OUR WORK

At Lemon Leopard, our work is about reimagining how we live and relate. We begin from the recognition that we are all related that everyone and everything is interrelated. Our lives, communities, and the wider living world are bound together. From this understanding, we help people cultivate relationships rooted in interrelatedness, and use those relationships to reshape how life is lived from the everyday to the systemic.

Central to this approach is our Radical Coproduction methodology, which shows people how to act from interrelatedness in practice:

• Start from immediate needs: addressing urgent concerns like wages, housing, or climate security.
   
• Reveal interrelatedness: demonstrating that individual needs are linked across communities and systems. This includes people with financial resources, who, by recognising themselves as part of the network of kin, can contribute capital and support to collective solutions.
   
• Introduce collective action and co-ownership: enabling people to see how working together can create shared solutions.
   
• Organise across workplaces, sectors, and borders: showing how interrelatedness at multiple scales can address systemic challenges.
   
• Take grassroots action: transforming local conditions and creating tangible improvements in people’s lives.
   
• Link local and global issues: connecting everyday experiences to broader social, ecological, and economic realities.
   

Through our campaigns, we put Radical Coproduction into practice, translating interrelatedness into tangible impact creating pathways for communities to act collectively, care for each other, and nurture the wider living world. 

At Lemon Leopard, the community is not just a beneficiary it is the engine and architect of our work. From identifying barriers to co-designing solutions, members guide every aspect of the organisation. In this way, decision-making is an expression of our founding principle: we are all related.

We have chosen a holacracy-inspired governance model, distributing authority across interconnected roles rather than centralising power in a hierarchy. Each member holds responsibility within their role, contributing to a dynamic network of accountability and collaboration. This structure mirrors the interdependent web of life, where every part affects and supports the whole.

Through this approach, residents co-manage housing developments, members shape cultural and community spaces, and the collective guides resource allocation and project priorities. Decisions are made collaboratively, yet responsibility is clear, ensuring both agility and integrity in action.

By embedding interrelated governance into the organisation itself, Lemon Leopard demonstrates that living and working in relationship is not just a philosophy it is a practical framework, showing that even complex decisions can reflect the networks, interdependence, and care we seek in our communities and the wider world.