About us
Recurve exists to empower place leaders and foster nationwide renewal.
Our name embodies our mission: to bend the trajectory of communities, cities and regions toward a more prosperous future.
We understand that people are the key to this redemptive mission. By empowering individuals and communities, we aim to foster a future where hope prevails and potential is unleashed.
Our approach is grounded in extensive real experience of policy co-design and delivery, accelerating innovation in public services, and building cross-sector collaborative movements which deliver transformation.
With experience which runs from the heart of government to the front lines of urban innovation, and a two decade track record conceiving, launching, and scaling national-level initiatives which shape the public agenda, our work is built on the authenticity of the practitioner who has navigated the very challenges our clients face.
TESTIMONIAL
“Working with Sam has been brilliant - he has been able to bring in and connect us with some of the best in class in placemaking and ecosystem building for innovation districts. His own experience in the field has been invaluable in informing our longer term strategy for Newcastle Helix - something that we had been struggling to get our heads around until working with him.
“For anyone working in the field of innovation districts, cluster led regeneration, placemaking, ecosystem building or even information gathering towards prospective projects, I would thoroughly recommend contacting Sam for his views and advice.”
- John Seager, Estates Director at Newcastle Helix
Meet the Team
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Sam Markey
FOUNDER & MANAGING DIRECTOR
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Hannah Lazell
ASSOCIATE
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Chris Murray
ASSOCIATE
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Stella Jones
ASSOCIATE
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Alex Cousins
ASSOCIATE
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Michael Edwards
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"Neither revolution nor reformation can ultimately change a society.
Rather you must tell a new powerful tale, one so persuasive that it sweeps away the old myths and becomes the preferred story, one so inclusive that it gathers all the bits of our past and our present into a coherent whole, one that even shines some light into the future so that we can take the next step."
— Ivan llich
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