Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Our impact is through people. We partner with organisations within the charity and beyond profit sector to engage and appoint diverse, mission-driven talent.

At Prospectus we understand our leadership role as recruiters and advisors in building diverse and inclusive organisations, and will challenge and champion diversity and inclusion at all levels both externally and internally.

As the UK’s first B Corp recruitment agency, Prospectus is committed to driving Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in everything we do. Our latest statistics highlight our dedication to creating equitable recruitment outcomes for the not-for-profit sector

Our Candidate Stats

Transparent reporting on our EDI performance not only drives accountability but helps us partner effectively with clients who share our values. Together, we are building workplaces that reflect the diversity of the communities they serve.

The below EDI data details the diversity of our placed candidates we supported from September 2024 to September 2025, covering 23,500 respondents.

We use “global majority” to refer to all ethnic groups except white British and other white groups, including white minorities. These statistics are correct as of November 2025.

Celebrating Progress

We are particularly proud of the significant increase in our global majority placements, which have grown from 21% to 27% since December 2024. This increase reflects our sustained commitment to expanding opportunity and actively partnering with diverse talent.

Our Commitment to Accessibility

We believe in leading by example to ensure that job opportunities are accessible to all and are continually working to remove barriers and create truly inclusive recruitment experiences. Recent initiatives include:

Refreshing our website and job board to enhance accessibility and meet WCAG standards.
Embedding the Disability Confident scheme throughout our recruitment processes.
Ensuring all candidates have access to reasonable adjustments from application through to placement.

Our commitment remains strong, and we strive to deliver a complete and comprehensive update every six months.

Built on purpose, powered by partnership

Prospectus stats

Prospectus

30%

From the global majority

5%

Declared a disability

20%

LGBT+

55%

Women

Management

28%

From the global majority

0%

Declared a disability

21%

LGBT+

64%

Women

EDI Commitments

We have established an EDI group to help support our own learning and challenge how we grow and develop in relation to EDI.

Publicly sharing our data biannually on both our internal team diversity stats as well as those of our candidate base for our consultancy arm.
Develop a better understanding of how diverse candidates progress through a recruitment process from application to placement.
Offering all clients alternative application methods based on individual applicant needs, including accessible appointment briefs.
Committing to offering all clients a diversity report on any role delivered through our consultancy.

Any statistics generated are done in a granular way – e.g. not grouping people of colour into a category and ensuring a full breakdown of ethnicity/sex/gender, etc. is recorded.
Our ongoing ambition is that a minimum of 50% of those we place into the sector are female, 30% are from the global majority and 10% are disabled.
Commitment to being an anti-racist organisation. You can read our full Anti-Racism Statement here.

Partnerships

The Business in the Community

Inclusive recruitment Opening doors

In March 2022 Prospectus signed up to BITC’s five principles for inclusive recruitment. We have found these principles and the actions underpinning them an invaluable guide to focus on and develop our recruitment practices in this area.

The principles are:

Principle 1: Create partnerships which connect people from disadvantaged groups to your jobs
Principle 2: Show candidates that you’re committed to inclusion
Principle 3: Make sure job descriptions and adverts are comprehensive and use inclusive language
Principle 4: Focus on the essential skills and capabilities that are needed to do the job
Principle 5: Prioritise accessibility and eliminate bias
Our ongoing ambition is that a minimum of 50% of those we place into the sector are female, 30% are from the global majority and 10% are disabled.
Commitment to being an anti-racist organisation. You can read our full Anti-Racism Statement here.

Race at Work Charter

Business in the Community’s Race at Work Charter is a campaign for race equality in the workplace. Prospectus is signed up to the charter and can access tailored practical advice alongside BITC’s insights to drive long-term change.

Charityworks

Charityworks – the UK beyond profit sector’s graduate programme, open to all charities wanting to find great graduate talent in an affordable way. They recruit talented graduates from UK universities, receiving over 5,500 applications each year, to undertake a 12-month real role at a beyond profit organisation, and deliver an acclaimed leadership development programme contextualised to the sector. In 2020 Charityworks leapt from 7% to 30% people of colour representation this year, and at the moment the cohort is shaping up to look more than 1 in 2 people of colour.

Prospectus supports Charityworks with mentoring, career support and recruiting charity partners.

Show the Salary

Prospectus is proud to support the Show the Salary campaign and has signed the pledge to show the salary in role advertisements. Research shows that by advertising the salary for a role it helps improve application rates for women, Black people and people of colour as well as increasing the salary rate they are offered for a role, which will support closing the salary gap.

Prospectus signed the pledge in October 2020.

Accreditations

B Corp

Prospectus is proud to be a certified B Corp.

The B Corp movement in the UK is an exciting, growing and engaged network of organisations that are certified to meet rigorous standards across all stakeholders, including social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

Learn more about our B Corp status here.

Disability Confident Employer

Disability Confident is creating a movement of change, encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain and develop disabled people. It was developed by employers’ and disabled people’s representatives to make it rigorous but easily accessible.

There are 3 levels and Prospectus is currently Disability Confident Employer (Level 2). We are currently working proactively to become a Disability Confident Leader (Level 3), the top level under the scheme.

Clear Company

Clear Company offer innovative, memorable training designed to implement consistency and best practice at all levels using:

A combination of theoretical and skills-based learning
Relatable content that everyone can apply to their role
Encourages personal action planning and accountability
Accredited programmes approach – testing knowledge transfer to reinforce the impact of the programme
Post Learning support for those requiring additional coaching to be successful
The entire Prospectus team – including non-client/candidate facing team members – is currently going through this accredited training programme.

Living Wage

Prospectus has been an accredited Living Wage Employer since 2014 and this applies not only for the team directly employed by Prospectus but also our immediate supply chain, including cleaners, IT support and office suppliers.