What we stand for
Our purpose
Our mission is to strengthen campaigning by championing excellence and building a connected, resilient community of changemakers fuelled by the hope that change is possible.
Our vision is a thriving community of confident, connected and resilient
changemakers effectively shaping a more hopeful and just future together.
The Sheila McKechnie Foundation (SMK) was set up in June 2005 in memory of
legendary campaigner, Sheila McKechnie.
For over two decades, we have worked with a
wide variety of people, causes and organisations to find their power as changemakers – as campaigners.
Our values
Courage. We choose courage as a value, because we are witnesses to the scale
of injustice and refuse to be daunted by it. We are not afraid to flex and learn.
Generosity: We choose generosity as a value because healthy communities
require interdependence, diversity and partnership. We cannot thrive without
one another.
Hope: We chose hope as a value because it is the renewable energy of the
campaign’s community. Hope always believes that change is possible
SMK’s commitment to solidarity and equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI)
SMK is here for people trying to make lasting social change. Many of the change-makers we work with are trying to shift interconnected systems of inequality, which we know are replicated in organisations, like ours, that are working to change them.
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