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: 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.
Date: 4 December 2020
Jill Rutter reports from our discussions in Scotland as part of the Talk/together project.
Date: 27 November 2020
Unemployment and integration were top of mind throughout our talk/together discussions with people in the West Midlands, writes Jake Puddle.
Date: 20 November 2020
New research for Talk/together finds that people value community, neighbours and friends – as well, of course, as the NHS – for helping them through Covid.
Date: 19 November 2020
Jill Rutter reports from our Talk/together discussions in the North-east of England, where worries about jobs and the economy and distrust of politicians were tempered by community spirit and lockdown stoicism.
Date: 9 November 2020
COVID-19, food poverty, Brexit and housing were central themes of Talk/together discussions across the East of England, writes Jake Puddle.
Date: 16 October 2020
Sectarian politics, Brexit uncertainty, COVID-19 and economic worries dominated Talk/Together discussions in Northern Ireland.
Date: 15 October 2020
Londoners remained downbeat about Brexit divides while speaking fondly of a new sense of neighbourliness prompted by the Covid crisis, in our latest Talk/together discussions in the capital.
Date: 15 October 2020
In our first blog from the public and stakeholder conversations taking pace around the country for the Talk/together project, Jill Rutter says COVID-19 still dominates discussion of connection and division in local communities.
