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• Break Down Barriers to Opportunity

  Giving children the best start in life.

  • Updated: 5 December 2024
• Women's Business Council refreshed to help break down barriers for opportunity for women at work

  The Women's Business Council (WBC) brings together business leaders who work to boost women’s representation in the workplace.

  • Updated: 9 September 2025
• New Opportunities Fund

  The New Opportunities Fund was established in 1998 to distribute funds from the National Lottery to health, education and environmental projects. It was merged into the Big Lotter Fund in 2004 and was formally dissolved in 2006.

  • Updated: 15 April 2021
• Office for Equality and Opportunity

  We lead on equality policy including women’s equality, race equality, LGBT+ equality, disability equality, socio-economic equality and the overall framework of equality legislation for the UK. OEO works with the Cabinet Office .

  • Updated: 17 October 2024
• Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) programme

  Work and Opportunities for Women (WOW) was the FCDO-funded women’s economic empowerment programme from 2017 to 2025.

  • Updated: 14 February 2025
• Find overseas customers and export opportunities

  Find potential overseas buyers for your products and services. Get help selling online overseas. Get help from a trade specialist.
• Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: some international comparisons

  This paper presents a comparison of ex-ante measures of inequality of economic opportunity and the Human Opportunity Index

  • Updated: 1 January 2013
• Opportunity areas grant: S31 grant determination and letters

  Additional funding for local authorities to improve social mobility for children and young people in deprived areas.

  • Updated: 14 April 2022
• Opportunity is not enough. Chronic Poverty Update.
  • Updated: 1 January 2003
• Inequality of Opportunity During the Great Recession in Uganda
  • Updated: 1 January 2015