Bridge Group celebrates 10 years of using research to promote social equality

10 years since we registered as a charity

We’ll be celebrating until June 2026

In 2009, six volunteers resolved to stop discussing social equality, and to do something about it. The result was the Bridge Group, which convened researchers and expert practitioners to inform policy papers.

In June 2015, the Bridge Group registered as an independent research charity promoting socio-economic inclusion through evidence, insight and collaboration. We are celebrating this tenth anniversary throughout the year until June 2026.

Anniversary blogs

“The Bridge Group exists because opportunity should be earned, not inherited – and because evidence, when used well, can build a world where more people realise their potential.”

Read the blog from our outgoing CEO, Nik Miller, here.

Celebratory event

On 25 November, the Bridge Group was overjoyed to be joined by our most valued clients, funders, partners, trustees and staff to celebrate ten years since we registered as a charity.

Slaughter and May generously hosted the evening at their offices in London, in which our inspirational speakers so concisely expressed our collective need to extend the benefits of socio-economic inclusion even further. The message was clear: “The world needs more Bridge Group!”

You can read the report that was launched on the evening ‘Turning evidence into opportunity’ and view a selection of the photographs here.

An image showing a timeline of the Bridge Group., from 2009 to 2025, to celebrate ten years of turning evidence into opportunity — Click on the image to read some of the highlights since the Bridge Group was conceived. We have worked with many organisations over the years. The research mentioned here is a very small sample.

Some of our people and places

The Bridge Group celebrates ten years since we registered as a charity, Nov 2025.

Presenters and panel at the launch of our collaborative research with eight law firms to identify effective practices to enhance socio-economic inclusion, Nov 2025.

Members of the Bridge Group team outside the Bank of England, where new data for UK financial services was released by the Bridge Group and Progress Together, Oct 2025.

The staff team celebrate as the Bridge Group is accredited as a Living Wage Employer, June 2025.

The complete staff team at our Away Day in June 2025.

The launch of our research study, 'Building for the Future: Socio-economic diversity and inclusion in UK Real Estate' 2025.

Nik Miller presents the data at the 2024 CEO / ExCo roundtable, organised by Progress Together, which outlines the progress made by member firms in financial services.

The Bridge Group's Senior Researcher (Qualitive Analysis), Dr Aleksandra Kubica, talks about the reasons why we use qualitative methods in one of our video clips.

Staff and trustees in 2024.

Dr Helen Wareham, former Senior Data Analyst at the Bridge Group, explains in a video clip why we use specific markers of socio-economic background, 2024.

Sarah Atkinson, CEO of the SMF, shared insights in our joint webinar in 2023: Why should we report a class pay gap and how should we do it?

Hollie Crompton, a Senior Associate at PwC, talks at our 2023 webinar on Online Outreach.

Senda Kavindele, from KPMG, at our 2022 webinar 'Promoting talent.'

Janine Chamberlin, UK Country Manager at LinkedIn, talks at our 2021 webinar on ‘Graduate recruitment in a post Covid-19 world.’

Guests from JLL, RICS, and LSBU join Nik Miller at our webinar to advance D&I in real estate and architecture, 2021.

Staff get together after a team meeting, 2020.

André Flemmings, Bridge Group Trustee, and senior professional in legal D&I, talks at the 2020 report launch: 'Socio-economic diversity and progression to partner in the law.'

Our name in lights: The Bridge Group Conference, 2019.

The panel debate at the Bridge Group Conference, 2019. With Professor Danny Dorling, Polly Toynbee, Dr Sam Friedman, Christina Blacklaws, and Emran Mian.

Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (Director-General, BBC between 2013 and 2020) gives the Welcome Address at our 2019 Conference.

John Amaechi, OBE (Psychologist and author) forms part of the panel to debate ‘Advancing socio-economic diversity and inclusion’ at our 2019 Conference.

Professor Danny Dorling (University of Oxford) gives the Keynote at our 2019 Conference.

The panel debate at our conference in 2019. With Gordon Marsden MP, Mary Curnock Cook OBE, Professor Vikki Boliver and Professor Tim Blackman.

Polly Toynbee, Author, Journalist and Broadcaster, speaks at our conference in 2019.

David Latchman CBE, Master of Birkbeck College, speaks at our conference in 2018.

The Rt Honourable Alan Milburn, current Chancellor of Lancaster University and chair of the Social Mobility Foundation, speaks at our conference, 2018.