Equality Trust

Thanks to hundreds of amazing supporters we only have 7k of matched funding left to raise before midday Tuesday.

Please help us reach our goal so we can continue our work tackling inequalities in 2026 🙌🏻✨

"What's the most commonly overheard phrase of the moment? Everything is broken." Equality is a long road, but there's hope. Our Co-Executive Director Priya Sahni-Nicholas on why we can win with your help: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0?utm_campaign=a05WS000006FaMIYA0-video

Thanks to your generosity, we've raised £26,240 of our £50,000 goal with the Big Give Christmas Challenge! We're over halfway – and anything you can donate by 12pm December 9th will be doubled! Donate now: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0?utm_campaign=a05WS000006FaMIYA0-socials

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

Last week we published a report showing the super rich are using their wealth to buy huge political influence over the UK through political donations, control of the media, and Lords.
Here's some ways we've been proven right since 🧵

The UK inequality crisis is harming us all – Big Give Equality Trust fights extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power. This inequality harms health, breaks communities, fuels the climate crisis …

Donate now and we'll double it!

Billionaires don't need more money next year, but we do. We're trying to raise the funds we need to campaign for wealth taxes, power over our own political and economic systems, and real investment in people and planet.

The UK inequality crisis is harming us all – Big Give Equality Trust fights extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power. This inequality harms health, breaks communities, fuels the climate crisis …

Support the charity that Apollo evidently hit with the gift of prophecy this week while we're doubling all donations:

Peer suspended from House of Lords was allegedly paid $1m in ‘corrupt’ deal Lord Evans of Watford and other directors of investment firm deny claims made in lawsuits they say are ‘meritless’

The peer who was suspended from the House of Lords last week for breaking lobbying rules, Lord Evans of Watford, is today accused of taking £760,000 in payments from corrupt deals in Kazakhstan:

Move over, Murdoch: will Lord Rothermere be Britain’s most powerful media mogul? The Daily Mail owner has the Telegraph titles in his sights as part of a long-held ambition to create a dominant stable of rightwing newspapers

Lord Rothermere, the owner of the Daily Mail, is trying to buy the Telegraph to create an ever-greater of concentration of the media in his hands:
(also it was revealed today that his wife also recently donated £50k to Reform)

Crypto investor Christopher Harborne donates record £9m to Reform UK The sum from Christopher Harborne is the largest ever single donation by a living person to a British political party.

Today, a crypto and private jet millionaire made the largest ever donation to a political party from a single living person by giving £9m to Reform, a party that's been promoting cryptocurrency (wonder if that's related)

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

Last week we published a report showing the super rich are using their wealth to buy huge political influence over the UK through political donations, control of the media, and Lords.
Here's some ways we've been proven right since 🧵

Oh man, we weren't expecting to be proved right this quickly:

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

We definitely weren't expecting to be proved right so quickly
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Chart showing England and Wales land ownership in 2018: Aristocracy 30%, Corporations 18%, Oligarchs & Bankers 18%, Unregistered 17%, Public Sector 8.5%, Homeowners 5%, conservation charities 2%, and the Crown Estate 1.4%. Data from Guy Shrubsole, 2018.

Inequality is in every part of the UK down to the land under our feet. We need equally deep structural change to fight it: that's why the Equality Trust exists.
We need to raise £50,000 to keep fighting: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0?utm_campaign=a05WS000006FaMIYA0-socials

The Leaky War: How Rachel Reeves and the OBR fell out Rachel Reeves has clashed with the OBR following various Budget leaks and a resignation. Who won The Leaky War?

The OBR has too much power, creating a democratic deficit when it comes to fiscal policymaking.

Dominic Caddick spoke to @cityam.bsky.social👇
www.cityam.com/the-leaky-wa...

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

This 🔽 is the sort of vital work that the @equalitytrust.bsky.social does as they work to highlight the harm of excessive #inequality in the UK today... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The UK inequality crisis is harming us all – Big Give Equality Trust fights extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power. This inequality harms health, breaks communities, fuels the climate crisis …

📢 WE'VE JUST DONATED to the @equalitytrust.bsky.social Big Give fundraiser to support their excellent work in highlighting and tackling #inequality. Please consider donating if you can. Match-funding will DOUBLE your donation in the next 5 days or so. Thank You ♥️ donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

A green orb with the face of Elon Musk looms over the image from the top right, with the orbital slogan "Fight billionaires. Win equality." Underneath, the logo of the Big Give Christmas challenge reminds you that all donations are doubled if you donate from 2 Dec to 9 December.

Profiteers don't need your money next year. We do.
We're trying to raise £50k to stay in the fight against inequality and the billionaires trying to impose their whims on our society.
The good news: we're doubling everything donated this week: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0

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Thanks to your support, we've raised over £10,000 in less than 24 hours! It's our best start to the Big Give Christmas Challenge ever ✨
This is people power! Let's keep going to win equality! 💪🏾
Donate now and we'll double it: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0

Headline paraphrased from from The Guardian about the ultra-rich influencing British politics through donations, media control, and House of Lords appointments.

Unlike millionaires, we can't just pay for our opinions to be on the front page. But with your help, we're changing the conversation anyway.
Don't let them stop us! If you donate today, we'll double it. That's twice the headlines next year!
👉https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0

Graphic showing a portrait of UK billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik with text stating that his wealth, alone, would be enough to end homelessness. He doesn't done this, obviously. Instead, he's spent money lobbying for Israel.

Our system is broken. A tiny number of people have gotten obscenely wealthy at our expense, used that money to warp democracy in their favour, and locked us into crisis.
We need to win this fight – right now, if you can donate, we'll double it.
https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0

This year, with your help, our calls for the Chancellor to tax the banks in her autumn budget made it onto the front pages 🗞️

Can you donate this #GivingTuesday to help us keep pushing the government for a fairer economy next year?

Donate here 👉 bit.ly/PoMoGivingTue...

The UK inequality crisis is harming us all – Big Give Equality Trust fights extreme inequalities in income, wealth and power. This inequality harms health, breaks communities, fuels the climate crisis …

📢 PLEASE SUPPORT @equalitytrust.bsky.social and their essential work tackling #inequality during this Big Give Week if you can 🔽. Any donation you make will be DOUBLED‼️
Thank You ♥️ donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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We need you 🫵
Starting right now, we'll double any donation you make through the Big Give Christmas Challenge! If you've ever wanted to fight for a more equal UK, right now, your impact is doubled.
Donate now: https://donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05WS000006FaMIYA0

Inequality is visibly hurting us all. How can any communities exist, let alone thrive, when they're literally walled off from each other?
https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2025/dec/01/posh-poor-divide-the-rise-in-areas-of-england-where-wealth-and-deprivation-appear-side-by-side

on UK Corruption, from @equalitytrust.bsky.social
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equalitytrust.org.uk/evidence-bas...

‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media ownership affect political decisions

Read more about the report in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Quote by Louis D. Brandeis from 1933, reading "We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both."

We should all be worried about the way that inequality is eating away at our communities, society, and democracy. It's led to bad governance, with policy only serving the interests of a narrow elite, and it's led to public trust in our system collapsing.

Graph showing increasing concentration of political power in the UK from 2000 to 2025

Combine that with a growing House of Lords and more and more powerful unelected figures shaping policy at the highest levels, and you get a country that's been getting more politically unequal since 2000.