Our intention
We’re here to support people in building the societies they need and deserve.
Societies get stuck when people forget or deny their right to change them - when we think of societies as fixed or determined.
The truth is, we are society. We make it everyday through our thoughts, choices, and actions. If we want to make a better society, we can.
Our mission is to help people recognise and respond to this basic truth. We aim to create the room to challenge and change - to offer the care, support, insight, and inspiration necessary for people to see the societies they are in and claim their agency to change them.
Our approach
This work isn’t something we can do alone. It requires teachers, carers, researchers, organisers, activists, coaches and more, each sharing, resourcing, and organising together. Our part is to be an instigator and connector, tending the seeds of a global movement around a set of key inquiries and activities.
Uncovering
Where do our ideas about society come from? How are our current social systems enforced and maintained? What prevents people from changing them?
Nurturing
How do we help people be inspired, supported, and sustained in the work of systems change? How do we do this work in community across cultures and contexts?
Sustaining
How do we make care central to our own community and the societies we hope to build? How do we resource eachother? How can we build and share knowledge together? How do we help reach new places and people?
Our people
Meg Foulkes
Meg is a passionate community builder, facilitator, and trainer with a deep commitment to justice and collective liberation. She has worked with global community-based nonprofits, led grassroots initiatives, and supported asylum seekers in detention through her early legal work — always with a focus on protecting rights and building power with those most often excluded.
Creative and collaborative by nature, Meg works to create spaces where people feel heard, valued, and ready to take action. She designs projects that create meaningful, lasting impact — always rooted in the needs and wisdom of the communities she serves. Meg also brings strong experience in advocacy, helping communities turn insight into influence — and influence into change.
Outside of work, Meg enjoys supporting Fulham, being in London, and feels most at peace when swimming in the sea.
Eddie Harris
Eddie is an artist, philosopher and strategic coach dedicated to nurturing social change. From grassroots community initiatives to global live music operations, he has worked with teams to create experiences and environments people enjoy and trust. His work focuses on illuminating the narratives, practices, concepts that influence the quality of our institutions and their impact.
Reverence and curiosity are at the core of his ideologies. He is a passionate and unrelenting advocate for what he calls “the reasonable expectation of a humane and sustainable planetary society.” He loves navigating with others through the ideation, clarification and materialization of ideas to enrich our lives.
Though this work is his happy place, he loves to host friends and loved ones, support live music and travel.
Matt Hawkins
Matt has 15 years of experience working in movements and campaigning - and picked up many lessons along the way! The most important for him is the urgent need for campaigns to go much, much deeper and address the deep-rooted values at the heart of society. He’s seen how so many efforts for change can get stuck or undone because they’ve not come from society.
As a communications nerd he is also fascinated by how frames and stories can powerfully influence people’s worldviews.
When he’s not on the job, Matt enjoys being taken for walks by his energetic Collie, swimming in his local lake, and trying to play tennis and piano (not at the same time).