January 2025

Over the past year, we’ve been engaging in ongoing conversations with The Phoenix Way (TPW), grounded in a shared interest in learning, reflection and strengthening practice.

Attending TPW events gave us a broader picture of their work and created valuable opportunities to connect with colleagues and grantees from across the country.

These spaces helped clarify how Haki aligns with TPW’s vision, and the kinds of contributions we hope to bring into the partnership. 

It was particularly powerful to hear directly from grantees about the work being funded across different places and communities, and to see how Community Connect — TPW’s capacity-building programme — continues to offer practical resources for both grantees and TPW.

A recurring theme was how organisations can continue to think about inclusion, particularly in relation to Disabled people and disability justice. These conversations explored accessibility as an ongoing process, rooted in flexibility rather than fixed solutions.

As we reflected, “accessibility and ease benefit everyone,” and there is no one-size-fits-all approach.

Too often, accessibility is narrowed to a single experience; disability justice asks us to engage with a much wider range of Disabled people and access needs, and to be open about what can be offered.

Engagement with the TPW network has helped open up deeper conversations about disability justice and intersectionality within funding, partnerships and organisational practice, and it’s something we hope will continue to develop in the future through ongoing collaboration.