5 Year Strategy

Strategy 2025-30

Our 5-year commitment to visionary movement-building

BACKGROUND

In an extensive strategy process in 2024, we developed a new five-year strategy, with an ambitious long-term goal:

By 2030, Scotland will have a vibrant, diverse, and intersectional social justice movement with a shared strategic vision and increased collaboration.

We see our role as creating conditions for increased strategic collaboration within and across movements. This means supporting a shift away from campaigns on single-issue topics, towards shared root causes, which we believe can create more compelling and effective strategies for building powerful movements. Our two main strands of work are:

1) increasing the capacity within and across groups to better navigate conflict.

2) facilitation and training for collaborative movement-building.

We see these as two key leverage points that Tripod is well-placed to support with, fitting with our broader theory of change.

Our Theory of Change

This Theory of Change is iterative and will be tuned up across the years of implementing our strategy.

…and this will help create the conditions for increased strategic collaboration within and between movements for justice in Scotland and beyond.

INVITATION

If you also are experimenting with different ways to do conflict, collaborating more deeply at strategic intersections, or if you see a clear connection with what we’re doing in the coming years, we want to hear from you!

In particular we’re on the lookout for:

Folks in Scotland doing conflict in transformative ways, or mediating in social movement contexts;
(New) facilitators & mediators with time and energy to commit to training & practising conflict mediation;
Those doing, or planning to do cross-cutting campaigning work who need support with the processes of doing this;
Funders who believe in the importance of movement-building and the ‘behind the scenes’ support work of organisations like Tripod, and are up for helping to resource our new strategy.

Please get in touch.

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