Reflexive Roots CIC was founded in 2025 to address a gap across youth and community services in the UK: the lack of clear, values-led frameworks that enable frontline organisations to support young people and communities impacted by trauma, violence, and racial injustice. Too often, responses are limited to crisis management or short-term interventions, without building the long-term capacity needed for healing, resilience, and community power. Reflexive Roots exists to fill that gap.

Our mission is to build the capacity and resilience of young people, communities, and organisations by delivering support, strategy, and learning that strengthen community power, embed political clarity, and enable youth work practice rooted in care and justice. We envision a world where communities have the tools and confidence to repair harm, challenge oppressive systems, and build new ways of living grounded in collective care and self-determination.

Our work is grounded in over a decade of grassroots youth and community organising in peacebuilding, political education, and systemic change. We centre our work on the 4Front approach, a practical framework built around three interconnected pillars. Building peace through trust, care, and healing-centred support. Building knowledge through political education, rights, and life skills often absent from mainstream provision. Building power through collective action and system-level change. Reflexive Roots carries this learning forward, making it accessible to a wider range of communities and organisations.