December 2025

From October 2025, Haki have been engaged in delivering a 5-part workshop series with Black and Global Majority disabled individuals, exploring the intersections of disability justice and racial justice.

The series, which is drew to a close in early-December, has brought together consultants, grassroots organisations, community activists, small business owners, parents of disabled children - all individuals with lived experience - creating space for reflection, connection and shared learning. 

We hope to publish a report on the series soon, which can be shared with partners, funders and communities, as well as through our finalised website, and other social media platforms.

In the coming year, we aim to build further spaces for learning and reflection in collaboration with the people and communities we work with and are part of, by developing similar programmes in new configurations and settings.   

September 2025

Alongside developing our Working Together Framework, we also spent time this year taking a deeper look at Haki Collective as an organisation — where we’ve come from, how we operate, and where we want to go next.

This work was captured in our Organisational Development Report, completed in July 2025 following a commissioned process with facilitator Anu Priya.

Haki Collective emerged from a clear and urgent need: the recognition that racism and ableism are too often treated as separate issues, despite being deeply interconnected in the lived experiences of Black and Global Majority Disabled people.

What began informally has grown into an organisation committed to addressing these intersectional injustices through collaboration, partnership and community-led approaches.

The purpose of this commissioned work was to support us in strengthening our governance and operational foundations, while also identifying opportunities for growth and development within the co-director team.

As the report reflects, “[Haki] has strong values and a clear vision. What is needed now is the systematic work of building governance and operational systems that can sustain this important work whilst staying true to its principles of disability justice and intersectional liberation.”

The process was rooted in values that closely align with our own, including anti-oppression, anti-racism, disability justice, transformative justice, feminism and womanism.

It was designed to be “emergent and collaborative,” creating space for honest and sometimes difficult conversations about how systemic harms show up inside organisations — even those working to dismantle them — while “honouring the complexity of building something new.”

This work has helped us clarify our direction of travel, strengthen our foundations, and better align our internal practices with the values that guide our external work.

As with everything at Haki, this is part of an ongoing process of building an organisation that can meaningfully support Black and Global Majority Disabled people and communities, now and into the future.

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.