Race Equality Week 2026: A Chance to Make a Difference at Work
This blog was originally posted on pcs.org.uk.
Evga writes about the importance of Race Equality Week, how you can get involved and invites you to join the online event looking at how LGBT+ people from racial minorities backgrounds often face overlapping forms of discrimination.
Over the last few years, Race Equality Week has become one of the most dynamic moments in the UK’s inclusion calendar, bringing organisations and individuals together to turn intention into meaningful action.
This year’s Race Equality Week is between 2–8 February 2026, and it is a chance for all of us to pause, reflect, and take action on race equality in our workplaces.
Led by co-ordinating organisation Race Equality Matters and centred on the theme #ChangeNeedsAllOfUs, the week reminds us that real change happens when people come together and speak up.
Union members work in many different organisations, but the challenges around race equality are often shared. That’s what makes this week such a powerful opportunity.
How to get involved
Something as simple as encouraging people to take part in the 5-Day Challenge can spark important conversations about bias, inclusion, and allyship. The 5-Day Challenge has five different activities to engage in over five days, helping employees reflect and, more importantly, take action to drive race equality. Each daily activity takes just five minutes; a few minutes a day can go a long way.
Use the week to organise an informal lunchtime chat or listening session. Create space for colleagues to share experiences and feel heard. These conversations often highlight where things are working well, and where change is still needed in the workplace.
Race Equality Week is also a good moment to raise workplace issues that matter: fair recruitment, progression, disciplinary processes, and representation. It’s a chance to gather views, ask questions, and work collectively to push for improvements.
Sharing Race Equality Week resources or posting a message of support on your social media using the hashtag #ChangeNeedsAllOfUs can help show that race equality is everyone’s business, not just something talked about once a year.
PCS Proud Race Equality Week event
PCS Proud is holding an event during Race Equality Week because we recognise that race equality and LGBT+ equality are deeply connected. LGBT+ people from racial minorities backgrounds often face overlapping forms of discrimination, and their voices are too often unheard.
Join the PCS Proud national committee online on 6 February 2026, 12–1pm, featuring speakers from PCS Proud, the PCS national black members’ committee, and the TUC. Together, we’ll explore race equality through an intersectional lens and discuss how unions can better support members facing multiple inequalities at work.
For trade unions, Race Equality Week isn’t just about awareness. It’s about solidarity, collective action, and keeping race equality firmly on the workplace agenda, this week and every week.