Our work
About our work
Our work recognises that the problems faced by our city, the UK and the wider world are complex and intersecting. We can't solve these problems one at a time – that's why we're involved in dozens of different projects seeking to make interventions at a systemic level.
Explore our work below or take a look at our 2025 Annual Report
Active projects
Demonstrating the Transformational Capabilities of Cities in Sheffield
A Magazine for Sheffield
The UK’s largest annual politics and activism festival
The UBI Lab Network supports a worldwide decentralised network of citizens, researchers, and activists.
Opus Distribution provides unique print distribution opportunities.
Opus Productions is the production department of Opus
Learning and action for people and organisations to face the many interlinked crises that stand in front of us
Modelling the future rights of nature in South Yorkshire
Tackling the challenges we face and making change happen in Sheffield
Supporting the independent media sector
Using generative interviewing to create space for people to make sense of the world
Archived projects
At Foundations Earth, we nurture the capacities and capabilities needed for a new kind of planetary-scale governance.
A network of groups and individuals who are trying to deepen democracy at a local level
Border abolition project
No community was untouched by the pandemic. We found our way through it together.
Developing a new vision for creativity and culture in Sheffield
Enabling collective control where ideas are created and shaped by the local community
An engagement project and report across the creative sectors
Research and development for a new progressive vision for social care
A neighbourhood-level approach to engaging people in decision making
Four sets of learning resources for teachers in Sheffield
Exploring the 'radical roots' of Sheffield
A welcoming, inclusive and accessible space
A report commissioned by Marketing Sheffield
A network and campaign aimed at diversifying city leadership
Bringing new audiences to literature