The following report is testament to the collective effort of numerous people across Nesta. Since we began our journey, we have endeavoured to embed equity, diversity and inclusion through every facet of our organisation; with this in mind, we want to acknowledge and thank all of those who have been part of building this year's report:

Fede Andreis, Genna Barnett, Simona Capogna, Leo Chandler, Shae Harmon, Elspeth Kirkman, Christiana Markou, Simran Motiani, Sinead Mutale Mushibwe, Nathan Nalla (Be the Riot), Chris Norris, Ann Paul, Hassan Pesaran, Maja Podrzaj, Georgina Roberts, Mia Simmons, Camille Stengel, Louis Stupple-Harris, Cate Urbano, Gail Vencker and Luca Zingale.

Introduction

Our nine-goal equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategy, launched in March 2021, set ambitious and measurable targets to help tackle some of society's biggest challenges in inclusion – both inside and outside the workplace.

For each of our goals, we use a data-led approach to help us track our progress and identify where we must continue to invest effort to we meet our commitments and live up to our values.

As an organisation, we believe that holding ourselves publicly accountable is imperative to the ongoing success of the strategy. We therefore publish our progress and reflections each year, in this annual EDI report. While there isn’t a playbook for advancing equity and belonging, we hope that our experience provides reasons for optimism and useful learnings for many others who share our values and ambitions.