Civic Futures

Civic Futures is an experiment in collective leadership and learning, delivered in partnership between Koreo, Dark Matter Labs, the Young Foundation, and the GLA. Bringing together a vibrant mixture of activists, artists, funders, curators, educators, organisers, connectors, technologists, carers, archivists, and more from across London's civil society, the project starts by asking a question; how we can build shared wisdom in making the transition to a better future for London?

2027

Designed and led in partnership with Centre for Knowledge Equity, Ten Years’ Time, and Northern Soul, 2027 is an ambitious ten-year employment and leadership programme. It aims to bring community power into UK grant-making in order to build fairer funding initiatives. Supported by Esmee Fairbairn and the National Lottery Community Fund, it launched in 2018 and opens in October each year.

Crisis

Over the course of 2020 and 2021 we worked with the Strategic Leadership Group at Crisis to support the development of leadership capacity across the organisation as they build towards a new strategy. Rapidly re-designed to run through the pandemic, the programme has supported 50 leaders at the organisation through a mixture of 360, coaching, workshop space and action learning as they navigated the most challenging and uncertain of periods.

Community Leadership Academy

We are currently working with The Local Trust to design and deliver their Community Leadership Academy, a project dedicated to supporting the practice and development of community leadership across England. Delivered in partnership with the Young Foundation and Northern Soul, the project aims to develop a nuanced picture of community leadership and a stronger, more connected movement for community-led change.

The Mind Federation

We've worked with colleagues across the Mind Federation on several ventures and projects over the last several years. In addition to facilitating some strategy development, this included a whole-federation project of strategic people development, which aimed to mobilise leaders around the shared mission, connect them across the Federation, and develop a consistent expectation of leadership across the group.‍

Charityworks

Charityworks was our first venture in 2009 and is dedicated to increasing the quality of leadership and management across the UK charity sector. It began as a small pilot before scaling, with the support of the Cabinet Office, to become a national programme. Originally a graduate scheme, it is now an open programme, supporting diverse trainees through a year-long placement and leadership development programme.