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

Three years in, the RadHR Core Team is reflecting on the tensions and contradictions of ‘doing radical HR’ and we want to hear from you!

Interested in trialling a four day week but don’t know where to start? Sam Hunt from the 4 Day Week Foundation shares the key policy considerations for groups making the shift.

Sarah Richardson, Executive Producer at Restoke.

Reflections from our first ever RadHR Soapbox event, ‘Safeguarding policies that help more of us feel safe.’

If you’ve decided that one highly-paid HR consultant probably shouldn’t be writing all of your radical policies for you, what are some of the options for doing things more collectively?

If you’re wanting to establish a more collective policy making process for your team or organisation, what are the steps involved?

What kinds of group policies and processes can support our comrades and communities impacted by the current wave of British fascism?

A conversation with Jo Verrent of Unlimited.

A (republished) blog by Jo Verrent of Unlimited, a disability arts organisation, about their collective policy-making process and goals.

The members of GRIPP reflect on their November 2023 residential, and the “We Will Not” process they used to spark conversation.

Kat Hobbs reflects on over a decade of collective policy making experience and what it means to be the person leading the process of creating those policies, when you’re also deeply affected by them.

A blog by the WeAll Amp Team about bringing the often awkward and uncomfortable topic of salaries out into the open.

Thoughts from Josephine Reichert, co-founder of Ort Gallery in Birmingham, about the sometimes painful (but ultimately rewarding) process of stepping back & making space.

This is part of an ongoing discussion we’re having about the roles of bigger voluntary organisations and charities using RadHR. It’s something we actually have some differing perspectives on within the team, and wanted to share them so that others could chime in. This is Liam’s view.

After a year of research and development, RadHR.org is launching and we want to celebrate it with you!

A blog by Tanya Hawkes. The classism across society and its structural violence towards those at the lower end of the class system is often out of our control. However, our organisations have the potential to be a space where some of the inequalities of the class system can be mitigated and the contribution of working-class knowledge and experience can be valued and appreciated.

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.

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.