Our Mission

We are a transformative community organising school that travels across the UK to support groups to grow teams, build power and take action together.

Only when everyone has the opportunity to organise effectively and win real change, will our mission be complete.

Our Values

We value relationships. No one can change the world alone. It is through relationships that we have the power to bring about justice.

We value accountability. We work to keep commitments and respect the needs and time of others. We communicate openly and generously.

We value accessibility. We work for a world where no one is left behind. This means learning from those who are the most oppressed in society, and working accordingly.

We value care. We centre care in all that we do so that our work is sustainable. People will always come before a project or programme.

We value action. We focus on supporting people to win material change in their lives and community. All changes come from taking action.

Our approach 

We build power through organising. We are committed to the practices of community organising and collective care. Our approach focuses on developing leaders, building teams, and winning change through these practices. We’re focused on building power that lasts beyond one-off actions or campaigns and results in real change to the material conditions of people’s lives.

We work as strategic partners. We work alongside teams organising around issues they experience and that want to be in relationship with us. These are real, long-term relationships built on trust. We’re strategic partners committed to transformative change with our people, not service providers implementing requests.

We centre the communities we work with. We focus on communities and their priorities, not our own agenda. We do not take organisational positions on specific issues. Our work is rooted in belonging, nuance, accuracy and context. We meet people where they are and amplify the voices of those directly affected by injustice. Our work builds leadership and agency, rather than minimising it.

We maintain financial independence. We diversify our income so that we are not funder dependent and can remain accountable to our people, their hope and hurt, rather than changing sector trends. Our independence allows us to grow in ways that serve our mission.

We pursue excellence in our work. We aim to be the best at what we do. Our reputation rests on consistent, high-quality organising that delivers real change. We're committed to learning, improving our methods, and setting high standards for ourselves and our movement.

Our community

We centre our work on people harmed by unfair systems – those most heavily burdened by inequality and least protected when systems fail. This means we partner with groups led by, or connected to, those with direct experience of the issues they are addressing – who recognise the injustice they face and are committed to building collective leadership and power to drive change.

We do not partner with those without genuine ties to the communities they claim to represent, those unwilling to build leadership across difference, or groups seeking freedom for one community at the expense of another.

As a principle of community organising, we are guided by shared values and issues, and sometimes engage with organisations that don’t share all of our politics or culture. Broadening the base of people engaged in this work is critical if we are to win transformative change. This means sometimes we have to work across difference towards a shared common goal. We do this when there is sufficient common ground and they are either deeply connected to communities we support or hold power essential to driving change. 

We meet communities where they are, supporting both formal organisations and grassroots collectives. We believe engaging with the world as it is in order to transform it into the world we want it to be. Above all we prioritise transformative community organising, focusing on outcomes and processes over strict models, and welcoming those committed to using multiple levers for change.

Read Our Work to find out more about what we do.