Digital Dialogue

The Digital Dialogue programme reimagines the way that politicians engage with young people and schools.

About the programme

The Digital Dialogue programme supports teachers to deliver engaging workshops and connects students and politicians through video conferencing platforms.

The programme facilitates meaningful conversations that lead to tangible changes in communities. To learn more about the impact of the programme, read about Digital Dialogue’s impact.

Programme impact

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Worked with 200 teachers

8000

Supported 8000 young people

325

Worked with 325 politicians

“This is one of the best ways I could have spent an hour”

—Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester

How it works

Digital Dialogue takes four teaching hours to deliver; three hours of workshops followed by a one-hour Dialogue session. The programme is delivered as follows:

We train teachers to deliver the programme, supporting them to develop: confidence and skills to deliver non-partisan democratic education and develop best practice in supporting

A classroom full of students with a teacher speaking

Teachers use our resources to deliver three hours of workshops to their students. The resources support young people to explore social and political issues, research the politicians they will engage with and prepare questions for their Dialogue sessions.

We arrange and facilitate a Digital Dialogue session, connecting students with politicians via Teams, Zoom or a similar platform. We can also arrange in-person Dialogue sessions if the teachers prefer.

When a politician offers to do something on behalf of young people during a Dialogue we log it as a “Pledge”. We will then liaise with the politician and school to support the politician in fulfilling the pledge.

Read about some examples of pledges that have had an impact.

Sign up

To take part in the programme in England, Scotland or Northern Ireland, then you can sign up to our annual digital dialogue subscription (£295). If you are working in Wales you can access support for free through our Digital Dialogue: Wales programme.

This includes:

Personalised CPD and support to enable you and your colleagues to deliver the programme.

Two Digital Dialogue sessions (Additional Dialogue Sessions can be added to your subscription at £115 each.)

One-year access to our bank of resources (60+ hours of lesson material)

Early notification of special events and activities, such as our Digital Dialogue USA programme.

Interested?
You can sign up here!

This link will take you to an Expression of Interest form. It just takes 2 minutes to fill out, and one of our team will be in touch.

Expression of interest