Getting Started
If you are an individual or a local organisation interested in starting a Speakers’ Corner initiative in your community, this advice should help.
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Advice for Individuals
You want to start a Speakers' Corner initiative in your neighbourhood. There's just you. How do you get started? -
Developing a New Project – Key Stages for Local Organisations
The development of each project will vary according to local circumstances and the resources, both human and other, available to it. However, there are key stages which will be common to most projects and a number of tasks which promoters of local initiatives can expect to undertake. -
Creating a Speakers’ Corner Programme – Quick Steps
Quick steps to create or reinvigorate a Speakers' Corner project and programme.
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Freedom of Expression
"Freedom of expression is the cornerstone of democratic life. It is by the free exchange of ideas among citizens about how they should live together and how they should be governed that we create and sustain the democratic society. So the rights to free association and expression are scarcely less important than the right to live in peace and free from want."
Forum for Debate
SCT's online Forum for Debate provides a space for leading academics, campaigners and commentators to set out balanced arguments on key contemporary issues as a means of stimulating wider public debate about them.
Each debate is supplemented by an invaluable bibliography of further reading provided by the British Library.