“When discrimination is built into systems, silence is complicity.”

From schools and workplaces to healthcare and government, institutional discrimination shapes people’s lives every day. We are here to challenge it head-on.

Why This Matters

Discrimination isn’t just personal — it’s structural. Institutions, whether intentionally or not, often embed practices that exclude or disadvantage entire groups of people.

  • Disabled people denied healthcare treatments or reasonable adjustments.

  • Black, Asian, and minority ethnic communities over-policed and under-protected.

  • LGBTQ+ people facing systemic barriers to housing, employment, or equal healthcare.

  • Women and gender-diverse people locked out of leadership opportunities.

When these patterns go unchallenged, they become normalised — and generations grow up believing inequality is just “the way things are.”

How We’re Creating Change

At Living Reasons, we refuse to accept discrimination as a given. We challenge the systems that perpetuate it and campaign for change that dismantles inequality.

We’re focusing on:

  • Identifying discriminatory practices within public and private institutions.

  • Amplifying lived experience stories that expose systemic inequality.

  • Campaigning for reforms that challenge discrimination in law, policy, and practice.

  • Partnering with organisations to build anti-discrimination frameworks.

Using research and data to prove the human and economic cost of discrimination.

Projects & Campaigns

  • Opportunity Watch Project | monitoring institutions for discriminatory practices, barriers and unconscious bias.

  • Challenge It Campaign | encouraging individuals and groups to call out institutional discrimination with support and productive solution focused promotions.

  • Lived Reality Reports | research reports & publishing Advisory Board insights into systemic inequality.

  • Disputes & Complaints Support | online & over the phone support project to support including complaint assistance when discrimination has played a role in unfair treatment or restricted access to services.

The Role of Lived Experience

Our Lived Experience Advisory Board ensures this work reflects real experiences of discrimination, not assumptions. Members share stories of exclusion, challenge policies that fail people, and help us shape campaigns that expose systemic injustice.

By joining the Board, you can use your lived experience to make discrimination visible — and impossible to ignore.

Get Involved

Together, we can dismantle institutional discrimination. Here’s how you can help:

  • Share your experience of systemic barriers.