Equally Ours (previously the Equality and Diversity Forum) started out in 2002 as a pan-equality meeting of experts to discuss proposals to create a single statutory equality body to replace the then Equal Opportunities Commission, Commission for Racial Equality and Disability Rights Commission.
From that first meeting we grew to be an influential network that successfully made the case for improving protections for everyone, resulting in the Equality Act 2010 – the biggest single shake-up of the UK’s equality laws.
Our members are still core to who we are and what we do and, to this day, we remain the only UK-wide pan-equality and human rights organisation in the UK – speaking powerfully with one voice on public policy issues of common interest.
Equally Ours’ vision is a just and compassionate society, where we are free from harm and can all contribute and flourish, whoever we are, whatever we believe in and whatever we do and don’t have. A society that is equally ours.
Our mission is to advance people’s equality and human rights in the UK. We do this by connecting people, our members, and networks, and using our collective evidence, expertise, strength and influence to create change.
Our ten-year strategy (2022-2032), Together for social justice, sets out our bold agenda to increase equality and strengthen rights at scale. Our three big issues are law, climate and investment:
We combine our role of influencing national policy directly, with equipping others to create change on these issues within their own areas of influence. This includes building their strategic communications expertise and practice-change programmes.
