FabRiders supports social change organisations in developing and implementing strategies that are participatory, practical, and grounded in real-world complexity. These strategies are co-created with those who understand the work best: board members, staff, partners, and communities, ensuring they feel ownership, understood, and prepared to act.
Collaborating with your stakeholders
We design every engagement to involve the right people at the right times, in ways that respect time constraints, power dynamics, and organisational culture. Processes usually include tailored spaces for board governance discussions, staff reflection and decision-making, partner input, and, where suitable, beneficiary or community perspectives.
- Board: Clarifying direction, mandate, and risk appetite, and ensuring alignment between governance and strategy.
- Staff: Making sense of the context, highlighting lessons from past strategies, and shaping priorities and ways of working.
- Partners and networks: Testing relevance, grounding choices in lived realities, and strengthening collaboration pathways.
Ways FabRiders can assist you
FabRiders offers flexible strategy support, ranging from light-touch advice to comprehensive strategic planning processes.
- Strategy advice and sounding board: Short, targeted engagements to test an existing strategy, reflect on implementation, or prepare for key board or donor discussions.
- Strategy review and refresh: Structured processes to review learnings, involve staff and board, and update existing strategies so they are clearer, more focused, and easier to implement.
- Complete strategic planning process: End-to-end assistance—from designing the process and facilitating consultations to synthesising priorities and drafting the plan—delivered within an agreed, time-bound window.
- Implementation support: Facilitation and coaching to help teams translate strategy into work plans, meetings, and decisions, while integrating simple reflection and learning loops into everyday practice.
How the process feels
FabRiders’ approach is collaborative, structured, and light on bureaucracy: it provides enough process to bring clarity and momentum, without overwhelming participants. Sessions are designed to be energising and inclusive, encouraging honest conversations, shared ownership, and a better understanding of the organisation’s direction and reasons. One recent client mentioned that completing a fully participatory, multi-stakeholder strategy in under four months left them feeling proud of the outcome and more connected as a team, ready to implement the plan.