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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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Four ways to make internal policies that aren’t just one (HR) person at a laptop

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?

Six steps to collective internal policy making

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

Responding to the recent spread of UK fascism

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

Navigating the ‘hard conversations’ in collective policymaking

A conversation with Jo Verrent of Unlimited.

Sharing the journey

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

“We will not, we will not… we will not do fluffy ‘values’ talk”

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

The importance – and challenge – of creating internal policies with those affected

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.

Salary review: Moving from an awkward topic to a trust-building process

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

An honest reflection on the inevitably slow and uncomfortable journey towards equity in a community organisation

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

Contracts and covenants: The roles of radical policy in bigger and smaller organisations

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.

RadHR.org launch event! Weds 30 November

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

Welcoming workplaces for working-class people

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.

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.

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.