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19 July 2025
Join Us at Our Next Coffee With Politics Morning
19 July - 10.00-12.30
Conerstone Community Centre
Booking essential
Poverty and its Impact on Democracy
Join us at our next coffee morning to explore poverty in the UK and its impact on democracy, and where our power lies.
Speaker: Andrea Cornwall, Professor of Global Development & Anthropology, Kings College London
A social anthropologist by training, Andrea Cornwall works on questions of rights and justice in relation to gender, sexuality, participation, democracy and development.
Additional speaker to be confirmed.
Click here to sign up to our Mailing List. We will send an announcement of the event in early July, with a link to book.
Click here to see meeting notes from previous Coffee Mornings - including Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation, The Economy, The Environment, and more.
Coming Events - Coffee with Politics Mornings
13 September 2025 So How's it Going Then? Reflecting on Labour's First 12 Months - Speakers: Mark Perryman and Mike Phipps (invited)
About Brighton and Hove Compass
Nationally and locally, Compass campaigns for the good society, one that is more equal, democratic, and sustainable. We believe that no single organisation or political party can create the good society. And that the main progressive parties have far more in common than differences. So, we need to develop new and radical collaborations to achieve a good society.
Brighton and Hove is an amazing creative and progressive place with a vibrant artistic, community and voluntary sector. A city with an great track record of campaigning that remains as alive as ever with Pride, Black Lives Matter and others. And we are fortunate to have a council with a progressive majority. But our city is also a place where wealth and extreme poverty, poor housing, low paid and seasonal work, and homelessness sit side by side so, when we re-launched our local Compass group in 2020, our priority was to support Brighton build back better after the pandemic. However, our local collaboration can only achieve so much without changing Britain’s centralised, short term and tribal political system. We believe that there are three key elements getting in the way:
- Our unfair electoral system
- Our tribal politics
- Our over centralised national and local political systems
We are exploring ideas, discussing issues and planning strategies. We do this at our bi-monthly coffee mornings and other events in Brighton and Hove.
B&H Compass needs your input
Over the coming 2-3 years, B&H Compass will be holding campaigning actions and conversations around the broad theme of democracy and power. Watch this space for more, or contact us on brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk if you have ideas or would like to get involved.
Brighton and Hove Compass is coordinated by a volunteer steering group of seven.
Join Compass here https://action.compassonline.org.uk/. And email us locally at brightonhove@compassonline.org.uk
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