corporations? UN/OECD, 13.8%; EU, 10.9%; National governments, 23.7%; Devolved governments, 4.2%, Local governments, 1.1%; Citizens assemblies, 46.3% Results: Who do you trust most to tax super-rich individuals? UN/OECD, 12%; EU, 6.7%; National governments, 26.2%; Devolved governments, 3.9%, Local governments, 1.8%; Citizens assemblies, 49.5% Results: Who would you want to empower to make more tax and spend decisions? UN/OECD, 7.1%; EU, 3.5%; National governments, 19.1%; Devolved governments, 7.1%, Local governments, 7.1%; Citizens assemblies, 56.2%
November 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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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.
Hands rising from graves marked with crosses and a tombstone labeled 'Austerity,' with bold green text stating 'Austerity Should Stay Dead.'
October 31, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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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
Illustration of Earth with text 'They're working us to death' emphasizing inequality harming people and planet, urging to tax the rich and invest in society.
October 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Here are some things that are rising: Child poverty. Foodbank use. Billionaire wealth.
Is that a sustainable way to run a society?
A graph showing that child poverty and billionaire wealth have both risen sharply since 2010, reaching 4.5 million children in poverty and £679bn of billionaire wealth
October 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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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.
Bold text on green background states 'BANK ROBS MAN!' with a message below about banks making nearly £1 billion weekly from higher mortgage and rent payments.
October 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Well when you put it like that, I don't know if this is the best system for getting water.
Flowchart illustrating how a privatised water company hikes water bills repeatedly while paying huge dividends and accumulating debt.
October 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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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...
Black people are 40% more likely to receive mental health care via the criminal justice system, highlighting systemic disparities.
October 18, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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@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
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@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
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@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
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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
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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...
A graphic that reads "We know wealth isn't equal - what about wealth building?"
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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.
Bold text announces water companies winning an appeal to increase customer bills, highlighted by repeated 'HIKE!' signs in green shades.
October 13, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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.
Text stating European billionaires earn 2 billion euros daily in the first half of 2025, with falling euro banknotes in the background.
October 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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...
A picture of Professor Richard Wilkinson and Professor Kate Pickett
October 7, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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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.
Graphic announcing Elon Musk as the world's first half trillionaire (hooray) with a call to tax wealth now, featuring a city skyline and private jets.
October 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM