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      <image:caption>The Bridge Group celebrates ten years since we registered as a charity, Nov 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The launch of our research study, 'Building for the Future: Socio-economic diversity and inclusion in UK Real Estate' 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The launch of our research study, 'Building for the Future: Socio-economic diversity and inclusion in UK Real Estate' 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Homepage blog - Bridge Group celebrates 10 years of using research to promote social equality</image:title>
      <image:caption>The launch of our research study, 'Building for the Future: Socio-economic diversity and inclusion in UK Real Estate' 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Homepage blog - Bridge Group celebrates 10 years of using research to promote social equality</image:title>
      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>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?</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hollie Crompton, a Senior Associate at PwC, talks at our 2023 webinar on Online Outreach.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Janine Chamberlin, UK Country Manager at LinkedIn, talks at our 2021 webinar on ‘Graduate recruitment in a post Covid-19 world.’</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Guests from JLL, RICS, and LSBU join Nik Miller at our webinar to advance D&amp;I in real estate and architecture, 2021.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead (Director-General, BBC between 2013 and 2020) gives the Welcome Address at our 2019 Conference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Professor Sam Friedman, a Bridge Group fellow and sociologist of class and inequality, talks at the Bridge Group Conference in 2018.</image:caption>
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