Holding Hands circle (Photo: Colin Haynes)

Hope in the Cities is an international network of people committed to making a difference in the world. There is no official membership, and we welcome everyone who shares similar core values. HiC uses facilitated “honest conversation” dialogue, training and conferences as tools for finding solutions to the issues we face, both personal and societal. Hope in the Cities

• Invites everyone to explore their own responsibility on the basis of “what and not who is right”, believing that change in the world begins with personal transformation.
• Uses facilitated dialogue as a tool to search for ways to build trust and sustainable community development.
• Finds ways to develop creative links and real effective partnerships between all the sectors of society that seek positive change.
• Sustains and supports those people that take positions of courage in any sector or community.

Building community unity in inner city Nottingham
The day after street violence took place in the Nottingham inner city ward of St Ann’s on 7 August, community leader Maxine Cockett got on the phone to the leader of Nottingham City Council, Jon Collins in an effort to bring the community back together. The police station had been attacked and cars smashed in the violence in an area that suffers high youth unemployment.
12 September 2011

Community unity at eighth annual event in inner city Nottingham
Glorious sunshine welcomed the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Michael Wildgust, as he called a multiracial gathering to a time of quiet reflection on Robin Hood Chase. This followed heavy rain which had delayed the start of the eighth Holding Hands around St. Ann’s Unity Day on 16 July. The annual event grew out of Hope in the Cities Community Dialogues.
22 July 2011

Young Muslim Peacemaker programme launched in Parliament
Young British Muslims offered a contribution to the review of the Preventing Violent Extremism policy, with the launch of a ‘Learning to be a Peacemaker’ programme in Parliament on Tuesday 22 March before an audience including Members of both Houses of Parliament. Download this report in PDF
30 March 2011

Nottingham citizens commit to positive change
‘St Ann’s - the best place to live, work, play and socialise.’ This was the focus of an Honest Conversation Dialogue held at the Robin Hood Chase Neighbourhood Centre in the St Ann’s urban district of Nottingham on 20 March. Read article here.
27 April 2010

Hope for the homeless in South African township
Three British graduates with a passion for social change spent three weeks at the Ikhaya Labantu homeless shelter in Cape Town, South Africa, in January. Sabrina Jantuah, Derek Oakley and Jonathan Grayson were recruited by Phoebe Gill, director of Hope in the Cities UK. HiC UK has established a formal partnership with the residents of Ikhaya Labantu, in the impoverished township of Langa. Read article here.
7 April 2010

Honorary Fellowship Awarded to Two Initiatives of Change Workers
An honorary fellowship has been awarded to Gerald and Judith Henderson at Liverpool Hope University, for their  contributions to peace and reconciliation through their lifelong work internationally with Initiatives of Change and for their local work in Hope in the Cities and Asylum Link Merseyside. Read article here.
29 January 2009

Community Cohesion Training in St Ann's, Nottingham
The upskilling of local people in building bridges of trust across a diverse community is one of the aims of the Hope in the Cities Dialogue Group in Nottingham. In October they held a four-day training course at the Sycamore Community Centre on how to facilitate community dialogues. Read article here.
18 November 2008

Talks Give New Hope for Employment in Liverpool
City Council and Hope in the Cities conduct dialogue on creating diverse workforce. Read article here.
15 October 2007

Liverpool, Slavery Remembrance and the Reconciliation Triangle
Liverpool city hosted a series of events simultaneously in the last two weeks of August: the 800th anniversary of its charter; Slavery Remembrance Day; the opening of the city’s new International Slavery Museum; and the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Read article here.
7 September 2007