Carnegie UK Strategy for Change

In 2020-2021, Carnegie UK staff and trustees undertook a detailed review of how best to pursue our mission over the coming years. “Learning how to live well together” is the resulting strategy document which put our wellbeing mission back at the heart of all our work and articulated a set of aims, values and principles which now guide and shape all Carnegie UK’s activities.

In setting up Carnegie UK in 1913, Andrew Carnegie said that he expected his trustees to take stock from time to time to ensure that their approach was still relevant to the evolving social context.  In modern times, Carnegie UK trustees and staff have adopted a 5-year rhythm of strategic review, conducting sometimes light-touch and sometimes more fundamental assessments of what the organisation does and how.

Carnegie UK Strategy for Change – Learning how to live well together

The 2020-2021 review was one of the more comprehensive examinations. It resulted in the “Learning how to live well together” publication which put the founding “wellbeing” mission explicitly back at the heart of Carnegie’s work, but in a way that has been reinterpreted for the current day.

The 2021 strategy drew on a decade’s worth of work to understand what influences wellbeing. It introduced our SEED (social, economic, environmental and democratic) model for collective wellbeing, and proposed a set of Wellbeing Tests, certain conditions and practices which advance wellbeing when they are in place.

This statement of aims, principles and values is used to guide the decisions that we make at Carnegie UK about how we work and what we work on year to year.

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