Visio Nova Mundi

Visio Nova Mundi · Tree of Life framework

Our work grows from one framework

The Tree of Life is Visio Nova Mundi’s overarching social-impact framework. It connects projects, research and practical pilots around a shared objective: finding better ways for communities, public services and institutions to work together.

Its branches can explore challenges across areas such as education, health, culture, tourism, justice, transport, agriculture, employment, trade, finance, community development and other public-service systems.

Visio Nova Mundi does not claim to replace governments or existing institutions. Our role is to identify problems, develop practical concepts, test them on a controlled scale, measure what happens and work with appropriate partners where the evidence supports further development.

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A staged approach

How the Tree of Life works

Ideas move forward in stages. Each step gives us a reason to continue, refine the work or stop.

The Tree of Life is intended to develop, test and connect ideas that could contribute to better public services, community systems and institutional collaboration across sectors and countries.

  1. 01Identify a need
  2. 02Design an intervention
  3. 03Run a bounded pilot
  4. 04Measure impact
  5. 05Learn
  6. 06Improve
  7. 07Test again
  8. 08Build evidence for larger implementation

Community & Social Cohesion · a major branch

Unity House Centre — strengthening communities under one roof

The Unity House Centre (UHC) is a major community branch of the Tree of Life. Its long-term concept is to create welcoming local spaces where different communities can meet, learn from one another and work together on practical local challenges.

One of its central themes is waste and resource reintegration: exploring how suitable materials and surplus resources can be redirected into useful community outcomes rather than simply being discarded.

The wider model can also explore food, skills, education, cultural exchange, volunteering, community interaction and other services — but each component is tested separately before becoming part of a larger operating model.

Tree of Life

Community & Social Cohesion

Unity House Centre

  1. Pilot 1
  2. Pilot 2
  3. Pilot 3
  4. Evidence
  5. Validated Centre Model

A validated model is a possible future outcome, not an assumption about current impact.

Current activity · bounded pilot

Testing community impact before building the wider model

The current six-session pilot is an early Unity House Centre discovery programme. It is not the completed Centre. Its purpose is to test assumptions about participation, community interaction, practical activities and potential social impact.

We will use participant feedback, observations and partner input to understand what works, what does not, what safeguards are required and which ideas are worth testing next.

One pilot will not prove the Unity House Centre model.

The intention is to run a sequence of progressively better-defined pilots. Each pilot should answer a specific question and contribute evidence to the overall model. The Unity House Centre should only grow when the evidence, partnerships, safeguarding and financial model support doing so.

Testing now
The awarded scope is six hosted community health and wellbeing sessions for adults in South Waltham Forest during September 2026–March 2027. The pilot is still within its delivery window; this does not mean all sessions have taken place.
Proposed
Further community activities would be designed as separate pilots, with a clear question, suitable partners and agreed safeguards.
Long-term vision
A permanent Unity House Centre model could be considered only if evidence, partnerships, safeguarding and a viable financial model support it.
Read the current pilot scope
Future / proposed pilot

Bringing people together safely

A future pilot could examine whether structured community activities can help reduce isolation and build stronger relationships between people from different backgrounds and generations.

Subject to consent, safeguarding, appropriate insurance, venue arrangements and partner approval, activities could include hosted cultural gatherings, intergenerational sessions, park walks, cooking activities and companionship programmes for older people experiencing isolation.

Activities involving private homes or vulnerable participants would not take place without appropriate risk assessment, safeguarding procedures and clear participant protections.

Learning before expansion

A pilot roadmap shaped by evidence

  1. Testing now

    01 Community interaction

    The current six-session pilot explores hosted community health, wellbeing and practical activities.

  2. Proposed

    02 Safe social connection

    A future pilot could test structured activities to support connection, subject to safeguards and partner approval.

  3. Development

    03 Resource and waste reintegration

    Explore suitable resource pathways with competent partners. No public collection or treatment service is established by the current pilot.

  4. Evidence-led

    Future pilots

    Choose later questions in response to evidence, local need, feasibility and safeguards.

We expect the Unity House Centre concept to evolve through multiple pilots rather than being designed entirely in advance. Each stage gives us more evidence about community need, operational feasibility, cost, safeguarding and measurable impact.