Our latest event in partnership with the Financial Times in March 2025

Meet People Like Us, and help foster a fairer workplace for all


People Like Us is an award-winning not-for-profit dedicated to celebrating and supporting UK professionals from Black, Asian, Mixed Race, and minoritised ethnic backgrounds. Our mission is to elevate ethnically diverse professionals by dismantling workplace barriers and providing support to navigate these challenges through community events and tailored career support.

People Like Us has long campaigned for ethnicity pay gap reporting, and is pleased to see mandatory ethnicity pay gap reporting is now in consultation. However, there is still work to be done to ensure it becomes fully enshrined in legislation. We are here to support people until that happens and beyond.

Our Latest Campaign Work

People with ethnically diverse names have to send 60% more applications to get a job interview.

It’s time to #NametheBias.

Why We Exist, in Numbers

Ethnic Minority Pay Gap

Workers from ethnically diverse backgrounds earn on average 9.2% less than their white British counterparts, according to the ONS.

Source: Office for National Statistics, 2023

Lack of Representation in Senior Roles

Just 13% of senior management positions in FTSE 100 companies are held by individuals from ethnic minority backgrounds — despite these groups making up around 18% of the UK population.

Source: Parker Review, 2023

Discrimination in the Workplace

Over 70% of ethnic minority workers have experienced racial harassment at work in the last five years

Source: TUC, 2022

UPCOMING EVENTS

People Like Us Summer event (coming soon)

Celebrating extraordinary media,marketing & communications talent from minority ethnic backgrounds, with 10 speakers given 3 minutes eachto share their story.

Speaker slots open in April

What’s New?

Hyphen

Q&A with Sheeraz Gulsher ‘Tackling the ethnicity pay gap is the first step to making work fair for all’

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The Times

Celebrate differences in your team and reflect your customer base

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The Spill

Breaking cycles: confronting the surge of racism and hate in Britain

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Testimonials