About us
We are a not-for-profit social enterprise on a mission to help create radical change towards more sustainable, equitable and resilient societies.
We provide our partners and clients with specialist services, deliver tailored coaching and training courses, and re-invest into ambitious new projects and programmes.
Our People
Tim Taylor
Director
Tim specialises in guiding communities through transformative change and innovation.
As director of Korimako, Tim focuses on empowering communities to create ambitious collective goals, strategic missions and collaborations to achieve them.
Tim brings key skills and experience across:
- Mission-led change and innovation
- Community development
- Partnership building and transnational collaboration
- Funding and investment models
- Business and organisational model shaping
- Portfolio, programme and project development & management
Tim has a MSc in Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden and has worked on varied projects and programmes in the Western Balkans, New Zealand, UK, Asia and across Europe.
Nina Taylor
Founder and Strategic Lead
Nina has extensive experience developing, managing and delivering sustainability projects in collaboration with public, private and non-governmental organisations. She specialises in bringing a breadth of ideas and possibilities into innovation work, testing new horizons and possible futures.
Nina’s experience and skills cover:
- Community development
- Circular economy
- Project management, bid development and transnational collaboration,
- Strategy development, research and horizon scanning
- Sustainability assessment, data analysis and reportin
Nina has a MSc in Sustainability Science from Lund University in Sweden and has worked across Europe and in New Zealand.
Matic Primc
Community Action Developer
Matic specialises in designing and facilitating participatory processes for independent citizen action and decision-making in local governance.
As a Community Action Developer Matic focuses on Korimako’s work to foster and support citizen-led initiatives in the areas of community energy, mobility, placemaking, housing, food, democracy and holistic neighbourhood transformation.
Matic’s experience covers:
• Community development
• Horizontal deliberation
• Participatory process design and facilitation
• Self-organized community structures
• Participatory budgeting
• Co-operative model development
Matic has led numerous initiatives connected to cooperatives, self-organized communities and participatory democracy. He has collaborated with dozens of municipalities on creating participatory budgeting processes.
Matevž Hrženjak
Programme Manager & Community Advisor
Matevž focuses on expanding the scope of democracy and democratic processes in society, and empowering local communities to advance transformative change.
As Programme Manager and Community Advisor, Matevž helps to ensure our operational excellence in programme and grant management, and contributes to our support for new citizen-led initiatives.
Matevž brings skills and expertise in:
• Activating local communities and youth
• Active citizenship and participatory democracy processes
• Building alternative community-based models and structures
• Project and programme management
• Grant management, evaluation and reporting
Matevž has collaborated with various domestic and international NGOs, public institutions, and schools in Slovenia – with the aim of building a fairer and more democratic society. He has a MA in history, BA in English language, and soon expects to gain a PhD in history from the University of Ljubljana.
Work with Us!
Services
We support organisations and communities with advisory, coaching, capacity development and delivery services covering the following areas:
Capacity Development
We run professional training sessions that connect together the services we offer and areas we work in. These trainings can be tailored to specific audience, context, needs and budget.
We specialise in delivering engaging training courses on:
- mission-led community change and innovation
- neighbourhood regeneration
- community energy
- just transitions and new economics
- community placemaking
- regenerative bioeconomies.
We believe that using mission-led approaches is a powerful way to help unlock radical change for our communities. A mission-led approach forces us to focus on doing what must be done to respond to the challenges facing us, rather than limiting ourselves to presumptions about what we think can be done. This is an important shift in mindset and approach, but it is hard. So we offer an intensive 2-day Masterclass in Mission-led Community Change. Check our news page for more info on upcoming editions.
Korimako is registered in Slovenia as a non-profit institute: Korimako – zavod za svetovanje in stateško načrtovanje, Goriški Vrh (Matična Številka 8794847000); and also in New Zealand as a limited liability company operating as a social enterprise: Korimako Ltd (Company #5421764). Korimako operated as a Community Interest Company in the UK 2016-18). These entities are under aligned governance, but they are not legally connected.
Zavod Korimako is certified as equivalent to a Certified Public Charity in the USA.
Get in Touch
If our work interests you, then do contact us to discuss how we might collaborate
