We have three types of organisational membership that offer different levels of participation and benefit.
1. Members
Our full membership is open to national not-for-profit organisations and networks working on equality, human rights, and broader social justice issues from a rights-based perspective. And to regional and local organisations working on these issues at national policy level (for example contributing evidence to national Government consultations).
Your specific benefits:
- Consulted on joint influencing strategies and public policy positions and automatically included as a signatory to consultation responses and parliamentary briefings (opting out where appropriate on a case-by-case basis)
- Formally members of the charity, members play an important role in governance, including eligibility to stand as a Trustee and vote in Board elections
- Opportunity to join our Policy Influencing Working Group
- Participation in our influential members’ meetings on current policy issues. Guest speakers include Secretaries of State, government officials, opinion formers and experts
- Networking, collaboration and access to policymakers
- Invitation to our annual gathering of member CEOs and Chairs to discuss and shape strategy
- Priority for participation in our practice-change programmes
- Priority invites to other high-profile and strategic events, including policy roundtables, and research briefings and seminars to share new findings and expertise
- Free recruitment advertising on our website and through our newsletter
- All our publications and mailings.
Given the automatic inclusion as signatory and the governance role, this membership is most suited to organisations or networks where there’s a significant level of synergy in terms of our priorities and approach, set out in our ten-year strategy, Together for social justice, and in our five-year influencing strategy.
The annual membership subscription fee is on a sliding scale according to your organisation’s annual income:
- Over £5m: £1,500
- £1.5m – £5m: £500
- £500k – £1.5m: £300
- Up to £500k: £200
- Under £50k: free
Thinking of joining Equally Ours as a member organisation? Find out how to apply, and email us at info@equallyours.org.uk to arrange a chat with us.
2. Associates
Our associate membership is open to any not-for-profit organisation working on equality, human rights, and broader social justice issues nationally, regionally or locally.
Associates receive most of the same benefits as members, but they can only contribute views and evidence to feed into – not decide – shared priorities and public policy positions, do not play a role in governance of the network, and don’t have priority for participation in our events and practice-change programmes.
This category is more suited to organisations whose work is less closely aligned with ours and who therefore prefer to opt-in on a case by case basis to shared policy positions, or who support equality and human rights but focus mainly on issues that we do not work on, or do not take a rights-based approach in their own work.
The annual associate subscription fee according to organisational income is:
- Over £5m: £750
- £1.5m – £5m: £200
- £500K – £1.5m: £100
- Up to £500k: £50
- Under £50k: free
Thinking of joining Equally Ours as an associate organisation? Find out how to apply, and email us at info@equallyours.org.uk to arrange a chat with us.
3. Observers
Our observers are government departments, statutory bodies, institutions and other organisations who have an interest in human rights, equality, and social justice. They are invited to our meetings and other events and receive all our publications and mailings.
Thinking becoming an Equally Ours observer? Find our how to apply, and email us at info@equallyours.org.uk to arrange a chat with us.