The Fair Education Alliance

Who we are

The Fair Education Alliance (FEA) unites 300 member organisations under a shared vision that no child’s success is limited by their socioeconomic background. 

Our members (charities and social enterprises, think tanks, businesses and foundations, youth organisations, unions, universities and schools) are working collectively to create an inclusive system. We exist to close the gap in educational outcomes between children from low-income households and their wealthier peers.

Autumn 2025, we’re kicking off our next strategic phase, which will take our work from neighbourhood to national, building a movement for systems change towards a fairer future for children and young people. 

We achieve change through the following types of activities:

A unified collective mission for vision and action

We help our members speak with one voice for the benefit of children and young people from low-income families. We do this through developing joint responses, inputting into government strategy, and uniting our members to produce policy recommendations such as Fair Education in 2024: Priorities for a New Government.

Connectivity and coordination across the ecosystem

We bring our members together to coordinate and strengthen everyone’s work. We do this through our Collective Action working groups, weekly bulletin, Annual Summit and our Digital Membership Tools (Member Directory and interactive Ecosystem Map which help members to collaborate and target their work. This map also supports policymakers to get a view of current activity and impact, and supports regional collaboration, bringing transparency and connection to those working in the same place.

Diverse leadership of the collective agenda

We believe our work must include and reflect the people it seeks to serve. Young people are crucial to this. We work with our Youth Steering Group to influence the system and policy change they want to see, and we build the capacity of the education sector to improve their youth engagement practice.

Systemic and need-based scaling strategies

We run two awards to nurture new ideas and scale impactful solutions to address inequality in education. The Awards provide our portfolio of Award Winners with salary and intensive support to develop, test and scale their initiatives to the areas of greatest need. 

Equality, diversity and inclusion policy

We are committed to recruiting a workforce that reflects the population and will prioritise applications from historically underrepresented people, including from black and minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, those from working class backgrounds, and people who have experienced other forms of exclusion or marginalisation. We want to cultivate a fair and inclusive environment, where everyone can be themselves and thrive. We have tried to make this recruitment process as accessible as possible but know that there might be more that we can do, particularly if you have experienced exclusion, disadvantage or discrimination, or if you have particular accessibility needs. We would be happy to provide further support that you may require - please get in touch with us via [email protected] if you would like to discuss with us.