Policy Hivemind Hack Day: Code of Conduct

Re-imagining internal organisational policies based on anti-oppressive, care-based, collective principles ain’t easy! Most org policies you will find out there will reproduce a bunch of the wider garbage that our groups and organisations are trying to challenge. To create alternatives we need different starting points.

The RadHR policy library offers a ton of good examples that we can build on, across a wide range of policy areas, but we know that policies need to be more than just the words in a doc. We need spaces to figure out the hard questions together.

An initial email from Granville Community Kitchen, and some follow-up conversations between them and Cooperation Town, have sparked a follow up to our first successful Policy Hack Day in January 2026.

We're gathering this time around a topic that underpins a lot of our policy: the **Code of Conduct. **

This Code of Conduct (CoC) Hack Day is for people from organisations that have a clear set of guiding principles and values in how they operate their core delivery, even if we're in different stages:

• your org may have CoC that feels punitive and out of line with your org's values/principles - and you want this to change,
• your org may feel alienated by the concept of CoC but struggle with handling processes or following policies because you may not have foundations in place,
• your org may in the early stages of thinking about how people in your team interact/work together, and you’d like to write some stuff down that will become the foundation for future policies/procedures.

Whether you have one currently or thinking to change yours up, we'd like to come together:

• for a day in London (Thursday 8 October),
• as a group of folks from smaller community groups, arts orgs, workers co-ops and radical non-profits coming together around Code of Conduct to dream up all the things we’d like to see,
• to have a collective opportunity to think about how we do and don’t want legal, social and financial norms to shape our policies, and
• share in some lovely fresh food

Does this sound appealing? Then sign up now!

We’re specifically focusing this on folks from smaller groups - those with around 20 paid workers or fewer, or who don’t have anyone who can dedicate a good chunk of their time to HR/people practices.

We have some budget to help with travel costs for any of us coming in from out of London, so if you're looking for support with trains or accommodation, we'll do our best to help out.

We’ll be capping tickets at 35 people, so ask that no more than 2 people per group book onto the event, to ensure a wide range of groups can take part.

_ Co-Organised by _ _ RadHR _ _ with _ _ Granville Community Kitchen __ , __ Cooperation Town _ _ and _ _ Mutual Value Labs _