Three quick actions
Three quick actions
Please complete or share our survey on mobilising business voices against inequality, sign up for the launch webinar for our 'Canaries' report on 1 July, and let us know if you have spare office space
This week we’re asking for your help, in one or more of three areas: please complete or share our survey on mobilising business voices against inequality, sign up for (or help us to promote) the launch webinar for our 'Canaries' report on 1 July, and let us know if you have spare office space in central London (we’re expanding). More details on each of these below. Thank you!
Help us to find out more about how we can mobilise business voices against inequality
We are exploring ways to mobilise more business voices to help us to make the case for government to do more to tackle inequality. As part of this process, we are seeking views from a range of business people on some general questions and some more specific ideas via an online survey.
If you work in the private sector, please consider completing the survey yourself. And wherever you work, please help us to attract as many high-quality responses as possible by sharing it with your networks on social media or elsewhere.
Sign up for and/or help us to promote the launch event for our ‘Canaries’ report on 1 July
The UK is a very unfair country. Inequality – whether socio-economic, regional, racial, gender, class-based, or disability-based – has got out of hand. This is morally wrong, but it's also bad for our economy, society and democracy. It's no surprise that 85% of people are concerned about inequality in Britain today. And the bad news is that most experts believe that inequality is going to get even worse over the next few years.
To address this, the next government has to take bold action to reduce economic inequality and build a fairer society. If we don’t make progress on this agenda over the next parliament, the 2029 election result might see the far-right making gains that we have never seen before in this country, as foretold in the results of the recent EU elections. The stakes for the next government, and for all of us, could not be higher.
On 1 July, as we look ahead to the general election, the Fairness Foundation is publishing a report, 'The Canaries', that examines what the evidence tells us about how much more unfair Britain could become over the next five years, why this matters, and what we can do about it. It highlights the warnings made by experts from a range of sectors and disciplines - ‘the Canaries’ - about the trajectory that we are on, and what they think we need to do to get back onto a fairer, more prosperous and safer path.
During this launch webinar at 1pm on 1 July, the report’s analysis and recommendations will be discussed and situated within the wider context of the debate about inequality and poverty by an expert panel:
Helen Barnard, Director of Policy, Research and Impact, Trussell Trust
Shabna Begum, CEO, Runnymede Trust
Nick Harrison, Chief Executive, Sutton Trust
Anita Sangha, Fairness Foundation
Will Snell, Chief Executive, Fairness Foundation (chair)
And don’t forget about the launch webinar for our other report, ‘Deepening the Opportunity Mission’, on 9 July at 1pm (details here).
Help us to find cheap/free office space in central London
The Fairness Foundation team is expanding, and we’re looking for some cheap or ideally free office space in central London (preferably SW1/SE1 but also WC/EC). Please let me know if you know of anywhere that might be suitable and available; we need enough space for three people, ideally in a separate room, and it doesn’t have to be as posh as the photo. Taking over a small room in a larger office whose inhabitants have more space than they need would be the ideal scenario. Thank you!