We work to raise the profile of integration, with policy recommendations to increase contact between people from different backgrounds.
We need to think about integration and social connection in a new way – refusing to divide people into ‘Them and Us’, whether that’s about migrants, ethnic minorities or British Muslims.
We put forward concrete ideas to make integration an ‘everybody’ issue, shaping a ‘New Us’ so we can all feel part of a country that is closer, kinder and more connected.
British Future is proud to be a founding member of the Together coalition, which works to bring people together and bridge divides, to help build a kinder, closer and more connected society. To inform Together’s work, British Future conducted ‘Talk/together‘, the UK’s biggest-ever conversation about what unites and divides us and what could bring us closer together. Nearly 160,000 people took part. For more information see www.together.org.uk
British Future is also the secretariat to the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Social Integration. Click here for more information on the APPG.
Date: 4 February 2022
Jill Rutter, an Associate Fellow at British Future, looks at the content of the new white paper on ‘Levelling up’, and what it could mean for integration
Date: 2 February 2022
Hong Kongers and those working to welcome them in the UK came together for the formal launch of the Welcoming Committee for Hong Kongers – which we are proud to be hosting at British Future.
Date: 29 November 2021
For integration and social connection, policy matters. A speech by British Future Director Sunder Katwala at the launch event for a new research report by the Belong Network.
Date: 27 October 2021
Businesses of all sizes, sectors and situations stepped up during the pandemic to help local communities. A new Social Integration APPG report asks whether this will continue and how business could contribute to the levelling-up of people and places.
Date: 27 October 2021
The upsurge in volunteering during the Covid-19 pandemic helped to connect people from different backgrounds and promote integration. This appetite for community action risks being lost without urgent policy action, warns a new APPG report.
Date: 5 October 2021
Communities and social infrastructure should be at the heart of the Levelling Up agenda, said the panel at this Conservative Party conference fringe, featuring Danny Kruger, PPS to Michael Gove at the Department for Levelling UP, Housing and Communities.
Date: 10 August 2021
Children must be taught the history of Britain’s imperial legacies if they are to understand the country they live in today, writes Dr Samir Puri, author of ‘The great imperial hangover’.
Date: 28 February 2021
The final report from the UK’s biggest-ever public survey of what unites and divides us – and what could bring us together as we emerge from the Covid Crisis – finds a society that pulled together, not apart, in response to the pandemic.
Date: 7 January 2021
Statues and social media were among the key themes raised in Talk/together discussions across the South West of England, writes Jake Puddle.
We’re delighted to be shortlisted for @SmartThinktank’s inaugural Think Tank of the Year Award 2025!
Proud to be recognised for our research, impact and contribution to the UK policy debate.
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Our @sundersays is on the @BBCRadio4 Today Debate with Amol Rajan tonight at 8pm, discussing “Has the UK given up on freedom of speech?”
Our @sundersays column for @easterneye this week on the Gaza peace deal, efforts to bolster UK community relations after the Manchester attack, and book-burning free speech advocates {1/2]
How can we help make workplaces fair and inclusive? At Labour & Conservative conferences, British Future (with @kpmguk) brought together politicians, business leaders & experts to explore how to unlock opportunity for all. Read more below [1/2]
Moment of reflection planned one week on from Manchester synagogue attack
Moment of reflection planned one week on from Manchester synagogue attack
Communities across the UK are being encouraged to hold vigils, light candles, or have moments of silence.
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"Are you representing an organisation here?", I asked a Muslim attendee. “I’m here as a Mancunian mate,’ he replied. “That’s what I’m representing.”
Our Avaes Mohammad's reflections from Friday's vigil in Manchester following the appalling Synagogue attack. [1/2]
The new 'Pride in Place' programme "fires the starting gun in Labour’s race to address the sense of national decline fuelling polarisation & populism," writes our @jakepuddle – but ministers should be wary of presenting it as a silver bullet to heal divides. [1/2]
Profile in @guardian today of our Director @sundersays, talking about British Future's work and immigration, race, prejudice, flags and patriotism – and why he's still optimistic about Britain
How do those working for fairness and inclusion in the workplace differentiate hostile backlash from legitimate critique and challenge?
If you’re at @Conservatives party conference today, join us to discuss (Midland Hotel, Trafford, 6pm)
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Farage refused to confirm whether Hong Kongers would be exempt from his plans to jettison ‘indefinite leave to remain’ (ILR) status.
Asked about those fleeing Beijing’s authoritarianism in the former city state, the Reform leader was unequivocal: ‘800,000 people are due to…
