PPU membership survey 2021

The 2021 membership survey is now closed. Thank you very much to all those who completed it.

Taking a lead from our members

The PPU aims to be an organisation where all voices are heard and all individuals feel valued and welcome. We aspire for the PPU to be a warm, safe, open and courageous space (both physical and virtual) for all members, volunteers, Council members and potential participants, in line with, and going beyond, the Equality Act 2010.

We have developed a membership survey because we want to hear about the issues that you consider the PPU should prioritise; we want to learn how we can better support your engagement with the PPU and we want to better understand the composition of our membership.

We would love to hear more about you. 

Why are we asking questions about the composition of our membership?

At the PPU AGM in February 2020 the existing Equality and Respect Policy was reviewed in small group discussions. In response to some of the feedback given at the AGM we established a Diversity & Inclusion working group and developed a new strategy.

The PPU aims to actively engage in the process of diversifying its membership, staff and Council through unpicking structural discrimination and regularly measuring change to inclusive practice. However, the PPU does not currently hold any diversity data relating to its members and supporters. The development of this survey is an active step toward including a range of voices and perspectives within the organisation.

We recognise at the PPU that the society we live in is unjust and unequal. Not all people have their needs heard and met. Structural racism, sexism, ableism and inequality exclude many from participating in organisations such as PPU. These discriminatory systems, that centre certain experiences and de-centre others, are often unconscious and unacknowledged and as such continue to prevent individual and dissenting voices having a platform.

We hope to better understand the composition of our Membership as a result of this survey. The data obtained will inform our priorities at the PPU. It will also be used to consider how to reach a broader membership-base over time and progress will be reviewed regularly.