Social inequality is persistent and systematic. Often where you start in life is where you’ll end up.
Together we can change this.
Our mission
We’re on a mission to promote collaboration between employers, The State and Third Sector to address the issues faced by those from low-income backgrounds entering the workforce.
We want this to be the place where you can find out, in one place, what the issues are, who is doing something about them and how you can get involved no matter who you are or where you are in the UK.
Sir Kenneth Olisa and Helen Mahy
Employer's Social Mobility Alliance Co-Chairs
Our Commitments
Life stages research
Create a consolidated and easily accessible appraisal of the existing academic research relating to the issues affecting an individual’s social mobility from cradle to retirement.
Read researchActivity Heat Map
Conduct a review of Business, State and Third Sector efforts across the UK to combat the issues identified in Life Stages Research and produce an open source digital heat map to enable users of the ESMA site to identify how they can collaborate with existing provision to maximise impact.
Coming September 2021Find out more
Best Practice
Conduct an operational appraisal of the organisations and initiatives mapped in the Activity Heat Map and suggest how they could increase operational efficiency through collaboration locally and nationally.
Coming September 2021Find out moreIncubator Fund
We are creating a Social Mobility Incubator fund, to allow radical and impactful ideas to scale quickly across the UK. This can happen through licensing of best practice materials or enabling exemplar initiatives to grow their impact.
Coming soon
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