Our mission

Entertainment shapes how we see and understand the world.

A gripping drama, your favourite sitcom, an immersive indie game: the stories we watch and play stay with us. If stories shape how we see the world, they should be informed by people who understand it best. That’s where we come in.

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Bring experts in early

We connect experts and people with lived experience with creative teams while stories are still taking shape.
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Open up the creative process

More voices in the room means more ideas, and fewer blind spots in what gets made.
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Create lasting change

We build communities and share practical tools, so creative teams and experts can keep working together in the long term.
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Understand the impact

Our research shows how entertainment is evolving, and what that means for storytellers and audiences.

OKRE works to change the systems that shape how entertainment is made, understood and experienced.

OKRE harnesses the power of entertainment for the benefit of society.

OKRE brings together academic research, lived experience and creativity so that people understand the world and each other better.

OKRE's work is designed to build communities, deliver professional development and generate insights.

OKRE transforms how the entertainment industry works with experts, building the relationships, knowledge and tools needed to drive lasting systems change.

We connect creatives, researchers, charities, people with lived experience, industry leaders and experts, bringing diverse perspectives together to spark new ideas, build meaningful collaborations and shape more impactful entertainment from the very start.

We believe entertainment has enormous influence over how we see ourselves, each other and the world around us. Bringing different perspectives and expertise into the creative process can lead to richer, more authentic and engaging stories.

But lasting change comes from changing the conditions around those stories: who gets to be in the room, how ideas are developed, when research and expertise come in, and how different parts of the industry work together. That’s systems change in practice: shifting the relationships, structures and ways of working that shape what gets made and whose voices are heard.

Alongside this, OKRE researches the impact of entertainment and supports the sector to understand and measure it, developing practical tools and frameworks that turn insight into action. By bringing people, ideas and evidence together, we help change the way the industry works, unlocking more of what entertainment can do.

Organisations like OKRE are absolutely fundamental… it’s what’s going to drive a different type of storytelling, more representation. It cannot be just one group figuring that out, it’s got to be people who have lived experience, academics, the nonprofit sector and the big entertainment companies.

Samir Patel

CEO, Comic Relief
Find out more about what we do:

OKRE Summit

The OKRE Summit is an invite-only, focused conference bringing together the people who shape what gets made in entertainment and why.

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OKRE Creative Labs

Funding creative collaboration to transform practice, develop new ideas and embed lasting change.

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OKRE Signal

A research led consultancy focused on understanding and unlocking the impact of entertainment.

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