About Us
We broaden what people think possible
Shared Horizon is a social enterprise that helps people imagine and build better futures. We collaborate with people and organisations interested in long-term thinking and systems change - to democratise who defines the future.
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Our mission is to create a world where every person recognises that a different way is possible – that centres life, meaning and respect for the living world.
The challenge
Why we exist
We live in a time of crises. The pace of change is faster than we can adapt to, and while many of these problems are not new, they are almost impossible to manage together. Ideas about how to confront these challenges, even transform in response, are gaining traction. Many believe that a better future is possible. But efforts are too slow to match the scale of what's needed, working within the existing system rather than questioning the assumptions that created it.
Most of us sense this - that we need change in how we live, work and treat the world around us. And beneath that, a deeper shift: in how people think, what we value and what we believe is possible. But picturing what that looks like is hard. Not because people don't care, or because of a lack of intelligence or ambition. But because the narrative is bleak. The challenges feel so vast that imagining a better future feels naive. Daily pressures crowd out space. And human minds aren't wired for positive, long-term thinking.
This is the imagination gap - knowing we need to change but being unable to envision what that change looks like. It limits ambition, agency and collective ownership of solutions. And it runs upstream from politics.
Where we come in
Our role
At Shared Horizon, we're focused on broadening what people think possible. Most have never been asked what a good future looks like - let alone been given the space to negotiate that vision with what we know is coming.
Our work cuts across strategic foresight, creative arts and media, and advocacy to create the cultural conditions for people to think differently - and to make a different future feel not just necessary, but alive. Tangible. Already present in the world around us.
We support people to envision positive, just futures that respect planetary limits; collect data - quantitative and qualitative - on how people think about the future and what they imagine when supported; flood public space with different, credible visions of how the world could be - and already is; and advocate for long-term thinking in policy.
But infrastructure alone isn't enough. Cultural change doesn't happen in isolation or driven by information alone - it spreads through what we see in the people around us. We need moments - beacons that tell a different story - to show that a different way is possible. This is the work we're not yet doing at scale. And it's where Shared Horizon begins.
Our Values
What we stand for
Our values guide every collaboration and decision
Joy
We go further together with joy than with fear. We're not just working towards a better future - we're trying to live it.
Equity
We believe the future belongs to everyone, not just those with the privilege of time and access.
Determination
We're not here for quick wins. We're building towards something - consistently, seriously, for the long haul.
Our Team
The people behind the work
Focused on Foresight, creative arts and advocacy
Our History
Timeline
Shared Horizon grew out of a body of work, launching in October 2025. In the months since, we have engaged with Chatham House, the University of Oxford and more, and co-organised a parliamentary event to help establish a UK Committee for the Future. This is what the first chapter looks like.
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2024
Encounter strategic foresight
An introduction to futures thinking during the World Youth Environment Assembly, contributing to a UN Environment Programme and International Science Council publication - Navigating New Horizons.
2025
First futures workshop
Crafting the Future We Choose at the Natural History Museum's Generation Hope Programme, co-facilitated with Daphne Frias. The seed of what becomes Shared Horizon.
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2025
Building the method
A series of futures thinking workshops delivered across the University of Oxford, working with students and academic cohorts to develop and refine the methodology. Research and practice developing in parallel - each session informing the next.
2025
Shared Horizon established
After a year of workshops, partnerships and publication, the work becomes a formal entity. Imagine Better Together CIC registered with Companies House, trading as Shared Horizon.
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2025
Public Workshops
Futures thinking taken beyond institutional settings - opening the practice to community participants for the first time.
2025
Oxford Climate Ventures
Shared Horizon accepted onto Oxford Climate Ventures - a 12-week accelerator delivered by Oxford Saïd Business School and the ZERO Institute, supporting ventures from concept to launch. The programme concludes with a live pitching event.
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2026
Supporting Emerging Leaders
Workshops and engagements with Chatham House, UCL, Teach the Future, Anthropy and the UK Civil Service Climate and Environment Network - bringing futures thinking to the next generation of leaders across academia, policy and civic life.
2026
UK Committee for the Future
A parliamentary event co-organised with SOIF, the Fairness Foundation, King's College Policy Institute and others, to help establish a UK Committee for the Future - bringing futures thinking into the heart of democratic institutions.
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2026
Climate Courage
Shared Horizon accepted into Climate Courage - a Climate Live x Youth Climate Collaborative programme equipping young people with the tools to understand and process climate anxiety.
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