Our intention
We’re doing this because we believe everyone, and the Earth we share, deserves to thrive.
We won’t pretend this is simple. There’s no perfect plan or step-by-step guide for the kind of change we need.
But we know where to start: with people. People shape society — and people can reshape it.
We believe that with the right space, support, and tools, we can begin to imagine something better — and try it out, together. That’s what we’re here to offer. A place to reflect, experiment, and grow.
We don’t have all the answers. We’re open to being wrong. We’re here to learn, listen, and keep adapting.
Our approach
Social change is challenging and complex but it can also be creative, fun, inspiring and profoundly moving. It’s these bits that we want to create space for and we’ll do that by being open, adaptable, humble, and deeply collaborative.
Research
We aim to provide a space for continual reflection, learning, trying-out and sense-making about the barriers (real and imagined) that stand in the way of social change and how we can inspire and support people to step beyond them. That exploration will have to happen with people and organisations who can bring an entire ocean of experience, understandings, knowledge, and worldviews.
Tools
Applying the learning we gain through exploration, we will develop a range of tools - coaching, training, guides, and resources - to inspire and empower anyone and any organisation to unpack the stories they are apart of and write and live their own.
Partnership
Through partnerships with organisations, grassroots initiatives, and networks we will seed programmes and projects that bring systems change across entire sectors and communities.
Community
We are creating a global community of systems-changers who can provide one another with support, guidance, advice, inspiration and fresh perspective. That community will be served by regular events and by the opportunity to meet and collaborate online and offline.
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 brought society along with them. 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 being a very amateur tennis and piano player.