The Equality Trust

Who we are

The Equality Trust (TET) was founded in 2009 by leading experts in economic inequality, Professors Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson and Bill Kerry. We are the national charity with the ambition to improve the quality of life for everyone through dismantling structural inequalities, providing and disseminating original research, campaigning, empowering individuals and working with key stakeholders - businesses, local councils, academics and trade unions - to achieve lasting change. Since 2009, we have shifted the narrative towards widespread recognition that structural inequalities are at the root of many of the issues we seek to address as a society, nationally and globally. We focus on inequalities of income, wealth and power, and their various intersections. 

Managing to reduce economic inequality would have significant public benefit, through enhanced wellbeing, health and social outcomes for all. 

Looking ahead, the rapid increase in the speed and scale of actions required to reduce the risks of climate change will create new economic opportunities. It is imperative that the transition is founded on models that are as fair and inclusive as possible, leaving no one behind.

Our primary activities are to harness social power to challenge, influence and change corporate power and political power in order to reduce social and economic inequality so that we can all flourish.