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.
94 policies uploaded by groups like yours, including…
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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.
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How we make decisions
In Autonomic, we make decisions collectively, while also attempting to empower autonomous action by individual workers. We designed our decision making process using decision making tools we had experienced through participation in various horizontal organisations. We hope this tool is useful to others in the struggle for a better world.
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Employment contract template
This employment contract aims to enshrine a more equitable relationship between employee and employer and is designed to make it easy and accessible to understand the key elements of employment with us.
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Protest leave
A policy that allows employees to take “protest leave” to participate in demonstrations or civil action related to major political issues, without it counting against their holiday or sick leave, as long as it doesn’t interfere with time-critical projects and is approved by their manager.
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Performance management process
A performance management process for a small self-managed co-op that allows for democratic overturn of panel decisions if over half of the co-op members object.
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Induction checklist
An adaptable induction process focused on wellbeing and support, as well as practical, legal and technical tasks.
16 guides to help you develop your own policies and processes…
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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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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.
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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 Structures
Legal Structuring for Social Justice: A Community Legal Toolkit
How do we pick the right legal structure when we’re creating an organisation to address racial or social justice? This toolkit provides accessible, informative, and free advice to leaders, activists and changemakers within community and grassroots groups to help answer this question.
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Other Leave
How to write a supportive policy for other kinds of leave that respond to our real life needs
This guide explores different approaches to leave, relevant aspects of law, and alternative kinds of leave to support one another to live better lives.
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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.
24 stories from the community, plus tools and updates from the core team…
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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.