Unearthodox has published its Annual Report 2024, reflecting a pivotal year in which new ideas, partnerships and experiments began to take root across its growing innovation portfolio.

“2024 was a year of slowly bringing to life the three pillars of our portfolio with those who have resisted being defined or victimised by our current systems. Those who exercise their agency in powerful ways and who push us to think again. Those ready to innovate in unusual and sometimes provocative ways.” Melanie Ryan, CEO of Unearthodox

Throughout the year, Unearthodox deepened its commitment to reframing regeneration as a practice grounded in equity, diverse knowledge systems and long-term systems change. Key highlights include the launch of the Innovation Portfolio Strategy 2024-2026, with significant progress made across all three new programmes: the flagship Regenerative Futures programme, the transformative Exploration Co-Lab and the more forward-thinking Creative Futures for Nature. 

We continued to test unconventional approaches through projects such as Sci-Fi, AI and the Futures for Nature, the global Voices of Regeneration call, and an in-person retreat, which brought together artists, thinkers and practitioners from around the world to co-imagine more equitable futures for nature, including people.

“I have longed for spaces and community where the search for answers falls away, and we can hold the tension of being in the questions, let the contraction of protection soften, and make space for something yet unknown to emerge.” Marika Heinrichs, Wildbody, participant at the Regenerative Futures retreat

Internally, Unearthodox advanced its Monitoring, evaluation, learning and change (MELC) framework and deepened its work on justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) across all programmes.

If 2023 was a year of laying foundations, then 2024 was the year where those foundations started to support real, tangible growth – new ideas, collaborations and experiments that stretch beyond sustainability toward regeneration, equity and justice.

As Unearthodox looks ahead, it aims to expand this momentum, continuing to support bold ideas, nurture collaborative communities and create the conditions for transformative change.