Community-powered insights
Building a better tomorrow for everyone, everywhere.
We're People Street. We are reshaping the civic engagement landscape with an evidence-based, community-led approach. From research conversations to influencing government digital services to running grassroots engagement projects, we centre the people that most organisations leave behind.
We turn lived experience into evidence that changes systems and tackles inequity.
For over two decades our networks have built genuine trust with communities that traditional methodologies struggles to reach. We listen first, then translate what we hear into insight institutions can act on. We create the context for communities to design and embed the solutions that work for them.
→ Rooted in community→ Rigorous & evidence-led→ Built for real change
Find your path
Why are you here?
Tell us who you are and we'll take you straight to what matters most.
Funders & Foundations
See our impact and where your investment goes furthest.
Explore impact →Researchers & Academics
Partner on rigorous, community-rooted studies.
Research with us →Government & Public Sector
Reach under-heard communities with confidence, respect and trust.
See our services →Tech Partners & Investors
Back every1, our AI for inclusive health communication. Building the bias out of AI.
Discover every1 →What we do
Four ways we create change
01 Community-led research
A network of trained community researchers gathers insight from the inside, not the outside, producing evidence with reach and authenticity that conventional methods miss. Tackling health inequality, from cancer screening to climate justice and welfare reform, turning findings into practical tools and policy influence.
02 Engagement & co-design
We bring communities and people representing organisation to the same table, co-designing services and campaigns that actually fit the people they're meant to serve.
03 Centre for Design Justice
Our community development arm focused on building agency through creative action. We support the capacity for community leadership. We create the conditions for communities to actively shape, disrupt, create and agitate.
04 Inclusive technology
We put decades of intersectional insight into a range of processes that support teams designing services, pathways and products to reach everyone in thoughtful, meaningful ways.
Inclusive technology
Meet every1
An AI built on real intersectional insight, helping public health teams communicate with diverse communities about the topics that are too often misunderstood or stigmatised.
- → Grounded in lived community knowledge, not assumptions
- → Built for sensitive, hard-to-say health conversations
- → A genuinely new product for partners to offer their audiences
Our work in action
Evidence that moves things forward
Knowledge Hub
Reports, insight & stories
Method Statement: Genomics in Healthcare
At People Street, our work on Genomics, Healthcare & You is grounded in a simple belief: the decisions we make today must honour and protect future generations. We draw on Roman Krznaric’s The Good Ancestor to guide our long-term approach, rooting our methodology in community wisdom, intergenerational responsibility, and design justice.
ReportOur Voice on Climate, Justice & Spivak
East London is where People Street began. It's a place shaped by industry, by generations of migration, by rivers and low-lying land, and now, more and more, by climate change. Heatwaves hit tower blocks hardest. Air pollution settles unevenly, street by street with pollution rates intensifying since the opening of Silvertown tunnel. Climate change is not felt equally across London. And climate research and climate policy don't always ask the right people the right questions. We've been listening to Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's 2025 conversation “Learning From Below,” where she turns to the planet itself, to what she calls planetarity. Her ideas are not easy. But they help us think more clearly about what climate justice actually asks of us, and how that connects to the work we do with communities across East London.
ReportOur Voice on Learning to Learn from Below
In January 2026, we wrote a blog about Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's essay Can the Subaltern Speak? It asked us hard questions about who gets heard, and what we are really doing when we say we are “listening.” Since then, we've been listening to something new. In June 2025, Spivak sat down in Oslo for a conversation called “Learning From Below,” as part of the Holberg Prize. In it, she goes further into one word: subaltern. What it means. Who it applies to. And what it asks of people like us, who do research and outreach for a living. This blog doesn't repeat what we said last time. It goes deeper into just one idea, so we can be clearer and more careful in how we use it.
Let's build a better tomorrow, together.
Whether you fund, research, govern or build, there's a place for you here.
Get in touch