But it's also a tool to build equality over the long-term. In Wales and Scotland, it's already helped win better sick pay and free school meals by forcing authorities to consider inequalities of class, unequal access, and the rich-poor gap.

• Ask your MP to back the socio-economic duty in parliament.
• Shape the duty’s activation! Join a workshop with us and the rest of the 1forEquality coalition on 29 April on how to respond to the consultation. 
• Can't make 29 April? Register your interest here for future sessions.

So, we're getting authorities to consider inequality – how do we help them undo it? With your help, we built a manifesto that would create an equal, thriving, green society; we're building a growing movement of community reporters and community economists to make sure the people at the sharp end of inequality are the people writing the next chapter; and in the coming weeks, we're launching a new programme to educate and lobby MPs about our plan. 

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What does wealth mean to you? You said:

• "Having more resources (financial, land, size of house, materials, possessions) than you need. Having more than most people around the world."
  
  
• "Financial wealth for me means having more than sufficient to meet my needs. That I am cushioned against unexpected financial demands and I have a disposable income that allows me freedom of choice, to have holidays and to pay for services."
  
  

• "Real wealth is the quality of our relationships with one another, the other life forms on this planet and the planet itself, and our capacity to reach our own creative potential. However, wealth in the context of social inequality is about ownership of property and opportunities, and these need to be spread much more equally."
  
  

• "Money is not wealth but it does represent the ability to gain some. This appears to be the same thing, but because it has different properties to that of the various kinds of true wealth, it should be seen as a separate item. True wealth consists of both the ownership of useful sites of land and also the ownership of the durable capital goods (such as buildings, transports and the infrastructures that town authorities can provide) that are used for satisfying personal social needs and for producing consumer goods and more durable goods items too. A millionaire can be wealthy by what he/she owns, even though the same person has a financial debt of the same amount in value. This shows the difference between money and wealth."
  
  

• "Wealth is surplus; above and beyond what's required to meet all needs and provide security for unforeseen expenses. In relative terms almost everyone in Britain is wealthy compared to some parts of the world, however on a daily basis, relative poverty probably has far greater impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the most deprived quintile in our society."
  
  

• "There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."