Medact’s Organisational Strategy 2025–2030: How we grow
We know that action often comes first from connection to your community, not from political conviction, and that your beliefs and ideals are most effectively built in community with others. We want Medact to be an open door for people in the health community looking to learn, understand and take action for health justice. To win in our Priority Areas we need to grow at scale. This doesn’t simply mean more people – it means building community, skills and political analysis together, lifting each other up and holding space for new folks to join our movement.
We operate a membership model because we want people to feel connected to Medact over the long term, participate in developing our strategy, lead our organising work and contribute to a model of collective financial stability. We want to see more people becoming members of Medact because we offer them a community and political home alongside the skills and resources to challenge the systems that drive health inequity.
Inherently this process must be led-by our membership. We expect new approaches to emerge over the years as we tend to and grow our community. The intentions below are just a starting point for this work in the coming years.
We will:
- Expand the range of people who view Medact as a home – with a particular focus on diversifying our current, doctor-heavy, base
- Develop structures that better connect members across our campaigns and groups, and that facilitate Medact becoming increasingly member-led – initially this will look like more in-person gatherings and improving democratic decisionmaking across our movement.
- Create more spaces for members and supporters to build political community through shared learning from peers and allies – we will run regular events exploring the health justice angle on current events; we have established a member-led Political Education Working Group, who will lead on this work
- Develop our membership offer, being clearer about the benefits membership entails and why individual contributions are vital for Medact to survive and be able to prioritise effective work
