Our Vision
We believe in a future beyond racialised criminalisation - where communities are free, safe, and thriving through care, repair, collective wellbeing, and community power.
Across the UK, Black communities and other communities targeted by racism and criminalisation have been harmed by systems that punish instead of support, control instead of care, and isolate instead of heal.
At the same time, communities have always been creating different possibilities - rooted in care, dignity, accountability and collective power.
Harm to Healing exists to strengthen that work.
Harm to Healing was shaped by the findings of the From Harm to Healing report, which brought together the experiences, insights and leadership of communities impacted by racialised criminalisation.
The report highlighted the deep harms caused by systems of punishment, while also pointing to the healing, care and community-led solutions already emerging across the country. It called for stronger connections, sustained resourcing and collective infrastructure to support this work. Harm to Healing was created to help grow that ecosystem - strengthening the relationships, leadership and imagination needed to build systems of healing, safety and justice.
Over the past two years, Harm to Healing has been in a seed phase - a period of learning, building and strengthening the work already happening across our communities. During this time, we supported and resourced grassroots organisations, campaigns and community initiatives led by people directly impacted by racialised criminalisation. We also created spaces for community members to come together, connect and shape a shared vision for moving from harm to healing.
What we do
Harm to Healing grows the conditions needed for transformation. We bring people, organisations and movements into relationship. We strengthen leadership and collective power in communities impacted by criminalisation. This work is rooted in community leadership, collective imagination and long-term change.
Harm to Healing is helping to grow an ecosystem of communities, organisers, leaders, artists, healers, researchers, campaigners and organisations working together to move from harm to healing.
By connecting people, sharing knowledge and strengthening collective power, we are laying the foundations for a different future. This work belongs to all of us.
Harm to Healing is grounded in values forged through generations of resistance, survival and imagination. We are community-led and rooted in self-determination, building on the wisdom and leadership of those most impacted by racialised criminalisation. We are visionary and intergenerational - we create space for elders and young people to lead together. We are rooted in a politics of care, healing and joy, recognising that liberation requires rest, repair and collective wellbeing.
How we move
Big Ideas, Real Impact.
Whether you are directly impacted by criminalisation, organising in your community, supporting change, or looking for ways to contribute - there is a place for you here.Together, we can build systems of healing, safety and justice that transform harm.
We believe our communities already hold the answers. For generations, we have resisted criminalisation and built infrastructures of survival, care, and healing. This legacy of resistance and repair is the foundation of Harm to Healing.
We believe healing is not a destination but a journey. To heal, we must dismantle the systems that harm us and build new ones that nurture wellbeing, freedom, and justice.
We believe those most impacted must lead the way. Transformation cannot be handed down from above - it must be created from the ground up, rooted in community leadership and collective power.