A community sharing radical, anti-oppressive ways of working.

An open, collaborative library of radical HR & operations policies.

Advice on how to create radical alternatives to standard policies.

Find out about opportunities to explore radical HR together.

Stories and learning from the frontline of radical internal policy work.

RadHR is a space where groups and organisations invested in building a fairer and more equitable society can come together to share the nuts and bolts—the policies, processes, practices and stories—of how we organise ourselves based on our values.

We are a free, open, and collaborative resource built by people like you: community groups, mutual aid organisations, cooperatives, activist groups and voluntary sector organisations interested in finding ways of working together that help us look after each other and challenge the power structures we find in the wider world.

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94 policies uploaded by groups like yours, including…

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Member volunteer induction process

A simple 1-page process guide to support a newer member to get involved in a particular working group within the organisation. It aims to provide clarity for members looking to get involved in a new part of the cooperative.

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Carer’s leave

A policy for the situations in which a member of staff can take leave to support the care of another, with broad and detailed definitions of what constitutes care and who the policy can apply to. Also includes legal framework.

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Team dynamics & tension shifting meeting

A meeting template and policy description for a small workers’ cooperative to improve communication, surface and address tensions or conflicts that exist amongst the group. It’s about making space for the kinds of conversations around group needs and dynamics that are easily side-lined.

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Equality and diversity

A plain-English youth work cooperative equality and diversity policy, which makes explicit the range of types of oppression that can play out amongst young people and the cooperative, as well as the ways in which those experiences are often reflections of wider social power dynamics. Outlines the responsibilities of both the organisation and of individual youth workers.

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Ways of working policy

This policy is for RadHR workers outlines the practices and processes through which we manage our work, in line with our values. Our practices come under three main categories: 1) How we approach our work, 2) How we manage our time, and 3) How we look after one another.

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Privacy and cookie policy

A comprehensive digital rights-based website privacy policy with detailed information about what and how site users details will be used, including by partners. Includes: user rights, text on organisational refusal to share personal data with authorities and how to have your data deleted.

16 guides to help you develop your own policies and processes…

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Power

Living systems for thriving groups: supporting you to organise collaboratively

Navigate is a team of experienced facilitators and trainers. This resource is an online course they’ve developed to help groups thrive by creating and maintaining living social systems that work for them and fit their values.

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Disciplinary

How to have a legally-compliant ‘disciplinary’ policy that doesn’t shame, blame or punish

How can progressive employers meet the legal requirements of a disciplinary policy, without embedding punitive values? This guide covers how ‘disciplinary’ situations can be treated as opportunities for learning and collective improvement.

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Legal Terms

Just Words: A Simple Guide to Common Legal Words in the UK Charity & Non-Profit sector

How can community organisations understand the legal jargon used in the charity and non-profit sector? This guide provides community groups, particularly those led by and for refugee and migrant communities in the UK, a plain-language A-Z breakdown of legal terms commonly used in the UK non-profit sector.

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Protest & Work

How to support workers taking political action outside of the workplace

Can organisations offer ‘protest leave’ to workers? Meaningful change requires people to challenge injustice beyond the workplace; offering protest leave is one way organisations can support this principle. This guide offers practical information for organisations choosing to offer protest leave.

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Recruitment

How to recruit new people without reproducing systemic inequality

This guide explores the frequently asked questions organisations often have about recruitment, particularly when thinking about how to design a recruitment process with equity in mind.

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Safeguarding

Radical safeguarding: a social justice workbook for safeguarding practitioners 

A guide designed for practitioners working with children and young people, particularly in school contexts, who might be wondering how to start doing things differently when it comes to safeguarding.

24 stories from the community, plus tools and updates from the core team…

Blog

Making the “case for space”: The value of peer-to-peer reflection across organisations

Back in 2025, Ort Gallery and RadHR came together for an in-person session with no agenda–just an aim to share, reflect, and support each other with whatever we had on our minds at work. Here’s how it went.

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Making Policies Radical? How we do collective policymaking

Members of the Common Knowledge coop reflect on the practicalities and challenges of developing policies as a small team

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What does it mean to advocate for internal policy transformation across power differences?

Tina Ajuonuma from The Better Org reflects on how power shapes our organisations and shares practical ways to advocate for internal policy transformation across power differences.

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Socially-just pay and anti-oppression work in practice

Reflections from our second RadHR Soapbox event: what does socially-just pay actually mean?

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Getting Started on RadHR

RadHR.org has gradually built-up a lot of different radical internal policy content. If you’re new to the site, or newer to collective policy making, this blog will guide you through some of the key resources we’ve been collecting here over the years.

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Safety is a collective responsibility—and we all have a duty of care

How a new wellbeing cooperative in Oxford is embedding safety in their policies and practices.