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
Demonstrating the Transformational Capabilities of Cities in Sheffield
The UBI Lab Network supports a worldwide decentralised network of citizens, researchers, and activists.
Opus Productions is the production department of Opus
Bringing new audiences to literature
A network and campaign aimed at diversifying city leadership
No community was untouched by the pandemic. We found our way through it together.
Enabling collective control where ideas are created and shaped by the local community
A neighbourhood-level approach to engaging people in decision making
A welcoming, inclusive and accessible space
A Magazine for Sheffield
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
Tackling the challenges we face and making change happen in Sheffield
Developing a new vision for creativity and culture in Sheffield
An engagement project and report across the creative sectors
Four sets of learning resources for teachers in Sheffield
A report commissioned by Marketing Sheffield
The UK’s largest annual politics and activism festival
Opus Distribution provides unique print distribution opportunities.
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
Supporting the independent media sector
Using generative interviewing to create space for people to make sense of the world
Research and development for a new progressive vision for social care
Exploring the 'radical roots' of Sheffield