The Government’s pledge to extend the “Help to Buy” programme is a further mistaken investment in a policy which has had little impact on extending home ownership to lower income households, explains ...

Underrepresentation of people from low-&-middle-income backgrounds is even worse in charities sector than in public or private sectors. A way of addressing it is being developed. Maybe you can help pu...

New Class Unit to focus on improving lives of low-income families, disadvantaged communities and rooting out child poverty.

The equalities minister is to set up a unit that will put social class on a par with race and gender and create a ‘socioeconomic duty’ for public bodies

"Third of junior charity roles now paid below real living wage, research finds" https://lnkd.in/eRdK5cK2 (via Civil Society Media Ltd) "low and insecure pay, especially in entry-level roles" was iden...

The Bridge Group is currently seeking a Partnerships and Development Manager to support our work as a leading independent research and advisory charity promoting socio-economic inclusion through evide...

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Diversity is celebrated here! (on condition that inequality isn’t acknowledged)… A new study of an American neighbourhood reveals unwritten rules that might reflect those in your organisation: ...

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Every year thousands of young people leave the care system with no home and little support. Caroline Scott meets the resilient twentysomethings facing adulthood alone

Who gets into (which) university is as much about privilege as potential (which is ideally kept in mind when recruiting staff)... Entry to university is strongly correlated to students’ socioeconomic...

Seeing those who should be benefitting from our work, or engaging with it, as case studies or caricatures, as less fully human than ourselves?... The quote, pictured, from Matt Mahmood-Ogston’s (char...

Those of us who aren’t from London & the South East are a majority of the UK population. So why do we often feel like a minority in ‘national’ organisations? (New research) A recent report by The Sut...

Channel 4 Sales has today launched the eleventh edition of its annual Diversity in Advertising Awards, offering £1 million worth of advertising airtime to support work that champions more authentic re...

Charities, accused of being an out-of-touch elite, scale back efforts to become more representative of the public... When charities’ personnel & cultures are unrepresentative of the public, it provid...

"Attacks on the charity’s cause area have meant increased caution from donors": an example of reckless caution? attempts to appease an unappeasable aggressor? There's a lot of examples currently of f...

Low pay versus “a charity sector where lived experience is valued, & where young people from all backgrounds can enter, and stay, in the sector”… New research shows that “An increased proportion of r...

Charities feel pressure to present themselves as ‘good work done on a shoestring’ but low pay in the sector is corroding our impact…. A new report by PBE highlights the ‘squeeze on charity wages’. PB...

Mindless generational labels don’t help at a time when the workplace is one of the few places where young and old mix