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Policies are only the beginning!

To change how we organise, we need each other: our ideas, our experiences, our learnings. This is where we get to share the stories that underpin the policies, processes and structures that fill the RadHR library…

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RadHR Lunch Meets #2—June 7th, 1pm UK time

RadHR Lunch Meets are a lowkey way to meet other folks struggling with the same kinds of internal policy and process things that you are. RadHR Lunch Meet #2 Weds 7 June @ 1pm UK time! Sign-up here Feeling like you’re the only person in the world agonising about how to create grievance procedures that don’t blame or shame, or safeguarding processes that actually make people feel safe? Does it seem like your group is alone in struggling to find ways to truly make decisions democratically, or to ‘get the…

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RadHR Lunch Meets #1—April 4th, 1pm UK time

RadHR Lunch Meets are a lowkey way to meet other folks struggling with the same kinds of internal policy and process things that you are. RadHR Lunch Meets kick off Tues 4 April @ 1pm UK time! Sign-up here Feeling like you’re the only person in the world agonising about how to create grievance procedures that don’t blame or shame, or safeguarding processes that actually make people feel safe? Does it seem like your group is alone in struggling to find ways to truly make decisions democratically, or to ‘get…

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Welcoming workplaces for working-class people

A blog by Tanya Hawkes. I’m working class. I was raised on a council estate by a foundry worker and an unpaid carer. I spent my teenage years surviving in the benefits system and for the decade after I left school worked in factories, cleaning jobs and the mental health services. At age thirty I started work in the environmental sector as a fundraiser. For the next twenty I worked in NGOs and social movements and this experience has shown me the difficulties of being working-class in middle class dominated workplaces. But more importantly, it’s shown me that our movements have a great deal to learn from working-class people.
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Experience-based policy writing

At People Support Co-op we’ve been working with several organisations to introduce a radical approach to policy writing, as developed by our associate member Kiri Langmead. We call this the experience-based policy writing process because it involves identifying positive and negative past experiences of group members to explore how to create a policy that works for everyone and avoids replicating patterns of harm.
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The story of RadHR so far…

It started with Liam and Rich, somewhere in mid-Wales, going on about how so many different types of progressive organisations they were involved with were trying to do the same thing—figure out how their internal systems could reflect the values they were trying to create in the wider world. And how it felt like a hopeless task, with everyone doing it separately, without the time or resources to really shift all the areas of their work within each of these organisations.