Democracy suffers when we avoid tough conversations. 

Join Compass and Who is Your Neighbour? (WiYN?) for an event at the Festival of Debate in Sheffield to explore how we can foster healthier democracies and build inclusive communities. 

In the face of the challenges the UK faces, we need a strong democracy. This event, co-hosted by Compass and Who is Your Neighbour? (WiYN?), invites you to a practical, solutions-driven session on how we can build a more democratic and connected society. We will focus on sharing experience and fighting for structural democratic reforms and building skills challenging anti-migrant narratives, drawing from WiYN?’s experience facilitating tough conversations in South Yorkshire on issues like race, immigration, and cultural change. Through structured discussions, participants will engage with both big-picture strategies and individual actions. You’ll leave with examples of how to have meaningful conversations that disrupt division and safeguard democracy.

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Who is Your Neighbour? holds conversations. Every conversation is different and unique because it is shaped by the people who join in. Sometimes, the conversations are troubling because WiYN? welcome difficult subjects like race, immigration and culture. These conversations take place across South Yorkshire in, around and in-between Barnsley, Doncaster, Sheffield and Rotherham. WiYN invite people to speak about their experiences and listen to others do the same. WiYN? invite people to share how things are for them, and how they are changing, in the places where they live and work.

Compass is the pressure group for a Good Society, a world that is much more equal, sustainable and democratic. We build alliances of ideas, parties and movements to help make systemic change happen. Our strategic focus is to understand, build, support, and accelerate new forms of democratic practice and collaborative action that are taking place in civil society and the economy, and to link those with state reforms and policy.