Stewarding Catalyst’s Legacy: an invitation

7^th November 2025

Ellie Hale

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Catalyst’s legacy belongs to the network. You can help sustain and grow it.

⏲️ Submission deadline: Tues 18 November, 5pm

📝 Submissions: Expression of interest form

As Catalyst CIC moves towards closure in March 2026, we’ve been reflecting on what it means for our collective work to continue. Over the years, a community of people and organisations has built a connected infrastructure of shared tools, relationships, and practices centred around justice, care and collaboration. These have created lasting value – and we believe they have much more to offer.

We want to make sure these resources live on in ways that serve the wider field of tech justice. Many were built to be shared, adapted and reused by others. So, as we close, we’re inviting those working toward digital equity to consider stewarding parts of Catalyst’s legacy.

A note of thanks

We’re grateful to those who contributed ideas through our first round of closure consultations, which helped shape this next step.

What stewardship means to us

Stewarding can be active or passive. You might host and maintain a part of the legacy, ensuring it stays accessible. Or you might use it as a foundation for new collaboration, content, events, or networks. We’re open to creative directions, provided they align with Catalyst’s values of love, equity, curiosity and interdependence.

This opportunity sits within the wider movement for tech justice. Catalyst has been one of many threads in a movement of people working towards more just and inclusive digital systems. Stewarding its legacy is a way to strengthen that shared ecosystem.

Assets and activities available

Catalyst’s legacy includes assets, activities and ways of working. We welcome interest from people and organisations keen to sustain, reuse, or develop:

The Catalyst website (and domain), as a living record of our shared learning. Including its library of tech justice resources.
Catalyst’s Medium publication, home to network-authored articles exploring tech justice, collective empowerment and liberation.
The Catalyst Handbook, documenting care-driven, value-led ways of working inside organisations (currently a Notion site that is not accessible to the public)
The Funder Forum, a space for dialogue among funders supporting or interested in tech justice.
The Circle model, a developing model for equitable, shared decision-making (developed by the Tech Justice Circle).
Find a Funder, an open directory linking tech justice projects and organisations with relevant funders.
The Tech Justice Evidence Repository, a tagged resource mapping tech injustices across the UK.

Some of these may be best preserved as archives, while others will have room to evolve through new partnerships and ideas.

We’re working on a budget to support legacy work. Our intention is to finalise this before the end of November.

Who we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from individuals or organisations whose work aligns with tech justice values. The most important thing is that you have energy and care for ensuring this work continues to ripple outwards. Stewarding a Catalyst asset should feel like a natural extension of your mission – something that strengthens what you already do and helps the wider field to thrive

Our decisions will be guided by Catalyst’s values and by the original intentions of those who contributed content and effort. Catalyst’s spirit has always favoured collaboration so we welcome joint expressions of interest.

How to get involved

If you or your organisation are interested in stewarding any part of Catalyst’s legacy, please fill in the form below by 5pm on Tuesday 18 November.

We’re keeping the process flexible and open to learning as we go. This step is only about expressing interest, not making a commitment. We’ll get back to you in late-November or December about next steps, and we expect to make decisions in January.

📝 Expression of interest form

We know there’s much about the stewarding process and budget we don’t yet have answers to. But we’ll share more as the process takes shape. We are committed to ensuring Catalyst’s legacy continues to serve the movement for digital and tech justice in meaningful, living ways.