Shared Assets �Delivery Plan�2025-2028

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Working with people and land for a just future

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Strategy summary

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Strategy 2025-2030

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During 2024-25 we developed a 5 year strategy which includes:�

• Our system change approach
• Theory of change
• Values and principles
• Our role as movement infrastructure
• Who we work with and value exchange
• Policy context / PESTLE / SWOT analyses
• Goals and objectives
• Activities
• How we work and how we centre justice
• Financial model
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Communications strategy

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A systems change approach

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Taking a systems change approach

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The Berkana Institute ‘Two Loops’ model shows the curves of the dominant system dying and a new system rising to replace it.

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We are applying this model to our approach to changing the land system.

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The emergent system forms as new approaches connect and form networks and communities of practice, growing their influence and eventually superseding the old.

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At the same time, the dominant system declines, and there is work to do in supporting the death and composting of the elements that won’t be carried forward.

�Parts of the dominant system - including its resources - need to make the transition to the new, adapting to the emerging paradigm and find their place in the emergent system.

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System outcomes

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Land is seen and treated as a common good not a commodity���

Our land system is fair, regenerative and just

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People are able to create livelihoods with the land that benefit them, the land and their communities�

Communities are able to influence land use decisions that impact them

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Everyone is able to feel a sense of belonging to the land

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The outcomes we are aiming to achieve for a transformed land system are:

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Supporting system �change

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Movement building: ��building relationships and infrastructure that:

put pressure on the dominant system to change / die��build new ways of working in the emergent system

Communications:��raising awareness of the emergent system to the dominant system��sharing information across the emergent system

Research:��developing knowledge of / with the emergent system ��and pioneers in the dominant system ��to inform the transition

Advice and support:

helping the pioneers scale, grow and transition to the new system

Resourcing and relationships:��building relationships with and securing resources from the dominant system to support the development of the emergent system

We have developed a suite of work streams that - working together and individually - support the work of changing the land system to deliver our system objectives and to provide the infrastructure to support and develop a wider movement for change.

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These are:

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Advice and support�

Research�

Movement building �

Communications�

Resourcing and relationships

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Goals and objectives

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Three horizons model

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The Three Horizons Model helps visualize change by mapping current systems, emerging innovations, and transformative future visions across three time horizons.

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We identified that our objectives for a future land system as set out in our theory of change fitted within this model as follows:

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Horizon 1 (addressing immediate needs)

• People are able to create livelihoods with the land that benefit them, the land and their communities.
• Everyone is able to feel a sense of belonging to the land.

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Horizon 2 (mechanisms to disrupt the current system)

• All communities are able to influence land use decisions that impact them.

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Horizon 3 (long term outcomes)

• Our land system is fair, regenerative and just

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Outcomes, goals and objectives

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We identified that in this strategy we wish to focus on delivering the long terms systems Outcomes in Horizons 1 & 2 as a way of working towards our Horizon 3 Outcomes.

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We identified 10 year Strategic Goals for these 3 outcomes and added a 4th outcome which is focussed on the development of the organisation.

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We then identified 5 year Objectives for each of the 10 year goals.

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Work planning & themes

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We have identified a number of themes under which to organise our work - each of which will contribute to the delivery of one or more of our 5 year objectives

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• Private land ownership and use�
• Public land ownership and use�
• Community ownership and use�
• Local mobilisation �
• National movement building �
• Decision making and governance �
• Organisational development

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Values and principles

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Values

The work we do as an organisation is founded on the values of:�

• Care: we take care of each other, the work, our partners and clients

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• Solidarity: we work actively to support and resource the work of others who share our ambitions for a more just, fair and regenerative land system and recognise how these are connected to historic and international struggles for land justice.

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• Justice: we work to dismantle the root causes of systemic inequality within the current land system, centring the experiences and needs of marginalised groups, particularly those who have been historically excluded from power and resources. �
• Transformation: we aim to fundamentally alter the structures and systems that perpetuate inequality and injustice within the land system, rather than simply addressing individual cases of harm.

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Principles

The principles that guide how we do the work, and relevant to each member of the team, are:�

• Autonomy: we should have the power to decide our own actions and enable others to do the same.�
• Accountability: we are responsible internally and externally for ourselves, our work, our intentions, our words and our actions.

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• Bravery: we are willing to challenge the status quo and invite and support ourselves and others to work through difficult conversations and experiences together.�
• Pragmatism: we recognise and work with the complexity and constraints of undertaking and supporting systemic change.�
• Intersectionality: we recognise that the interconnected nature of race, class, sexuality, disability, gender and other identity characteristics create overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage.�

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Infrastructure for an emerging land movement

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Infrastructure for an emerging land movement

When we established in 2011 the land movement in the UK - outside of Scotland - was very underdeveloped and land was not a matter for political discussion or debate. The nature of the current land system was rarely questioned.

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In 2016 we worked with others to host Land For What? - a two day event which attracted over 400 attendees and featured a range of sessions, speakers, and interactions, exploring the intersection of land ownership, social justice, and environmental stewardship. The event led to the establishment of the Land Justice Network.

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When the Land Justice Network ceased operating around the middle of 2020 Shared Assets developed a fuller role as infrastructure of the wider land justice movement.

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We undertook the system mapping for The Land Justice UK website as a directory, signposting people to other active groups and resources in the UK land justice ecosystem. Since then we have:

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• Acted as fiscal hosts for Land in Our Names and Right To Roam Campaign, supporting them to incorporate develop as organisations
• Been founding partners of Digital Commons Cooperative and LandMatch England
• Supported the establishment of House of Annetta
• Been hosting an annual Land Justice Gathering
• Been co-facilitating the Justice Strand at the annual Oxford Real Farming Conference

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Today there is a more established - although still emergent - land justice movement, land use and land access is once again a matter of public policy and debate, and there is growing literature about land ownership, land access and the colonial legacies of land ownership.

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We are developing our infrastructure role through:

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Fiscal hosting �Coaching and capacity building

Supporting / initiating the development of new organisations

Information sharing �Narrative development

Development of shared communications platforms

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To deliver our role, we:

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groups and communities currently stewarding land, for peer-peer learning, to develop their projects and campaigns, and to rest and recuperate

information and best practice, raising general awareness of the need for a fair land system to underpin a fair society

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Activities

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Activities

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In our strategy we identify a number of themes which all our activities should be seeking to address:�

• Private land ownership and use
• Public land ownership and use
• Community land ownership and use
• Local mobilisation
• National movement building
• Decision making and governance
• Internal organisational development

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Below we set out activities that we will aim to undertake during 2025-28 in order to contribute to the delivery of our 5 year objectives

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Private land ownership and use

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Public land ownership and use

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Community land ownership and use

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Local mobilisation

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National movement building

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Decision making and governance

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Internal organisational development

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Ongoing activities

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Alongside these proactive projects that we will pursue in order to achieve our strategic objectives we will continue to undertake more reactive work (responding to commercial and grant funded opportunities that broadly support the delivery of our objectives).

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We will also continue to undertake:

• Communications
• Marketing of services
• Resourcing and relationships development

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We can’t do this work alone!

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If you’re inspired by what you see here,�and would like to work together�to create a more just land system,

please get in touch:

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hello@sharedassets.org.uk

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Thank you!

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