How a decade of difficult times made housing a top career destination for socially-minded graduates By Craig Pemblington Amongst the bustle of university sports halls, with tote bags and stationary emblazoned with the logos of financial services employers, the graduate careers fair of the 2010s was fast becoming a great…

What kind of learning space is needed for people taking action in their communities? This question has been a constant companion for us in designing and delivering the Community Leadership Academy over the last 3 years, along with colleagues at Local Trust, the Young Foundation, and Northern Soul. …

This blog is the first in a series of reflections from the Koreo team, looking back on our journey designing and delivering the Community Leadership Academy, funded by Local Trust. …

Speak to any team or organisation about the issues they face, and the quality of communication, and in particular feedback, will usually be near the top of the list. Wanting a feedback culture doesn’t create one; instead it requires conditions that are only developed intentionally and slowly. These include: safety…

Koreo’s Founder & CEO Rachel Whale reflects on our organisational journey, as we share a new learning offer for social impact organisations. In conversation with people working across civil society at the beginning of 2023, I am constantly reminded of a quote attributed to Reg Revans in the 1980s. Revans…

Last month, as part of a project we are working on with our friends at the Young Foundation, we were asked to share some reflections on our work designing and holding learning network space for people working in social change contexts over the last few years. We wanted to share…

Sheetal Mistry, one of our Learning Experience Managers, reflects on the evolution of community engagement in response to the pandemic, and the potential for longer-term shifts in how we approach it going forward. The pandemic and its successive lockdowns radically affected the ways in which organisations had been ‘doing’ and…

Introducing ‘Platformation’, a new essay created together with Stephanie Sherman from design studio Supervisions, Koreo Founder & CEO Rachel Whale considers the opportunity to reimagine civil society organisational design for the 21st Century. “We should work as if we are living in the early days of a better nation.” …

This is the final post in a series written by Graham Leicester and Maureen O’Hara as part of a collaboration between International Futures Forum and Koreo. In previous posts, Graham and Maureen explored how we might learn to read today’s complex landscape better and considered the kinds of spaces for…