Rooted Innovation Limited (Rooted) is using funding to develop spaces for Black people to connect heal process the impact of Covid-19 and unlock social imagination and action as well as creating a framework which enables other leaders and organisations to hold spaces that facilitate connection and social imagination. The project will be delivered in London Birmingham and Manchester and will build the capabilities of Black-led organisations/leadership to take design-led approaches to solving problems and creating a series of engagements that mobilises and connects problems solvers across the country who want to advance racial equity using design approaches.