The Arkitrek Camps deliver innovative and inspirational design to social and environmental organisations free of charge. We can do this by running projects as an educational program. Here’s how the Camps program evolved.

In true Arkitrekking fashion, Arkitrek trekked into the forest around Lupa Masa last week to “Forget Time, Think Arkitrek.” Everyone had thought of something they wanted to impart to their colleagues and had designed a task around this. Nick was first to kick things off with his programme: ‘Building Engineering Basics for Architects – Buildings [...]

How we define our social objectives and how we measure the success of these has been the subject of long debate over the last year. We finally feel like we are getting somewhere. Here is the first draft of the Arkitrek Manifesto that seeks to outline who we are and what we stand for.

The key difference of a social business is what you do with the profits. This blog is a summary of what I’ve learned so far about setting up a social business and it goes into financial stuff that I’m only beginning to understand. It does not purport to be authoritative. Read on if you’re interested and if perhaps you have some advice to give.