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We believe that communities know themselves better than anyone else.

And we can help you harness their insights, passion, and expertise.

Our Services

We help charities and businesses learn how to work with communities, ​​foster sustainable change, and make meaningful social impact. We centre justice, equity, and mutuality in all our work and can help you do this, too.
Training and workshops

Whether you want to learn more about co-production or train your staff on working in a trauma-informed way, a one-off workshop or longer training, we'll create a bespoke package to help you work differently.

Project Management

From inception to evaluation, we have tonnes of experience delivering large-scale social change projects. We can help you design a framework, keep you on track, or manage projects for you.

Community Conversations

Need an introduction to a community group? Want to start a conversation but don't know how? We can help you engage in a way that isn't extractative, and that keeps everyone safe.

Corporate Social Responsibility

You might be thinking about how to make a difference and create a genuine social impact, or looking to improve the relationships you have with communities. We can help you develop your CSR initiatives, work out how to achieve them, and measure their impact. 

Research

We can design, facilitate, or conduct research using a collaborative, peer research methodology. Whether it's qualitative or quantative, we can do it — and we can write, design, and disseminate it too.

Policy writing and review

In order to work safely and justly, your organisation needs to have policies that reflect your values. We can produce policies on lived experience involvement, co-production, and equity, diversity and inclusion, or review what you already have to make sure you're working ethically.

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Who We Are

We've been working with some of the UK's biggest — and smallest — organisations for the last ten years. 

From working on huge projects for national charities to supporting the growth of user-led organisations and everything inbetween, we know how to work in a safe, community-centred way. ​Whether it's food insecurity, gender-based violence, social care, or disability rights, the common thread throughout our work is justice, equity, and care.

Our areas of expertise include:

Co-production and involvement

Lived experience leadership

Community development

Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)

Events

Project management

Participatory grantmaking

Radical approaches to mental health

Research

Accessibility

Emily Reynolds

Georgia Mehmet-Wright

Emily is a lived experience leader with significant experience within the user-led mental health sphere. She was a trustee of NSUN for six years, and has worked as an expert by experience with St. Giles Trust, UKCP, British Council for Psychoanalysts, Samaritans, and many more. She has also worked for Mind, YoungMinds, the British Association of Social Workers, Ten Years' Time, and Wish.

​She is an Associate Visiting Lecturer at UCL and has worked extensively with King's College London as part of their Violence, Abuse, and Mental Health Network.
 
Prior to this, Emily was a journalist, writing on mental health for national and international media outlets including Vogue, The Guardian, New York Magazine, the BBC, and more and extensively copywriting and editing for the innovation agency Nesta. In 2016, she published a book, A Beginner's Guide to Losing Your Mind, a practical guide to mental health for young people. 

Georgia is a dynamic leader in community engagement and media communications with significant experience in peer support, user-led mental health support, food injustice, nutritional inequality and food systems. 

Georgia managed Mind's Communities Team alongside Emily, collaborating with the Head of Lived Experience to implement strategies, manage projects, and advocate for community groups and lived experience leadership. 
Georgia has spent years fostering relationships within peer support and survivor movements, co-hosting in-person, online, and hybrid events.  

Georgia's work has been recognised by major media outlets including BBC News, Comic Relief, and The Evening Standard - particularly her work with Brixton People's Kitchen, a social enterprise tackling food insecurity, nutritional inequality and social isolation for which she remains on the board.

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