Membership of Equally Ours means that you will be part of a powerful nationwide movement to advance equality and human rights for everyone in the UK and be better equipped to achieve change in your own areas of influence and operation.
Our model is based on reciprocity between us and our members. The support we offer to our network is built around three core benefits.
Policy advocacy on shared priorities
- We develop and advocate for shared priorities and shared policy positions, to which all our members can contribute.
- We undertake thinking and research you might not have the capacity for: covering intersectional and pan-equality perspectives, to identify causes and solutions.
- We inform policy and decision-making, guided by expertise and knowledge from our members, seeking to build bridges between diverse points of view.
Collaboration and networking
- We bring together people and organisations in a collaborative, constructive and respectful forum where you can inspire, support and learn from one other.
- We provide opportunities for constructive engagement with the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), the Office for Equality and Opportunity and other government departments and policymakers. And we connect you with wider influencing networks.
Organisational effectiveness
- We equip you to have greater influence and achieve change in your own areas of operation, through our policy analysis, strategic communications and practice-change programmes.
- We amplify your voices and priorities on issues that are specific to your cause, where appropriate and in line with our mission and values principles.
- We provide a platform where you can proactively provide your expertise to contribute to public policy development.
- We keep you up to date with policy, equality and human rights developments to keep you informed of what is happening in the wider equality and human rights sector and how this may affect your work.
How you would support the network
You would support the network by:
- Bringing your organisation’s expertise, knowledge, research and lived experience evidence, which inform our public policy and advocacy work.
- Providing evidence of disregard for human rights and the structural causes of inequality and of the need for structural solutions to these problems
- Contributing to the development of shared public policy positions, solutions and recommendations.
- Coming together to form a powerful collective voice which shows that the changes we advocate for matter to the majority, not a minority, of people.
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