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Advice on how to create radical alternatives to standard policies.

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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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Flat structure mutual support and feedback

In our flat structure, we have created a “Buddy system” where each team member acts as a buddy to another. This aims to ensure that we don’t lose the good bits of management, and that we all feel supported and able to hold ourselves accountable.
The buddy system is closely related to our feedback processes which are also detailed here.

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Socially just waging system

A waging system that aims to be socially just, in recognising different needs and backgrounds, and fair to all of its workers. It aims to provide for maximum financial security, and also reflect the organisation’s ethics and principles. It’s trying to address the fact that pay tends to ignore people’s pre-existing circumstances and treats people’s time as worthy of different amounts.

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Family leave

A gender-neutral and trans-inclusive policy for new parents—of all kinds—taking time off work.

Policy

New child leave policy

We aim to ensure anyone who becomes responsible for a child has paid time off devoted to this huge new responsibility.

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Associates/freelance contract agreement

A (more) plain English contract for freelance workers, which aims to simplify ongoing work agreements and to equalise terms in areas such as: Intellectual property, liability and cancellation pay.

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Flat structure decision making & prioritisation processes

A decision making and prioritisation processes that enables us to work efficiently in a high-trust culture within our flat structure.

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

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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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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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Sickness

How to write a compassionate, supportive, solidarity-based sickness policy

What happens if someone goes on long-term sickness absence or is frequently absent? This guide shares practical suggestions to help you develop a compassionate and supportive sickness policy guided by disability justice thinking.

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Grievance

How to create non-punitive grievance procedures which deepen our understanding of each other

What does it mean to raise a grievance? This guide covers ways to create grievance procedures that hear different perspectives while avoiding shame and blame, so that we can strengthen rather than corrode the bonds between us.

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Action Research

How to set up a simple Participatory Action Research Project for collective policy writing

This short guide outlines a simple process to help you set up a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project for collective policy writing.

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Pay

How to write a fairer, more equitable pay policy

From flat pay structures to needs based pay systems – how do we live our progressive values, meet everyone’s needs and avoid replicating the systemic inequalities of the corporate world? This guide explores the tricky topic of pay.

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.