Why choose Zebra?
When you choose to work with Zebra, you choose an experienced team committed to high quality work, and who believe that, working together, we can have some impact towards a more just and sustainable society.
What does Zebra Do? Explore our website to find out!
Why do we do it? We are driven by our 6 principles that can be found here.
Our commitment to equality is articulated in our Sustainable Social Justice Policy. We address social justice and environmental sustainability within one policy because we recognise how interdependent and mutually reinforcing these two imperatives have become.
Social Justice
Zebra is known in our home city of Plymouth and beyond as an activist organisation, committed to be a social justice conscience in any event or initiative in which we’re involved.
Social justice analysis underpins all our work and in every context we aim to raise awareness - and self-awareness - of how unrecognised and unacknowledged power and privilege operate, alongside unconscious bias, frequently resulting in unwitting discrimination.
We also strive to highlight the harsh realities of the socio-economic systems in which people find themselves and which, beyond their control, oppress and can lead to people internalising their problems (“It’s my own fault” – “I deserve it” – “I’m a bad person”) and being held responsible for them.
Our Solution-focused Approach
It's against this backdrop that we utilise our solution-focused approach, to ensure the focus is on the individual’s / group’s best hopes, strengths and possibilities; and to seek out and amplify their coping, resilience and progress despite these oppressive challenges: ‘Given this social injustice, and how it impacts on you, what are your best hopes? And meanwhile – how do you cope?’.
Further discussion about our social justice and solution-focused approach features in: Shennan, G. and Gardiner, M. (2018) Collectivising solution-focused practice, Critical and Radical Social Work, 6(3): 419–24,