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Expert support to unleash your social power
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SMK works with organisations who want to make change. Whether you’re a charity, community group, social purpose organisation or funder, we’d love to help you.
Wherever you are on your campaigning journey, we can help.
Now, more than ever, we need to reconnect with our missions and explore how to do things differently.
Our unique analysis of social change and the potential for power in civil society (which we call Social Power) will help you to interrogate your practice, culture and tactics. Using our years of experience as campaigners and change-makers, ongoing research and real-world applications of our findings, we can help you to achieve lasting and transformative change.
How our in-depth consultancy and support can help you
A fresh view on the world and your change role
What do our clients say about us?
Make change a living part of your mission and culture
You’re committed to making change, but are you ready? We’ll help you develop and maintain a ‘change–ready’ organisation.
Creating and winning campaigns
I just wanted to say thank you so much for the excellent training session yesterday! We all really enjoyed it and left feeling energised and full of ideas.”
Jo McGowan
Head of Campaigns and Public Affairs, Centre for Ageing Better
SMK made the training interesting and understandable. It was accessible and useful for people who are seasoned campaigners and those newer to the approach.”
Debbie Pippard
Director of Programmes, Barrow Cadbury Trust
SMK are an absolute pleasure to work with. One of my favourite providers. I love their creativity and they provide excellent facilitation.”
Iain Somerfield
Learning and Development Manager, Institute of Physics
Who we work with
If you have a role in creating social change, we want to work with you. From large charities to small community-based organisations, from trade unions to funders. We also work with companies who want to ensure that their contribution to social change is more than window-dressing.
Consultancy blogs: a deeper dive into our consultancy
A lightbulb moment in campaigning to make physics accessible to all
SMK was first commissioned by the Institute of Physics in 2021 to develop a bespoke campaign training programme. We have now run the programme twice and trained over 20 staff in total. The Institute of Physics is the professional body for physics across the UK and...
A rich year of consultancy with so much more to come
SMK’s consultancy is framed around our unique analysis of social change and the potential for power in civil society. In 2022, we worked with over 20 clients – including charities, funders, and umbrella bodies - to interrogate their campaigning practice and tactics...
Fresh perspectives on campaigning to end water poverty
As part of its consultancy role, SMK was delighted to collaborate with the Consumer Council for Water (CCW) this year – helping the organisation to take its first steps in its campaigning journey to affect social change. CCW represents water consumers – including...
Grids, love them or loathe them.
Me, personally, I love the Sheila McKechnie Foundation’s Social Change Grid. It resonates with me as it made the complexities of working within a huge sector easier to navigate. I was very new to the term ‘social change’ but the Grid and the Social Power Report easily...
Social Change Library
Deepen your knowledge about change.
Keen to take your learning even further? Here are resources we think are well worth a read or listen for those new to social change and those looking for something new.