About us

We exist to make sure no community is left out of the decisions that shape their lives.

People Street is a community interest company working across the UK. Building on more than twenty years of practice, we bridge the gap between systems and the communities they too often struggle to reach.

A People Street community engagement session

Our story

We campaign for Design Justice. It's a simple conviction: the people closest to a problem understand it best and must be centred in decisions that affect their lives.. Over two decades we have built a network of trusted outreach leaders, facilitators and community researchers, who listen, gather and translate lived experience into evidence that systems can act on.

Today we work across asylum & migration, health and mental wealth, poverty and financial literacy, climate justice and inclusive technology. We lead community development projects in East London alongside supporting government bodies, universities, NHS organisations and researchers to engage the communities that matter most. We unite bottom-up experiences with top-down perspectives to agitate, disrupt and innovate the civic engagement landscape.

What we believe

Design Justice

Lived experience is evidence. The voices of communities most negatively impacted/excluded by a policy, product, service or pathway must be centred in the design, testing and evaluation of the policy, service, product or pathway.

Trust is earned

We show up, listen and follow through. Relationships come before research. We value reciprocity and mutuality. We don't reach out to people because you 'need' them. We offer them opportunities to take action because we want to shift power back to the communities.

Inclusion by design

Design WITH the communities most at risk of exclusion and roll it out to everyone! Bake the inclusion into the design and make products and services we all want to use.

Our people

Led by community, backed by expertise

A multi-disciplinary team alongside a network of more than 150 outreach leaders and community researchers across the UK. We are a Global Majority, female-led organisation. We are representative of the communities we serve. We are People Street.