August 2025

As we move through our second year since becoming a Community Interest Company, we’ve been spending time not only on what we do, but on how we do it.

With support from an external facilitator, we developed a Working Together Framework — a living document that captures the values, commitments and ways of working that shape Haki Collective.

Haki is a Black, Disabled-led organisation working in a deeply underfunded and often hostile landscape. As the framework itself says, “perfection is neither expected nor the goal.” Instead, this work is about creating shared ground we can return to — a set of guardrails that help us pause, reflect, and recalibrate when we need to.

At the heart of the framework are the values that guide our everyday practice – We centre accountability and personal responsibility, aligning our actions with the justice we talk about, staying alert to how racism, ableism and other systems of harm show up — and working to interrupt them.

Care and sustainability run throughout the document too, recognising that justice work is long-term and that “our collective flourishing depends on each person’s wellbeing.”

We aim to “co-create environments where people feel safe to be open and honest about mistakes, limitations, and uncertainties.”

The framework also names clearly who we are accountable to. We are accountable to “Black and Global Majority Disabled people and their broader communities, whose experiences and leadership centre our work,” as well as to grassroots organisations we work alongside, and to each other within Haki.

We also hold ourselves accountable to “the principles of disability justice and intersectional liberation,” which help us imagine ways of working that are rarely offered to Black and Global Majority Disabled people within oppressive systems.

You can also find this in the ‘Our Approach’ section of the website.

Just as importantly, the framework sets out what we are accountable for. This includes “creating and maintaining organisational practices that embody the justice we seek,” ensuring our work genuinely connects racial and disability justice, and “creating accessible spaces where communities can learn, organise, and thrive.”

It reflects our commitment to moving beyond charity-based models and towards work that centres power, strength and collective care.

We’re sharing this update as part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and learning.

It’s a living document, and it will continue to change as we grow, listen, and receive feedback.

In our second year, this work has been about laying foundations that we hope will sustain Haki for the long haul.