About the UK Polyamory Association
History
The UKPA was originally founded in 2022 by Giulia Smith, Jenny Wilson, Emily Payne, Grace Withers, Eunice Hung, Jennie Philips and Maxine Green. After actively supporting the community for three years, the leadership group was experiencing burn-out and it was decided to pause operations until new organisers could be found. In late 2024 David Durant joined the organising committee in a coordinating role and in late 2025 we rebooted the Association with renewed energy!
Our Goals
The goals of the UKPA are to advance the cause of polyamory in the UK following the model of other campaigning organisations such as Stonewall. We intend to do this through many methods including the following.
- Providing statistics about the uptake of polyamory in the UK
- Producing education materials about polyamory
- Bringing together and supporting the diverse in-person and online polyamory communities in the UK
- Tracking the portrayal of polyamory in the media
- Working with companies to create polyamory friendly HR policies
- Research what changes are needed in UK law to support polyamorous families
Our current priorities
Our initial priorities are the following.
- Responding to the Office of National Statistic consultation on the next Census with a view to including one or more questions related to polyamory
- Reaching out to organisations like Stonewall to learn what we can from people who have done this before
- Research provision of educational resources
- Research cost and design of national surveys
- Collect examples of existing polyamory friendly corporate HR policies
- Work with the Green Party to help them develop their policy position on polyamorous families
Legal and Financial Structure
The UK Polyamory Association is a non-profit limited company registered at Companies House . Our Articles of Association commit us to using 100% of any money we collect on supporting the polyamorous community in this country.
We are committed to posting our financial records openly once a month on our blog as part of our "month notes". In addition, our financial records will be checked monthly by our external auditor Ian Tustin.
Community
We are very much assisted in our efforts by contributions from the organisers of polyamorous communities throughout the UK via a regular online meetup. If you are in such a position and would like to be part of our leadership support network please get in touch!