Purpose Inspires Us. Values Drive Us.
Guided by our vision, mission and core values we create meaningful and lasting change.
Our Vision.
Communities Leading Social Innovation
We envision a world where communities design and lead practical, transformative solutions to society’s greatest challenges, from poverty and inequality to climate change and healthcare access.
Our Mission.
We partner with communities to co-design and deliver innovative solutions that build power, resilience, and connection, enabling people to create lasting change in their own lives, in their local systems, and across society.
Our Approach
We work at three interconnected levels:
1. Immediate Support – Meeting urgent needs through accessible, volunteer-led advice and practical
crisis support.
2. Co-Design and Capacity Building – Working with community members to design and deliver better
systems, platforms, and local responses.
3. Systemic Innovation – Using insights from frontline experience to influence policy, practice, and social
innovation globally.
Our Core Values Are:
We’re focused on changing systems, but we’re grounded in the values we share with our communities and supporters.
Innovation
Through Collaboration
We believe innovation thrives when people come together.
We embrace diversity, co-creation, and the power of working across boundaries.
Bold Ambition
We set high aspirations and pursue them with courage.
We’re not afraid to challenge
the status quo or think big for
a better future.
Equity and Inclusion
We amplify the voices and leadership of those often excluded. Our work centres on increasing people’s power, agency, and access to opportunity.
Nurturing Growth
We nurture the potential of every individual and every community, creating pathways for long-term progress and dignity.
Applying Evidence-
Based Practice
We believe in learning by doing. Our strategies are grounded in data, feedback, and shared experience, so we can respond
to real needs, not assumptions.
Promoting Respect
We treat everyone with kindness, compassion, and dignity. Equality, fairness, and shared humanity are at the core of how we work.
Our Principles.
These are the essential conditions we believe every
person and community needs to thrive:
- Food, shelter and safety
- Inclusion and dignity
- Purpose and opportunity
- Good health and access to Universal Health Coverage
- Community development
Our Flagship Program
Advice For Life is our proven model of community-led social innovation in action. For over 12 years, we’ve partnered with 25,000+ individuals and families across the UK, resolving 80,000+ issues through expert advice, guidance and advocacy across housing, benefits, employment, immigration, and family law.
Advice For Life demonstrates our mission by building power through knowledge – empowering people to navigate complex social welfare systems with confidence. Our service provides ongoing support, multilingual advisers, and personalised tools, ensuring no one faces life’s challenges alone.
This flagship program embodies our core values: we amplify excluded voices, build individual and collective power, and create evidence-driven solutions that transform both lives and systems. Advice For Life isn’t just a service – it’s proof that when communities have access to expertise and advocacy, they become architects of their own change.
Our Broader Impact
We partner with communities to build power, expertise, and connections that enable them to design and lead transformative solutions to the challenges they face, creating lasting change that transforms both individual lives and systemic inequities.
Building on the success of Advice For Life, we’re expanding our community-led approach across four additional critical areas:
Mental Health – Creating accessible pathways to emotional wellness and care through community-designed solutions that address both individual needs and systemic barriers
Public Health – Addressing health disparities through community-designed solutions that tackle root causes and build resilient health systems from the ground up
Education – Expanding learning opportunities through innovative approaches that recognise diverse ways of knowing and learning within communities
Community Development – Strengthening local economic and social resilience by building community capacity, fostering local leadership, and creating sustainable pathways to prosperity
Join the Movement
Ready to lead change in your community?
Connect with our global network of social innovators and become part of the solution.
Global Social Innovators.
Contact Us
Opening hours
Monday – Friday: 9.00AM – 5.00PM
Advice For Life
0300 302 0131
advice@globalsocialinnovators.org.uk
Monday – Friday: 9.00AM – 5.00PM
Saturday : 10.00AM – 1.00PM
General Enquiries
0300 302 0344
hello@globalsocialinnovators.org.uk
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