About
Threadwork Collective’s Commitment and Vision
Threadwork Collective provides comprehensive and adaptive support for those people and organisations who deliver work that seeks to create a fairer future for all.
We do this through forging close working relationships, flexibly responding to needs, and focusing on building capacity for sustainable change.
Create Lasting Change
We know from our collective experience the pressure faced by individuals and organisations in the social and public sectors, particularly the challenge of balancing short-term deliverables and long-term systemic shifts they want to create.
People are frustrated, tried-and-tested approaches are failing, the crises are multiplying, and funding is tightening.
We need a new way. One that is responsive, multi-disciplinary, connects people and projects, and is future-focused.
Using the skills and experiences of a collective, together we can build new capabilities, change the status quo, and build dynamics for the future we need,
Flexible
The right support at the right time
We will provide the skills and expertise you need for whatever stage you’re at in your delivery, and will be alongside you all the way.
Focused
Realise your mission
We dive deep into your mission and drive activity to help you achieve it, helping you to strategise, collect data to inform decisions, and find new paths forward.
Futures
Unlock long-term change
We design methods and practices to unlock creative potential and help teams reimagine what is possible in creating a healthy, fair and equitable future.
The Threads We Weave
Threadwork Collective explores your work across 5 strands, weaving them together for holistic support.
Systems
Viewing through a systems lens
Envisaging the future system your work is seeking to create as well as identifying how your current work interacts with existing systems, recognising the opportunity and impact of your projects.
Transitions
Shifting towards what’s possible
Exploring the practice and processes to develop in order to make the transition from the current modes of operation onto a new – often emergent – system and a different way of working.
Communities
Involving the many voices
Developing and embedding participatory practices which increases ownership and agency, deepens understanding, and improves equitable outcomes for your work.
Innovations
Designing impactful change
Bringing multiple new ideas to life, co-developing products and services alongside your teams and wider community, and to implement them in ways which maximise their impact across the scope of work.
Strategies
Exploring routes to lasting change
Focusing on the changes and impacts of your mission, test and develop paths to help achieve it, and gather real-world insights to root goals and actions in a relevant, accessible framework.
Our Collective Values
These fundamental principles help guide our work within partnerships, steering our actions and approaches.
Coupled with our 5 core threads, they help us rethink the status quo, critique business as usual, and activate the shifts we need.
Regenerative
Holistic changes
Applying principles of regenerative action, including setting out a shared future, mapping change, evolving and measuring work over the long-term, and supporting internal development.
Emergence
Navigating uncertainty
Embracing the complex nature of the challenges we face, developing strategies and decision-making processes with humility, deep understanding, and a focus on creating purposeful change.
Openness
A sharing culture
Creating open spaces for reflection, supporting individuals, teams and organisations to deepen collaborative practice, and develop a culture of shared learning and understanding to drive coherence.
Participatory
Action-for-all
Developing inclusive, plural and engaged practices, facilitating greater agency and representation, and scaling the opportunities for more significant reach, impact and transformation.