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.

The Health Foundation

We are currently working with the Health Foundation on a co-designed organisational development programme to support them on their journey to becoming a new kind of foundation, able to understand change and best deploy its resources to take action. Over 2 years we have worked with every level of the organisation through a mixture of leadership development, dialogue, and collective inquiry.

London Engagement Collaborative

An open, cross-sector network for anyone interested in developing the practice of involving communities in the work to make London a safer, greener, and more prosperous city for all Londoners. Delivered in partnership with the GLA and Migrants in Culture, it welcomes participants from across civil society, as well as local, regional, and central government.

My Food Community

Delivered in partnership with the Soil Association between 2021 and 2023, My Food Community was a national programme of leadership development and social action dedicated to increasing capacity around resilient, sustainable local food. We designed and delivered the personal development elements of the programme, working with participants from across the UK.

Care USA

Since early 2023 we have been working with the President and Global Leadership Team at Care USA to establish leadership behaviours and cultural ways of working that service the organisations 2030 Vision. Working across 93 countries with 7000+ staff, we have been trusted to design and hold the spaces global leaders need to help Care USA to transition and become a truly networked operating model that is globally scaled and locally led.

Wellcome

In 2023/24 we worked with the Government Relations and Policy teams at the Wellcome Trust on a programme of action learning designed to support their Equity, Diversity and Inclusion agenda. The programme, which was open to everyone across both teams, aimed to build on Wellcome Trust’s existing training and conversations to create an ongoing learning loop around EDI in a way that facilitated action.

Centre for Democracy

Delivered in 2020/21, the Centre was the outcome of an ambitious initiative designed to connect and mobilise the broad movement of people and organisations working towards democratic renewal in the UK. Bringing together the UK Democracy Map, UK Democracy Meetup and other pieces of research, we worked with partners to make the case for the ongoing development of the UK democracy sector including supporting the development of the UK Democracy Handbook funded by Nesta.

Turn 2 Us

We have worked with Turn2us on a range of projects related to organisational development and learning. In 2022/23 we delivered a whole organisation management training programme designed to develop greater consistency in leadership and management, we have delivered coaching and team development across the Impact and Funding Teams, and we have worked with the Head of EDIB on induction training for the whole organisation including trustees.

Change100

Change100 is an internship programme designed to change the UK's employment landscape for university leavers with disabilities and health conditions. We designed, incubated and delivered the programme for Leonard Cheshire Disability before spinning the programme back into the charity after its third year. Change100 grew each year, working with household name employers across public, private and non-profit sectors.

Local Trust

In addition to our work with Local Trust through the Community Leadership Academy, we have also delivered learning programmes for staff across Local Trust between 2020 and 2024. These programmes have focused on bringing together cohorts for programmes of peer learning, coaching, and reflection to support organisational change, and personal development in the context of the organisation closing down in 2026.

The Koreo Prize

The Koreo Prize was a national storytelling initiative designed to give young people a platform to investigate and address the defining social issues of our time. The prize was delivered across 2017 with a cohort of judges from across sectors and with categories linked to the UN’s SDGs. The prize is an excellent example of our charitable work, which seeks to address complex social issues by mobilising talented people.

South Bank Students' Union

In 2020, we were commissioned to manage a strategic and operational turnaround of South Bank Students’ Union. Drawing on deep connections to the student movement, we supported the organisation to develop a new articulation of purpose, a culture supported by a new leadership framework, and significantly increased the diversity profile of the union’s staff team. Following that initial 6-month project, we are designing and delivering a learning programme to further embed change.

Kickstart

Koreo is a gateway provider for the UK's Department of Work & Pensions' Kickstart scheme. We are proud to have mobilised a network of social sector employers to create hundreds of new social change jobs through the Covid-19 pandemic. Using all our experience to convene employers and develop a learning programme to support participants, we have used the opportunity to advocate for inclusive employment in the sector in addition to practically supporting people into jobs.