Our research shows the impact of wealth gaps in Cambridge:
• unaffordable housing
• rising hunger
• social care cuts bite
• 11 year health gap
We think Cambridge can do better.
We believe Cambridge can be a beacon of fairness.
Our city needs a radical blueprint for change.
Our Projects
What we're doing to challenge inequality and unfairness in Cambridge
Education
Raising awareness of the harm inequality does
Pay & Wealth
Promoting fairer pay scales and an inequality fund
Our Events
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Cambridge Blue, 85-87 Gwydir Street
The Cambridge Commons AGM
Thursday 11 October 2018
Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane
Latest Video
Tamasin Cave on corporate lobbying
Blog – Austerity, austerity, austerity
Universal credit began its roll out in Cambridge on 17th October, gradually to start off with, just new claims or people whose circumstances change. The full-scale transfer of all those on the relevant unemployment and in work benefits will come later. A few days later the government used their autumn budget to declare the beginning
Blog – Inequality in Britain ‘bleak’ according to public body
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC) report ‘Is Britain Fairer?’ was released last week in pre-publication format. You can download the report here – https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/publication-download/britain-fairer-2018 The report outlines how inequalities are continuing to blight British society; suggesting some groups within our society are being ‘forgotten or left behind’. Producing this report is a statutory
Promoting equality in Cambridge: our AGM with Robert Porrer
It’s been a significant year in the life of The Cambridge Commons and our AGM this past Thursday was an opportunity to take stock. In just 12 months we have: run 17 events in the imagine2027 series with 3,000+ seat reservations built a mailing list of 1,300+ supporters of greater equality run a forum for