Thumbprint works to support user-led projects to help them become valid, viable and sustainable. The people involved will decide what purpose their project has - be it money making or leisure, how it runs and in the end when to wind it up.
Thumbprint's view is that the most effective message is practical rather than theoretical; and that evident good practice will create pressure for change and raised standards.
ON LEADERSHIP
Go with the people
Live with them, learn from them.
Start with what they know, build with what they have.
But with the best leaders
When the work is done, the task accomplished
People will say, "We have done this ourselves".
Lao Tsu (5th century BC)